Omphalode: alternatives and connections

A small, dry, indehiscent fruit, containing a single seed, as in the buttercup; -- called a naked seed by the earlier botanists.

A vessel, cell, duct, or tube containing or conducting air; as the air vessels of insects, birds, plants, etc.; the air vessel of a pu…

Nourishing matter stored up within the integuments of the seed in many plants, but not incorporated in the embryo. It is the floury pa…

Having the ovule inverted at an early period in its development, so that the chalaza is as the apparent apex; -- opposed to orthotropo…

At the extremity most remote from the hilum, as the embryo, or inverted with respect to the seed, as the radicle.

The stem; the central part, or longitudinal support, on which organs or parts are arranged; the central line of any body.

An excrescence or appendage surrounding or near the hilum of a seed.

of Chalaza

Of or pertaining to the chalaza.

of Chalaza

Same as Chalaza.

(biology) the growing of microorganisms in a nutrient medium (such as gelatin or agar); "the culture of cells in a Petri dish"

a more intense El Nino that occurs every few years when the welling up of cold nutrient-rich water does not occur; kills plankton and…

When too many nutrients enter water and disrupt its ecosystem.

The navigable part of a river, bay, etc., through which vessels enter or depart; the part of a harbor or channel ehich is kept open an…

Originally, a vessel of the Mediterranean propelled by sails and by oars. The French, about 1650, transferred the name to larger vesse…

Having the raphe terminating about half way between the chalaza and the orifice; amphitropous; -- said of an ovule.

Of or pertaining to a hilum.