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Ovary

That part of the pistil which contains the seed, and in most flowering plants develops into the fruit. See Illust. of Flower.

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Gonad 76% connected

One of the masses of generative tissue primitively alike in both sexes, but giving rise to either an ovary or a testis; a generative gland; a germ gl…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Ovarian 74% connected

Alt. of Ovarial

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Ovarian 74% connected

Alt. of Ovarial

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Containing whole 3

Bloom 70% connected

A blossom; the flower of a plant; an expanded bud; flowers, collectively.

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Blossom 70% connected

The flower of a plant, or the essential organs of reproduction, with their appendages; florescence; bloom; the flowers of a plant, collectively; as,…

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Flower 70% connected

In the popular sense, the bloom or blossom of a plant; the showy portion, usually of a different color, shape, and texture from the foliage.

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Placenta 70% connected

The vascular appendage which connects the fetus with the parent, and is cast off in parturition with the afterbirth.

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Ascomycete noun · 85% connection

any fungus of the class Ascomycetes (or subdivision Ascomycota) in which the spores are formed inside an ascus

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Ascomycetous fungus noun · 85% connection

any fungus of the class Ascomycetes (or subdivision Ascomycota) in which the spores are formed inside an ascus

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Aspergillus fumigatus noun · 85% connection

a mold causing aspergillosis in birds and man

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Basidiomycete noun · 85% connection

any of various fungi of the subdivision Basidiomycota

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Basidiomycetous fungi noun · 85% connection

any of various fungi of the subdivision Basidiomycota

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Bird's-nest fungus noun · 85% connection

any of various fungi of the family Nidulariaceae having a cup-shaped body containing several egg-shaped structure enclosing the spores

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Black root rot fungus noun · 85% connection

fungus causing black root rot in apples

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Blastomycete noun · 85% connection

any of various yeastlike budding fungi of the genus Blastomyces; cause disease in humans and other animals

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Bottom rot fungus noun · 85% connection

fungus causing bottom rot in lettuce

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Brown root rot fungus noun · 85% connection

fungus causing brown root rot in plants of the pea and potato and cucumber families

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Candida noun · 85% connection

any of the yeastlike imperfect fungi of the genus Candida

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Carrion fungus noun · 85% connection

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Ceratostomella ulmi noun · 85% connection

fungus causing Dutch elm disease

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Cercospora kopkei noun · 85% connection

fungus causing yellow spot (a sugarcane disease in Australia)

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Chinese black mushroom noun · 85% connection

edible east Asian mushroom having a golden or dark brown to blackish cap and an inedible stipe

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Claviceps purpurea noun · 85% connection

a fungus that infects various cereal plants forming compact black masses of branching filaments that replace many grains of the plant;…

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Clubroot fungus noun · 85% connection

a fungus resembling slime mold that causes swellings or distortions of the roots of cabbages and related plants

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Coffee fungus noun · 85% connection

fungus causing a disease in coffee and some other tropical plants

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Achenium noun · 78% connection

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

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Archegonium noun · 78% connection

The pistillidium or female organ in the higher cryptogamic plants, corresponding to the pistil in flowering plants.

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Bisexual adjective · 78% connection

Of both sexes; hermaphrodite; as a flower with stamens and pistil, or an animal having ovaries and testes.

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Carpel noun · 78% connection

a simple pistil or one element of a compound pistil

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Carpellum noun · 78% connection

A simple pistil or single-celled ovary or seed vessel, or one of the parts of a compound pistil, ovary, or seed vessel. See Illust of…

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Caryopsis noun · 78% connection

A one-celled, dry, indehiscent fruit, with a thin membranous pericarp, adhering closely to the seed, so that fruit and seed are incorp…

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Cenanthy noun · 78% connection

The absence or suppression of the essential organs (stamens and pistil) in a flower.

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Clematis noun · 78% connection

A genus of flowering plants, of many species, mostly climbers, having feathery styles, which greatly enlarge in the fruit; -- called a…

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Develop verb · 78% connection

To go through a process of natural evolution or growth, by successive changes from a less perfect to a more perfect or more highly org…

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Dichogamy noun · 78% connection

The condition of certain species of plants, in which the stamens and pistil do not mature simultaneously, so that these plants can nev…

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Dicot family noun · 78% connection

family of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination

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Dicot genus noun · 78% connection

genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination

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