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Pedicle

Same as Pedicel.

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Peduncle 76% connected

The stem or stalk that supports the flower or fruit of a plant, or a cluster of flowers or fruits.

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Ray 76% connected

To array.

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Pedicel 92% connected

A stalk which supports one flower or fruit, whether solitary or one of many ultimate divisions of a common peduncle. See Peduncle, and Illust. of Flo…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Adventitious root noun · 78% connection

root growing in an unusual location e.g. from a stem

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Apomict noun · 78% connection

a plant that reproduces or is reproduced by apomixis

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Archespore noun · 78% connection

primitive cell or group of cells from which a mother cell develops

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Archesporium noun · 78% connection

primitive cell or group of cells from which a mother cell develops

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Arthrospore noun · 78% connection

a body that resembles a spore but is not an endospore; produced by some bacteria

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Autophyte noun · 78% connection

plant capable of synthesizing its own food from simple organic substances

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Autophytic plant noun · 78% connection

plant capable of synthesizing its own food from simple organic substances

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Autotrophic organism noun · 78% connection

plant capable of synthesizing its own food from simple organic substances

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Briarroot noun · 78% connection

hard woody root of the briar Erica arborea

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Button snakeroot noun · 78% connection

any of various North American plants of the genus Liatris having racemes or panicles of small discoid flower heads

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Chicory root noun · 78% connection

the dried root of the chicory plant: used as a coffee substitute

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Cocoyam noun · 78% connection

edible starchy tuberous root of taro plants

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Corn silk noun · 78% connection

each of the long filamentous styles that grow as a silky tuft at the tip of an ear of Indian corn

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Cornsilk noun · 78% connection

each of the long filamentous styles that grow as a silky tuft at the tip of an ear of Indian corn

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Cultivar noun · 78% connection

a variety of a plant developed from a natural species and maintained under cultivation

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Dasheen noun · 78% connection

edible starchy tuberous root of taro plants

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Daughter cell noun · 78% connection

a cell formed by the division or budding of another cell; "anthrax grows by dividing into two daughter cells that are generally identi…

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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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Apophysis noun · 78% connection

An enlargement at the top of a pedicel or stem, as seen in certain mosses.

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Basigynium noun · 78% connection

The pedicel on which the ovary of certain flowers, as the passion flower, is seated; a carpophore or thecaphore.

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Ebracteolate adjective · 78% connection

Without bracteoles, or little bracts; -- said of a pedicel or flower stalk.

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Footstalk noun · 78% connection

The stalk of a leaf or of flower; a petiole, pedicel, or reduncle.

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Gynophore noun · 78% connection

The pedicel raising the pistil or ovary above the stamens, as in the passion flower.

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Lucernaria noun · 78% connection

A genus of acalephs, having a bell-shaped body with eight groups of short tentacles around the margin. It attaches itself by a sucker…

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Meconidium noun · 78% connection

A kind of gonophore produced by hydroids of the genus Gonothyraea. It has tentacles, and otherwise resembles a free medusa, but remain…

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Pedicellaria noun · 78% connection

A peculiar forcepslike organ which occurs in large numbers upon starfishes and echini. Those of starfishes have two movable jaws, or b…

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Pedicellate adjective · 78% connection

Having a pedicel; supported by a pedicel.

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Pedicellina noun · 78% connection

A genus of Bryozoa, of the order Entoprocta, having a bell-shaped body supported on a slender pedicel. See Illust. under Entoprocta.

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Pedicule noun · 78% connection

A pedicel.

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Receptacle noun · 78% connection

The dilated apex of a pedicel which serves as a common support to a head of flowers.

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Seta noun · 78% connection

Any slender, more or less rigid, bristlelike organ or part; as the hairs of a caterpillar, the slender spines of a crustacean, the hai…

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Sphaeridium noun · 78% connection

A peculiar sense organ found upon the exterior of most kinds of sea urchins, and consisting of an oval or sherical head surmounting a…

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Sphex noun · 78% connection

Any one of numerous species of sand wasps of the genus Sphex and allied genera. These wasps have the abdomen attached to the thorax by…

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Stalk noun · 78% connection

The petiole, pedicel, or peduncle, of a plant.

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Stem noun · 78% connection

A little branch which connects a fruit, flower, or leaf with a main branch; a peduncle, pedicel, or petiole; as, the stem of an apple…

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Trachelidan noun · 78% connection

Any one of a tribe of beetles (Trachelides) which have the head supported on a pedicel. The oil beetles and the Cantharides are exampl…

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