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Peduncle

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

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Growth 76% connected

The process of growing; the gradual increase of an animal or a vegetable body; the development from a seed, germ, or root, to full size or maturity;…

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Pathway 76% connected

A footpath; a beaten track; any path or course. Also used figuratively.

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Scape 76% connected

A peduncle rising from the ground or from a subterranean stem, as in the stemless violets, the bloodroot, and the like.

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Tract 76% connected

A written discourse or dissertation, generally of short extent; a short treatise, especially on practical religion.

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Pedicel 76% 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…

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Pedicle 76% connected

Same as Pedicel.

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Forebrain 70% connected

The anterior of the three principal divisions of the brain, including the prosencephalon and thalamencephalon. Sometimes restricted to the prosenceph…

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Prosencephalon 70% connected

The anterior segment of the brain, including the cerebrum and olfactory lobes; the forebrain.

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Angiosperm noun · 86% connection

plants having seeds in a closed ovary

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Annual noun · 86% connection

(botany) a plant that completes its entire life cycle within the space of a year

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Apophysis noun · 86% connection

(botany) a natural swelling or enlargement: at the base of the stalk or seta in certain mosses or on the cone scale of certain conifers

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Bast noun · 86% connection

(botany) tissue that conducts synthesized food substances (e.g., from leaves) to parts where needed; consists primarily of sieve tubes

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Biennial noun · 86% connection

(botany) a plant having a life cycle that normally takes two seasons from germination to death to complete; flowering biennials usuall…

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Blister noun · 86% connection

(botany) a swelling on a plant similar to that on the skin

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Callus noun · 86% connection

(botany) an isolated thickening of tissue, especially a stiff protuberance on the lip of an orchid

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Calyx noun · 86% connection

(botany) the whorl of sepals of a flower collectively forming the outer floral envelope or layer of the perianth enclosing and support…

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Coma noun · 86% connection

(botany) a usually terminal tuft of bracts (as in the pineapple) or tuft of hairs (especially on certain seeds)

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Corolla noun · 86% connection

(botany) the whorl of petals of a flower that collectively form an inner floral envelope or layer of the perianth; "we cultivate the f…

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Corona noun · 86% connection

(botany) the trumpet-shaped or cup-shaped outgrowth of the corolla of a daffodil or narcissus flower

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Embryo noun · 86% connection

(botany) a minute rudimentary plant contained within a seed or an archegonium

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Fern noun · 86% connection

any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward; reproduce by s…

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Flowering plant noun · 86% connection

plants having seeds in a closed ovary

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Germ tube noun · 86% connection

(botany) a slender tubular outgrowth from a spore in germination

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Leaf node noun · 86% connection

(botany) the small swelling that is the part of a plant stem from which one or more leaves emerge

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Ligule noun · 86% connection

(botany) any appendage to a plant that is shaped like a strap

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Lip noun · 86% connection

(botany) either of the two parts of a bilabiate corolla or calyx

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Anthotaxy noun · 78% connection

The arrangement of flowers in a cluster; the science of the relative position of flowers; inflorescence.

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Blossom noun · 78% connection

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

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Bract noun · 78% connection

Any modified leaf, or scale, on a flower stalk or at the base of a flower.

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Bractlet noun · 78% connection

A bract on the stalk of a single flower, which is itself on a main stalk that support several flowers.

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Branch noun · 78% connection

a division of a stem, or secondary stem arising from the main stem of a plant

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Bud noun · 78% connection

A small protuberance on the stem or branches of a plant, containing the rudiments of future leaves, flowers, or stems; an undeveloped…

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Bulb noun · 78% connection

A spheroidal body growing from a plant either above or below the ground (usually below), which is strictly a bud, consisting of a clus…

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Corymb noun · 78% connection

Any flattish flower cluster, whatever be the order of blooming, or a similar shaped cluster of fruit.

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Crown-imperial noun · 78% connection

A spring-blooming plant (Fritillaria imperialis) of the Lily family, having at the top of the stalk a cluster of pendent bell-shaped f…

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Cucumber noun · 78% connection

A creeping plant, and its fruit, of several species of the genus Cucumis, esp. Cucumis sativus, the unripe fruit of which is eaten eit…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: stem, stalk, supports, flower, fruit.
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Cyme noun · 78% connection

more or less flat-topped cluster of flowers in which the central or terminal flower opens first

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Differentiation noun · 78% connection

The gradual formation or production of organs or parts by a process of evolution or development, as when the seed develops the root an…

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