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Rootstock

A perennial underground stem, producing leafly s/ems or flower stems from year to year; a rhizome.

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Stalk 76% connected

The stem or main axis of a plant; as, a stalk of wheat, rye, or oats; the stalks of maize or hemp.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Stem 76% connected

Alt. of Steem

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Stock 76% connected

The stem, or main body, of a tree or plant; the fixed, strong, firm part; the trunk.

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Rhizome 92% connected

A rootstock. See Rootstock.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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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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Anemia adiantifolia noun · 78% connection

fern of Florida and West Indies and Central America with rhizome densely clad in grown hairs

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: perennial, underground, stem, producing, leafly.
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Asparagus noun · 78% connection

A genus of perennial plants belonging to the natural order Liliaceae, and having erect much branched stems, and very slender branchlet…

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Bissextile noun · 78% connection

Leap year; every fourth year, in which a day is added to the month of February on account of the excess of the tropical year (365 d. 5…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: perennial, underground, stem, producing, leafly.
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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…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: perennial, underground, stem, producing, leafly.
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Bulb noun · 78% connection

a modified bud consisting of a thickened globular underground stem serving as a reproductive structure

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: perennial, underground, stem, producing, leafly.
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Bush noun · 78% connection

a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: perennial, underground, stem, producing, leafly.
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Caudex noun · 78% connection

The stem of a tree., esp. a stem without a branch, as of a palm or a tree fern; also, the perennial rootstock of an herbaceous plant.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: perennial, underground, stem, producing, leafly.
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Caulocarpous adjective · 78% connection

Having stems which bear flowers and fruit year after year, as most trees and shrubs.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: perennial, underground, stem, producing, leafly.
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Corm noun · 78% connection

solid swollen underground bulb-shaped stem or stem base and serving as a reproductive structure

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: perennial, underground, stem, producing, leafly.
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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…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: perennial, underground, stem, producing, leafly.
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Dove plant unknown · 78% connection

A Central American orchid (Peristeria elata), having a flower stem five or six feet high, with numerous globose white fragrant flowers…

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