Arts & crafts

Arts & crafts

Arts & crafts comprises a multitude of activities and hobbies that involve making things with one's hands, usually from scratch. They can be sub-divided into 'handicrafts'( or traditional crafts ) that are fashioned in an old style using long practised techniques, and the rest which are more modern inventions that have become recent trends or fads.

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axil

Plants; Flowers

The angle formed between a leaf stalk and the stem to which it is attached. In flowering plants, buds develop in the axils of leaves.

bipinnate

Plants; Flowers

Describing a pinnate leaf in which the leaflets themselves are further subdivided in a pinnate fashion.

bisporangiate

Plants; Flowers

When a flower or cone produces both megaspores and microspores, it is said to be bisporangiate. Most flowers are bisporangiate.

blade

Biology; Flowers

Any broad and flattened region of a plant or alga, which allows for increased photosynthetic surface area.

bract

Biology; Flowers

Any reduced leaf-like structure associated with a cone or flower.

bryophyte

Plants; Flowers

Plants in which the gametophyte generation is the larger, persistent phase; they generally lack conducting tissues. Bryophytes include the Hepaticophyta (liverworts), ...