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Botany

Terms that are in relation to the study or science of plants.

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Paripinnate

Plants; Botany

Having an even number of pinnae by virtue of having a pair in the terminal position. Cf. Imparipinnate.

Imparipinnate

Plants; Botany

Having an uneven number of pinnae, by virtue of having one terminal pinna. Cf. Paripinnate.

Decussate

Plants; Botany

In pairs, with successive pairs borne at right angles to each other.

Syntepalum

Plants; Botany

In musaceae, a unilaterally split tube formed by the coherence of 3 sepals and 2 anterior petals in flowers of some species.

Calyptra

Plants; Botany

In mosses, a cap-like structure covering or partly covering the capsule and derived from the neck of the archegonium. (in a flower, = operculum).

Ternate

Plants; Botany

In groups of three; of leaves, arranged in whorls of three; of a single leaf, having the leaflets arranged in groups of three.

Sorus

Plants; Botany

In ferns, a discrete group of sporangia. Pl. Sori.

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