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Fruit

Plants; Botany

The seed-bearing structure in an angiosperm, formed from the ovary after flowering.

Resupinate

Plants; Botany

Twisted through 180°, e.g. As with the ovary of most Orchidaceae.

Bilabiate

Plants; Botany

Two-lipped, e.g. Of a corolla in which fusion of an anterior group and a posterior group of petals extends beyond the top of the corolla tube.

Simple

Plants; Botany

Undivided; of a leaf, not divided into leaflets; of a hair or an inflorescence, not branched.

Locule

Plants; Botany

Usually refers to a chamber within an ovary (gynoecium or carpel of the flower and fruits). Depending on the number of locules in the ovary, carpels and fruits can be classified as uni-locular, ...

Indefinite

Plants; Botany

Variable in number; numerous; of stamens, more than twice as many as the petals or sepals; of an inflorescence, not terminating in a flower (i.e. Having a continuing, terminal growing point).

Procumbent

Plants; Botany

Trailing or spreading along the ground but not rooting at the nodes. Cf. Adventitious, runner, stolon.

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