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Botany

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

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Botany

Capitate

Plants; Botany

Of an inflorescence, with the flowers unstalked and aggregate into a dense cluster; of a stigma, globose, like the head of a pin.

Unilocular

Plants; Botany

Of an ovary, anther or fruit, having only one internal cavity.

Favulariate

Plants; Botany

Of a surface, finely ribbed, the ribs separated by zig-zag furrows.

Viscid

Plants; Botany

Of a surface, sticky; coated with a thick, syrupy secretion.

Pantoporate

Plants; Botany

Of a pollen grain, with rounded apertures all over the surface.

Colporate

Plants; Botany

Of a pollen grain, having both an elongated and a rounded aperture. Cf. Porate.

Pedate

Plants; Botany

Of a palmate or palmately-lobed leaf, having the lateral segments divided again.

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