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Botany

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

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Botany

Fimbriate

Plants; Botany

Of a margin, fringed with long slender hair-like processes (fimbriae).

Obcordate

Plants; Botany

Of a leaf blade, broad and notched at the tip; heart-shaped but attached at the pointed end. Cf. Cordate.

Oblique

Plants; Botany

Of a leaf or leaflet, larger on one side of the midrib than on the other, i.e. Asymmetrical.

Lanceolate

Plants; Botany

Of a leaf, about four times as long as it is broad, broadest in the lower half and tapering towards the tip.

Unifoliolate

Plants; Botany

Of a leaf, basically compound, but reduced to only one leaflet.

Ventral

Plants; Botany

Of a lateral organ, facing towards the subtending axis; of a thallus, facing towards the substratum. Cf. Dorsal.

Cordate

Plants; Botany

Of a leaf blade, broad and notched at the base; heart-shaped.

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