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Botany

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

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Botany

Perisperm

Plants; Botany

Nutritive tissue in an angiosperm seed, formed from the nucellus. Cf. Endosperm.

Ray

Plants; Botany

A zygomorphic flower in asteraceae; a radial band of cells traversing the conducting elements in woody stems.

Asexual

Plants; Botany

Not forming part of a cycle which involves fertilisation and meiosis.

Introduced

Plants; Botany

Not indigenous; not native to the area in which it now occurs. Cf. Adventive.

Proximal

Plants; Botany

Near to the point of origin or attachment. Cf. Distal.

Raphides

Plants; Botany

Needle-like crystals that occur in bundles in the vacuoles of some plant cells.

Tetradynamous

Plants; Botany

Of an androecium, consisting of four stamens of the same length and two of a different length.

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