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Botany

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

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Interrupted

Plants; Botany

Of an inflorescence, having the flowers unevenly distributed along the axis, with conspicuous gaps.

Porate

Plants; Botany

Of a pollen grain, with rounded apertures only. Cf. Colporate.

Perfoliate

Plants; Botany

Of a sessile leaf or bract, having its base completely wrapped around the stem.

Extravaginal

Plants; Botany

Of a shoot, arising from an axillary bud which breaks through the sheath of the subtending leaf.

Gynobasic

Plants; Botany

Of a style, arising near the base of the gynoecium, e.g. Between the lobes of the ovary.

Moniliform

Plants; Botany

Contracted at short regular intervals like a string of beads.

Hoary

Plants; Botany

Covered with a greyish layer of very short, closely interwoven hairs.

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