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

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Polytypic

Plants; Botany

Containing more than one taxon of the next lower rank. Cf. Monotypic.

Carpel

Plants; Botany

An organ at the centre of a flower, bearing one or more ovules and having its margins fused together or with other carpels to enclose the ovule(s) in an ovary, and consisting also of a stigma and ...

Cyme

Plants; Botany

An inflorescence in which each flower, in turn, is formed at the tip of a growing axis and further flowers are formed on branches arising below it.

Rhipidium

Plants; Botany

An inflorescence of cymose units, the lateral branches developed alternately in opposite directions.

Cyathium

Plants; Botany

An inflorescence of unisexual flowers surrounded by involucral bracts, as in euphorbia.

Hybrid

Plants; Botany

An offspring of genetically different parents (in a flora, usually applied where the parents are of different species).

Ostiole

Plants; Botany

An opening or pore, e.g.(in moraceae) at the apex of a fig, or (in fungi and lichens) at the apex of a perithecium. Adj. Ostiolar, ostiolate.

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