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Botany

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

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Botany

Pustulate

Plants; Botany

Covered with small pustule- or blister-like elevations.

Colliculate

Plants; Botany

Covered with small, rounded or hillock-like elevations (colliculae).

Monotypic

Plants; Botany

Containing only one taxon of the next lower rank (e.g. Applied to a family containing only one genus). Cf. Polytypic.

Incurved

Plants; Botany

Bent or curved inwards or upwards; of leaf margins, curved towards the adaxial surface.

Baccate

Plants; Botany

Berry-like; of seeds, having a succulent or pulpy testa; of fruits, having the seeds embedded in pulp.

Parietal

Plants; Botany

Attached to the margins of a structure; of placentation, having the ovules attached to placentas on the wall of the ovary.

Bisexual

Plants; Botany

Bearing both male and female organs together, e.g. On the same gametophyte or in the same flower.

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