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Botany

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

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Botany

Host

Plants; Botany

An organism on which a parasite lives and by which it is nourished (also applied, loosely, to a plant supporting an epiphyte).

Rotate

Plants; Botany

Circular and flattened, e.g. Of a corolla with a very short tube and spreading lobes.

Helicoid

Plants; Botany

Coiled; of a cymose inflorescence, branching repeatedly on the same side.

Concolorous

Plants; Botany

Coloured uniformly; the same colour on both sides. Cf. Discolorous.

Polyphyletic

Plants; Botany

Composed of members that originated, independently, from more than one evolutionary line. Cf. Monophyletic.

Basal

Plants; Botany

At the base; of a placenta, at the base of the ovary.

Basifixed

Plants; Botany

Attached at or by the base, e.g. Of anthers, by the base of the connective.

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