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Botany

Medifixed
Plants; Botany

Attached by or at the middle, e.g. Of anthers, attached to the filament at the middle of the connective.

Spike
Plants; Botany

An unbranched, indeterminate inflorescence in which the flowers are without stalks. Adj. Spicate.

Herb
Plants; Botany

Any vascular plant that never produces a woody stem. Cf. Forb.

Hypogynous
Plants; Botany

Arising below the level of insertion of the ovary (often applied, loosely, to a flower in which the sepals, petals and stamens are inserted below the ovary). Cf. Perigynous, epigynous.

Adventitious
Plants; Botany

Arising in abnormal positions, e.g. Roots arising from the shoot system, buds arising elsewhere than in axils of leaves.

Didymous
Plants; Botany

Borne in pairs; of anthers, having two lobes, with scarcely any tissue connecting them.

Digitate
Plants; Botany

Branching from the axis or stalk like the fingers of a hand.

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