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Botany

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

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Botany

Ovuliferous

Plants; Botany

Bearing ovules (e.g. Applied to scales in a megasporangiate cone in gymnosperms).

Floccose

Plants; Botany

Bearing tufts of soft hairs or wool which tend to rub off and adhere in small masses.

Corniculate

Plants; Botany

Bearing, or terminating in, one or more small horns.

Intrapetiolar

Plants; Botany

Between a petiole and the subtending stem. Cf. Interpetiolar.

Hermaphrodite

Plants; Botany

Bisexual, having both pistils and stamens in the same flower.

Glaucous

Plants; Botany

Blue-green in colour, with a whitish bloom (as in the juvenile leaves of many eucalypts).

Obtuse

Plants; Botany

Blunt or rounded at the apex, the converging edges separated by an angle greater than 90 degrees.

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