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Endocarp
Plants; Botany

The innermost layer of the wall of a fruit; in a drupe, the stony layer surrounding the seed.

Megasporangium
Plants; Botany

The larger of the two kinds of sporangia produced in the sexual life cycle of a heterosporous plant.

Cernuus, cernua, cernuum
Plants; Botany

Of flowers, nodding; neither vertically upright nor pendulous, but usually inclined slightly down from the horizontal.

Cleistogamous
Plants; Botany

Of flowers, self-pollinating and setting fertile seed but never opening.

Anterior
Plants; Botany

Of floral organs, on the side of the flower farthest from the axis. Cf. Posterior.

Cyclic
Plants; Botany

Of floral organs, several borne at the same level on the axis; whorled. Cf. Spiral.

Epigynous
Plants; Botany

Of floral parts (especially stamens), attached above the level of insertion of the ovary, and arising from tissue that is fused to the ovary wall. Cf. Hypogynous, perigynous.

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