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Botany

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

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Botany

Aerenchyma

Plants; Botany

Tissue incorporating large, gas-filled spaces interspersed with the cells in a characteristic pattern.

Tunic

Plants; Botany

Thin membranous or fibrous outer layers of a bulb or corm.

Chaff

Plants; Botany

Thin, membranous scales or bracts; thin, dry unfertilised ovules among the fully developed seeds of a fruit.

Incrassate

Plants; Botany

Thickened; of a pollen grain, with thickened margins around the apertures.

Pachycaul

Plants; Botany

Thick-stemmed, not `twiggy' (unbranched, or the branches few and thick).

Gynostemium

Plants; Botany

The upper part of an awn in grasses, when distinctly different in form from the lower part; (=column)

Tepal

Plants; Botany

A perianth segment in a flower in which all the perianth segments are similar in appearance.

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