Flowers

Flowers

Of or realting to the reproductive part of a flowering plant. The flower facilitates the unification of sperm and eggs. Also, flowers are used by humans as decoration, romance, ritual, religion, medicine, and food source.

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pinnately compound

Plants; Flowers

Leaves which are divided up like a feather are said to be pinnately compound.

phytomelanin

Plants; Flowers

A papery "sooty" black layer over the seed of plants in the Asparagales, which includes agaves, aloes, onions and hyacinths.

pistil

Biology; Flowers

The central set of organs in a flower.

phloem

Plants; Flowers

Nutrient-conducting tissue of vascular plants.

megaspore

Plants; Flowers

In plants which are heterosporous, the larger kind of spore is called a megaspore; it usually germinates into a female (egg-producing) gametophyte.

rhizoid

Plants; Flowers

A cellular outgrowth of a plant that usually aids in anchoring to the surface and increasing surface area to acquire water or nutrients; found in mosses, liverworts, and hornworts.

rhizome

Biology; Flowers

A horizontal underground stem, such as found in many ferns, where only the leaves may stick up into the air; sphenophytes (horsetails and their relatives) spread via rhizomes, but also produce erect ...