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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heterosporous

Plants; Flowers

Producing two different sizes or kinds of spores. These may come from the same or different sporangia, and may produce similar or different gametophytes.

herb

Biology; Flowers

Generally any plant which does not produce wood, and is therefore not as large as a tree or shrub, is considered to be an herb.

heterosporangiate

Plants; Flowers

Producing two different kinds of sporangia, specifically microsporangia and megasporangia. Compare with heterosporous.

pteridophyte

Plants; Flowers

Plant in which the sporophyte generation is the larger phase and in which the gametophyte lives an existence independent of its parent sporophyte. Pteridophytes are almost all vascular plants, and ...

pollinia

Plants; Flowers

A mass of fused pollen produced by many orchids.

protostele

Plants; Flowers

When a plant's vascular tissue develops in a solid central bundle, it is said to have a protostele.

pollination

Biology; Flowers

Process of transferring the pollen from its place of production to the place where the egg cell is produced. This may be accomplished by the use of wind, water, insects, birds, bats, or other means. ...