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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microspore

Plants; Flowers

In plants which are heterosporous, the smaller kind of spore is called a microspore; it usually germinates into a male (sperm-producing) gametophyte.

mycorrhizae

Plants; Flowers

Symbiotic association between a fungus and the roots or rhizoids of a plant.

merophytes

Plants; Flowers

Group of cells which have all been produced from the same initial cell. Leaves and stems in particular are often built from specific patterns of merophytes.

microphyll

Plants; Flowers

A kind of leaf, specifically one which has a single, unbranched vein in it. Microphylls are only found in the lycophytes.

meristem

Plants; Flowers

Group of undifferentiated cells from which new tissues are produced. Most plants have apical meristems which give rise to the primary tissues of plants, and some have secondary meristems which add ...