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Horticulture

Of or pertaining to the business, science, and technology of intensely cultivating plants for the use of humans.

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Clasping

Plants; Horticulture

A stalkless leaf, with the base partly surrounding the stem.

Ciliate

Plants; Horticulture

With short fine hairs as on a leaf or petal margin.

Cleft

Plants; Horticulture

Divided to or about the middle into divisions.

Epidermis

Plants; Horticulture

The epidermal tissues are the single layers of cells on the upper and lower surfaces of a leaf. The ordinary epidermal cells are tightly packed and colorless. They serve as a protection of the ...

Epiphyte

Plants; Horticulture

A plant that grows in the air or on another plant but gets its nourishment from the air and rainfall. A plant growing on another without being a parasite or on a rock or tree trunk.

Espalier

Plants; Horticulture

Any plant trained lattice fashion in one plane; woody plant trained in a lattice-like or fence-like pattern on some support.

Erosion

Plants; Horticulture

The wearing away, washing away, or removal of soil by wind, water or human activity.

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