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(chemistry) Relating to the common wormwood or to an acid obtained from it.
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(botany) A cryptogam; a plant of the obsolete taxonomic class Cryptogamia, having neither stamina nor pistils, and therefore no proper flowers, such as an alga, fern, fungus, lichen or moss.
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Alternative spelling of anastomose [(botany, mycology) Joined or run together; interconnected.]
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An organism that has this colouration
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(botany) Having no root: applied to parasitical plants which have no root, but adhere to other plants by any part of their surface, and derive their nourishment from them; also to mosses and Hepaticœ which are destitute of rhizoids.
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(biology) Any plant belonging to the former class Arthrophyta (now Equisetopsida); the horsetails
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(botany, UK) A plant of special interest to botanists.
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Alternative spelling of aetheogam [(botany) A cryptogam; a plant of the obsolete taxonomic class Cryptogamia, having neither stamina nor pistils, and therefore no proper flowers, such as an alga, fern, fungus, lichen or moss.]
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(lichenology) Any lichen in the genus Toninia.
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Relating to, or exhibiting, camptocormia.
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(botany) having chlorophyll and, hence, able to engage in photosynthesis
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(botany) Any plant that grows in rock fissures or crevices.
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(now informal, botany) Any plant having a proper stem or axis of growth, which is distinct from its leaves, phyllophyte
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hypothetical seeds or spores that led to the beginning of life, said to have reached Earth through space
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(botany) Any member of the subkingdom Embryophyta, which includes most land plants
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(botany, of lichen) having the thallus growing within (rather than upon) the bark of trees
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Relating to framboids.
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Any organism (typically a bacterium) that selectively inhabits a fungus.
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Resembling or characteristic of fungus.
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readily staining with gentian violet.
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(biology) The production by plants of diaspores within the soil.
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A cellular structure, growing into or around another structure to absorb water or nutrients, such as a cotyledon.
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Alternative spelling of lichenization [(lichenology) The process by which a fungus becomes a mycobiont of a lichen.]
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Alternative form of lichenized [(mycology, of a fungus) Adapted to live as a symbiont in a lichen.]
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(lichenology) The process by which a fungus becomes a mycobiont of a lichen.
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(biology) A relatively large heterotrophic consumer
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(biology) Any lichen that has a large thallus, often resulting in a bushy appearance.
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Resembling, or pertaining to, the genus Madrepora.
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Rhizocarpon geographicum, a lichen that grows in patches on rocks in mountainous areas, giving the appearance of a map.
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Any phanerophyte (tree) having a height greater then about 30 metres.
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(biology) Any plant having an unbranched stem or trunk and a crown of large leaves
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(botany) Of or relating to a meristele.
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(botany) Any of a group of cells, typically in a leaf or stem, produced from the same initial cell
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(biology, botany) All multicellular plants, of the subkingdom Embryophyta.
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(botany) Any multicellular plant
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Any lichen with a very small thallus, resulting in a two-dimensional appearance.
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(botany) In seed-bearing plants, a small opening in the integuments of the ovule through which sperm are able to access the ovum.
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Any animal microorganism
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(lichenology) The fungus that is a component of a lichen
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Of relating to a phlyctena.
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Relating to a phyllodium.
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(obsolete, botany) A parasitic flowering plant, all of which were formerly assigned to the order Rhizantheae.
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(botany) Having perennial rootstocks or bulbs, but annual flowering stems; said of all perennial herbs.
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The fossilised form of a tree root
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(botany) Having the nature or habit of a rhizome or rootstock.
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(botany) A horizontal, underground stem of some plants that sends out roots and shoots (scions) from its nodes.
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(botany) The structure bearing the true roots in certain species of Selaginella.
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(botany) Any vascular plant that has roots
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(biology) The rhizoid of a vascular plant; a tubular outgrowth of a trichoblast, a hair-forming cell on the epidermis of a plant root.
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Alternative form of root hair [(biology) The rhizoid of a vascular plant; a tubular outgrowth of a trichoblast, a hair-forming cell on the epidermis of a plant root.]
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(botany) Synonym of rhizome
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(dated, biology) Any of a class of primitive organisms that reproduce solely by fission.
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(obsolete) An organism thought to be intermediate between plants and animals; a zoophyte.
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Pertaining to sericulture
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(biology) That condition of being straminicolous
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(biology) Any of a very large group of organisms, of the division Streptophytina, which includes the green algae and most other plants.
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(botany) The production of young tubers from the old while still growing.
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(botany) Growth in which lateral branches develop from a lateral meristem, without the formation of a bud or period of dormancy, when the lateral meristem is split from a terminal meristem.
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(botany) Any of very many primitive plants that consist of a thallus (plant body not differentiated into roots, stems and leaves), formerly collected in the obsolete taxonomic group Thallophyta.
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Alternative form of ustilagineous [Relating to the ustilago fungus.]
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(botany) A cell that is linear in form and is responsible for the conduction of water and minerals in the xylem.
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