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(botany) Developing the archegonium on the summit of the primary stem; fruiting at tips, in the manner of mosses.
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(botany) Any agamospermous plant
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(botany) Increasing in size by growth on all sides, as in the lichens.
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(botany, rare) amphistomatic
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(botany) campylotropous and inverted
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(botany) The condition of being anatropous
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(botany) The dispersal of pollen by the wind.
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(botany) Pollinated by the wind.
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(biology) The most primitive form of progymnosperms
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(botany) One of the mobile male reproductive bodies in the antheridia of cryptogams.
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Alternative form of aspermous [(botany) Lacking seeds.]
adj
(botany) Lacking seeds.
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(botany) That does not have spores
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(phycology) Exhibiting further enlargement of segments formed by secondary growth after their initial formation, so that filaments have a conspicuously greater diameter than the apical cell that generated them.
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(botany) Any plant with an axis or stem
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(botany) Of the nature of an aëtheogam.
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(botany) A form of seed dispersal in which the seed is forcefully ejected by explosive dehiscence of the fruit
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(botany) A layer of cells between the xylem and the phloem that is responsible for the secondary growth of roots and stems.
adj
Alternative form of cleistocarpous [(botany) Relating to, or bearing a cleistocarp]
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(botany) seeds and fruit together regarded as a dispersal unit.
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(botany) Describing a plant or fungus where both the haploid and diploid phases are represented by a multicellular phase.
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(botany) The production of buds within flowers.
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(botany) Pertaining or belonging to the episperm, or seed covering.
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(biology) Relating to an exocarp
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Alternative form of exorhizal [(botany) Having a radicle that is not enclosed by the cotyledons or plumule; of or relating to an exorhiza.]
adj
(botany, of an embryo) Having the apex pointed toward the neck of the archegonium
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The quality of being gamopetalous.
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(botany) The trait of being gymnospermous.
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The property of being gymnospermous
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(biology) The closing of the pores in pollen grains to avoid loss of water
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(botany, of an organism) Producing both male and female gametophytes.
adj
(botany) of a meristem: situated between zones of permanent tissue, thus a shoot growing at the base of a leaf, in comparison with apical growth at the tip of a root or plant.
adj
Living or growing on lichen.
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(botany) A relatively large hair, typically on a bract or leaf
adj
Of or pertaining to megaflora.
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One of a group of very small cotyledons in the fetomaternal interface of the (typically equine) placenta
n
(botany) A very small leaf
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(biology, of a pollnator) that collects pollen the flowers of only one species
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A plant whose spores, seeds, or fruits are dispersed by birds.
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(biology) A layer of thin-walled young cells in a growing stem, where certain new vessels originate; a pericycle.
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(biology) The layer of nutritive tissue, derived from the nucellus, that surrounds the embryo of a seed in some angiosperms.
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(botany) Any plant that produces seeds (rather than spores).
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(botany) The transfer of pollen from an anther to a stigma; effected by insects, birds, bats and the wind etc.
adj
Alternative form of pollinic [Of or relating to pollen.]
adj
(biology, of spores) Having many folds in the exine
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(botany) The property of having the pollen tube in a seed plant enter the ovule by way of the micropyle.
adj
(botany) Whose female parts (archegonia) mature before the male parts (antheridia) release their spermatozoids.
n
(botany) A plant produced by vegetative propagation.
adj
(anatomy) conveying, containing, bearing, or producing semen or seminal fluid
adj
Alternative form of seminific [(biology) Forming or producing semen; seminiferous.]
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(biology) reproduction via pollen tubes
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(botany) Capable of producing seeds.
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The property of being stenoecious.
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(botany) The development or production of fruit that is seedless or has minute seeds because of the abortion of seed development
adj
Of or relating to the strophiole.
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(botany) The dispersal of diaspores as units, where each bears more than one seed.
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(botany) Synonym of thyrse
n
The fluid that circulates within the phloem of a tree to distribute water and nutrients.
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(botany) A vegetative, nutrient-producing leaf or microphyll, whose primary function is photosynthesis.
n
(botany) A plant whose seeds, spores, or fruit are dispersed by animals.
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