Botany

This page gathers the 2,041 dictionary entries belonging to the domain “Botany”, as labelled by Wiktionary. Each word leads to its full entry: definitions, etymology, pronunciation, examples. Page 1 of 21: from “-androus” to “anisomery”.

1. -androus suffix having a specified number of stamens
2. -gyny suffix a situation with respect to female plant organs
3. -id suffix Forming nouns from Latin or Greek roots, including certain plant names modelled on Latin sources.
4. -merous suffix Comprising the specified number of parts.
5. -phily suffix pollination by
6. -phyllous suffix Of having a specified number or kind of leaves.
7. -plinerved suffix Indicating that the main nerves are lateral and arise from a point distinctly above the base of the leaf. Combined with a numerical prefix…
8. -ptile suffix type of leaf
9. abaxial adj Of a side that is facing away from the axis or central line, such as the underside of a leaf, or the back of an animal.
10. aberrant adj Deviating from the ordinary or natural type; exceptional; abnormal.
11. aberration noun Atypical development or structure; deviation from the normal type; an aberrant organ.
12. abietic adj Of, pertaining to, or derived from fir trees
13. abjoint verb To form by cutting off as a protrusion from a parent cell.
14. abrupt adj Suddenly terminating, as if cut off; truncate.
15. abscise verb To separate by means of abscission; to shed or drop off.
16. abscission noun The natural separation of a part at a predetermined location, such as a leaf at the base of the petiole.
17. abscission layer noun A layer of cells in a plant that differ from those above and below, and contain abundant starch and dense cytoplasm, which upon…
18. abscission zone noun The area in a plant's leaf, stem, or fruit stalk, where the abscission layer if formed along with weakened sclerenchyma, absent…
19. acantha noun A prickle.
20. acanthaceous adj Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a member of the Acanthaceae family.
21. acarophilous adj That is pollinated by mites
22. accessory fruit noun A fruit which includes tissue not derived from the ovary but from some adjacent tissue, as for instance, a strawberry.
23. accessory pigment noun Any non-chlorophyll pigment present in a chloroplast that helps to absorb light but sends all the energy to a chlorophyll.
24. accrescent adj Which keeps growing past the point it normally would stop and begin wilting.
25. accrete adj Grown together.
26. accumbant adj lying against the radicle of a seed
27. accumbent adj Lying against anything, as one part of a leaf against another leaf
28. acephalous adj Having the style spring from the base, instead of from the apex, as is the case in certain ovaries
29. aceraceous adj Belonging to the family Aceraceae of maples and close relatives, now subsumed in family Sapindaceae, especially its subfamily…
30. acerose adj Having the nature of chaff; chaffy.
31. acervate adj Heaped, or growing in heaps, or closely compacted clusters.
32. acicular adj Of a leaf, slender and pointed, needle-like.
33. acies noun The edge or angle of certain stems.
34. acinus noun One of the small grains or drupelets which make up some kinds of fruit, as the blackberry, raspberry, etc.
35. acquisition feeding time noun The amount of time required for a successful acquisition of a virus by its vector for subsequent transmission, in which it then becomes…
36. acrocarpous adj Developing the archegonium on the summit of the primary stem; fruiting at tips, in the manner of mosses.
37. acrophyll noun In a climbing plant, a leaf produced by the mature plant, which is physically distinct from the leaves produced by the immature plant.
38. acrospire noun The sprout at the end of a seed when it begins to germinate.
39. actinorhizal adj Able to form a symbiosis with nitrogen-fixing actinobacteria
40. aculeus noun A sharp spike or other projection growing on a plant, as in some brambles and roses.
41. acumen noun A sharp, tapering point extending from a plant.
42. acuminate adj Tapering to a long point in concave manner at its apex.
43. acutangular adj Sharply angular.
44. acute adj With the sides meeting directly to form an acute angle (at an apex or base).
45. acyclic adj Of a flower, having its parts inserted spirally on the receptacle.
46. adaxial adj On the side that is towards the axis or central line, usually on the upper side.
47. adelaster noun A provisional name for a plant which has not had its flowers botanically examined, and therefore has not been referred to its proper genus.
48. adenostyle noun Any member of the Adenostyles genus of plants.
49. adherent adj Attaching or pressing against a different organ.
50. adnate adj Linked or fused to a structure of a type different from itself; for example, attachment of a stamen to a petal is adnate, while attachment…
51. adnexal adj Having the property of being adnexed.
52. aerial adj Above the ground.
53. aerophore noun A thin-walled area of the roots of some plants growing in swampy conditions through which gasses are exchanged.
54. aestivation noun The arrangement (vernation) of the parts of a flower inside a bud; prefloration.
55. aetheogam noun A cryptogam; a plant of the obsolete taxonomic class Cryptogamia, having neither stamina nor pistils, and therefore no proper flowers, such…
56. aggregate adj Composed of several florets within a common involucre, as in the daisy; or of several carpels formed from one flower, as in the raspberry.
57. aggregate fruit noun A fruit that develops from the fusion of more than one carpel within a single flower, as for instance, a raspberry.
58. agrarian adj Wild; said of plants growing in a cultivated field.
59. agrophic adj Not paired with a vein on the opposite side of the lateral vein.
60. airshoot noun A filiform shoot of a water plant that floats on the surface of the water and contains bract-like organs.
61. ala noun The flattened border of some stems, fruits, and seeds, or one of the two side petals of certain flowers in the pea family.
62. alabastrum noun A flower bud
63. alate adj Having wings or winglike extensions or parts; winged.
64. albedo noun The whitish inner portion of the rind of citrus fruits that is a source of pectin, commonly referred to as the pith.
65. albumen noun The endosperm of seeds of most flowering plants, especially when found in mature seeds.
66. allospecies noun Any allogamous species
67. allotropous adj Pertaining to a flower which attracts a large range of different insects to feed on its nectar.
68. alpestrine adj Growing on the elevated parts of mountains, but not above the tree-line; subalpine.
69. alpine noun Any of several plants, native to mountain habitats, often grown in rock gardens.
70. alsinaceous adj Of or pertaining to the Alsinaceae (Caryophyllaceae) family, especially chickweed.
71. alternate adj Distributed singly at different heights of the stem, and at equal intervals as respects angular divergence
72. amalthea noun An aggregation of dry fruits within a calyx which does not become fleshy, as in Alchemilla or Sanguisorba.
73. ambigenous adj Having two natures, like the perianth of some endogenous plants, where the outer surface is calycine and the inner petaloid.
74. ambitus noun The exterior edge or border of a thing, such as a leaf or shell.
75. ament noun A catkin or similar inflorescence.
76. amentiform adj Shaped like a catkin.
77. ampelography noun The discipline within botany concerned with the taxonomy of cultivars in the grapevine genus, Vitis.
78. amphigenous adj growing on all sides of a leaf, as in the lichens
79. amphistomous adj Having stomata on both surfaces of the leaf.
80. amphora noun A lower valve of a fruit that opens transversely.
81. amplectant adj That clasps a support, especially by twining around it
82. amplexus noun In vernation, the situation where two sides of one leaf overlap the two sides of the one above it.
83. ampliate adj Enlarged.
84. ampulla noun The spongiole of a root.
85. amylum star noun A vegetative propagative body filled with starch, located around the lower nodes of certain stoneworts.
86. anadromous adj Of a fern: in which the first veins in a frond segment are produced towards the apex of the frond.
87. anamorphosis noun An abnormal form of some lichens or fungi that gives the appearance of a different species.
88. anandrous adj Lacking stamens; devoid of the male part.
89. anastomose adj Joined or run together; interconnected.
90. ancipital adj Two-edged instead of round; said of certain flattened stems, such as those of bluegrass, and rarely also of leaves.
91. androgenesis noun Male or paternal apomixis, involving fusion of the male and female gametes and replacement of the female nucleus by the male nucleus.
92. androgynophore noun A stalk bearing both the androecium and the gynoecium of a flower above the level of insertion of the perianth.
93. androphore noun A support or column on which stamens are raised.
94. anemochory noun The dispersal of seeds, spores, or fruit by wind.
95. angel hair noun A parasitic plant of the genus Cuscuta, dodder.
96. angienchyma noun vascular tissue of plants, consisting of spiral vessels, dotted, barred, and pitted ducts, and laticiferous vessels
97. angiosperm noun Any plant of the clade Angiosperms, characterized by having ovules enclosed in an ovary; a flowering plant.
98. angle shoot noun Alternative form of angle-shoot.
99. anisomerous adj Having the number of floral organs unequal.
100. anisomery noun The condition of having a floral whorl with a different (usually smaller) number of parts than the other floral whorls.

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