n
(zoology, usually of mosquitos) The tendency of an animal to inhabit or frequent treetops.
n
(botany) The arrangement (vernation) of the parts of a flower inside a bud; prefloration.
adj
(botany) Of a fern in which the first veins in a frond segment are produced towards the apex of the frond.
n
(botany) An annual plant; a plant with a life span of just one growing season; a plant which naturally germinates, flowers and dies in one year. Compare biennial, perennial.
adj
(botany) Changing the direction in the spiral sequence of leaves on a stem.
adj
(biology, mycology) Having a pattern of block-like areas similar to cracked dried mud
n
(botany) A buttress-root.
adj
(botany) That thrives in calcareous soil.
adj
Bearing or producing cells.
n
The conversion of phyllomes into spur-like or sac-like nectarial structures, as in ranunculaceous plants.
adj
(botany) Alternative form of connate [Of the same or a similar nature; proceeding from the same stock or root.]
n
(biology) An organism made up of a number of individuals, such as, for example, would be formed by a process of budding from a parent stalk where the buds remain attached.
n
A group of vesicles at the same stage of development in a disease.
adj
Of or pertaining to a diradical
n
(botany) The growth habit of some low-growing shrubs; with wide angles where they diverge, the branches may interlace.
adj
(botany, of a water-dwelling plant) Having leaves and flowers above the water.
adj
Alternative spelling of aestiferous [(obsolete, not comparable)]
adj
Alternative form of fastigiate [(botany) Erect and parallel]
adj
Describing a region with a relatively uniform composition of plant species.
adj
Of or relating to fluerics.
adj
Of or relating to folisols.
adv
Alternative spelling of follicly [(humorous) With respect to hair.]
adj
Resembling or characteristic of fungus.
adj
Resembling or characteristic of glucose.
adj
Containing or producing gossan.
adj
(botany) Relating to the induviae.
adj
(botany) Covered with induviae.
adj
(botany) Attached to or growing out of some part.
adj
within the root of a plant
n
the study of dust, pollen and other airborne particles.
adj
Bearing or producing wool.
adj
(botany) Producing lenticels; dotted with lenticels.
adj
(botany) Containing lignin or xylem.
adj
Yielding or producing wood.
adj
Alternative form of ligneous [Of, or resembling wood; woody.]
n
(botany) Retention (by a plant) of dead organs (such as leaves) that normally are shed.
n
(botany) A mast seeding.
adj
Of or pertaining to mioflora.
adj
(of honey) Made wholly or predominantly from the nectar of a single plant species.
n
(biochemistry) A matrix protein that is involved in the formation of nacre in molluscs
n
(botany) A gymnosperm seed which isn't enclosed in a plant ovary.
adj
(botany) Having the radicle of the embryo lying against the back of one of the cotyledons; incumbent.
n
(botany) The circular motion of the tip of a growing shoot.
n
(botany) A plant rooted in the bottom, but with leaves floating on the water surface.
adj
Alternative form of oleose [oily]
adj
All-bearing; producing all kinds.
n
(botany) The original single parent plant from which a clone ultimately derives.
v
(intransitive) To produce eggs or ova.
adj
Alternative form of peltate [Shield-shaped; scutiform.]
n
(botany) A cap of cells covering the growing extremity of a root; a rootcap.
n
Alternative form of prefloration [(botany) The arrangement (vernation) of floral parts in a bud.]
n
(botany) The arrangement (vernation) of floral parts in a bud.
adj
(botany, not comparable) Pertaining to a root (of a plant).
adj
(botany) Taking root on, or above, the ground; rooting from the stem, like the trumpet creeper and the ivy.
adj
(archaic) Relating to roots.
adj
(botany) Having a root; growing from a root; (of a fungus) having rootlike outgrowths at the base of the stipe.
adj
(obsolete, rare) causing to take root, establishing
n
(botany) A small branch of a root; a rootlet.
adj
That lives in or on the roots of plants
adj
(botany) Having a large root.
adj
Producing many rootlets or radicles.
adj
(botany, medicine, uncommon) Of or pertaining to a radicle (nerve root, or rudimentary shoot of a plant from which a root is developed downward).
n
A material that causes an organism to become ramose
adj
(biology) That inhabits the resin exuded by some trees
adj
(botany) Bearing roots.
n
The part of a plant, generally underground, that anchors and supports the plant body, absorbs and stores water and nutrients, and in some plants is able to perform vegetative reproduction.
n
(botany) The structure comprising the roots of a plant.
n
A mass of parenchymatous cells that covers and protects the growing cells at the end of a root.
adj
(botany) That grows in rubbish or poor soil
adj
(botany) Growing on rocks.
adj
Alternative form of saliferous [Yielding or containing salt; saliniferous]
adj
(botany) Climbing, without obvious morphological adaptations.
adj
Capable of producing or bearing seeds.
n
(botany) A seedling produced by self-pollination (plural selfs).
adj
Of or pertaining to a sere.
adj
That inhabits an environment rich in the mineral serpentine
n
(botany) Any plant that grows on serpentine rocks
adj
(botany) Relating to, or resembling, silicles.
n
The method in which the parts of a plant are arranged.
adj
Having or relating to a soredium.
adj
Resembling or characteristic of steroids.
adj
Of, or relating to art of topiaries.
n
(botany) A variation in the colour of different zones of the same plant.
n
(botany) The arrangement of multiple organs (such as leaves and flower parts) within a bud.
adj
(dated) Alternative spelling of zinciferous [Containing or producing zinc.]
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