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(biology) The passive dispersal of seeds by means of external agents.
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Describing insects that initially live in water but live on land as adults
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(botany) Relating to the androecium
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An organism that spreads by wind, as a plant with wind-borne seeds.
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(botany, zoology) Alternative form of anemochory [(botany) The dispersal of seeds, spores, or fruit by wind.]
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(botany) Adapted for dispersal via wind.
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(botany) The dispersal of seeds, spores, or fruit by wind.
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Relating to angiosperms
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(ecology) A species that depends on anthropochory as a routine means of reproductive dispersal.
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(ecology) The (typically inadvertent) dispersal of seeds, spores, or other reproductive botanical material, or of reproductively capable animals, by humans as a routine means of reproductive dispersal of that species.
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(botany, zoology) Any apomictic plant or organism.
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(botany) Alternative spelling of apomixis [(botany) Plant reproduction without fertilization.]
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(botany) Relating to or possessing archegonia.
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(ecology) Self-dispersal of seeds, the physical and often explosive discharge of seeds from the fruit.
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Alternative form of barochory [(biology) The dispersal of seeds, spores, or fruit by gravity alone.]
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(biology) The dispersal of seeds, spores, or fruit by gravity alone.
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Alternative form of biliphyte [Any alga of the phylum Biliphyta.]
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(botany) Of fungi: producing both the "female" ascogonium and the "male" antheridium.
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(of a fish or other aquatic creature) Feeding off plant and animal life found in the lowest regions of its habitat.
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(botany) A process of fecundation in which the pollen tube penetrates to the embryo sac through the tissue of the chalaza, instead of entering through the micropyle.
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(biology) seed dispersal by turtles or tortoises
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(biology) Dispersal (chiefly of seeds) by bats.
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flowering at the same time as another
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Dispersal of seeds that takes place in more than one stage, generally by different methods.
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(ecology) An organism that disperses something, such as seeds, in the environment.
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(biology) The dispersal of seeds by harvester ants
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(biology) Relating to dispersal of seeds via the skin or fur of animals
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seed dispersal via the fur or skin of animals
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(biology) Seed dispersal via ingestion by vertebrate animals (mostly birds and mammals).
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(ecology) Any plant growing as a parasite within an insect or its larva
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Alternative form of epizoochorous [(biology) Spread, or having seeds that are dispersed, by adhering to animals (without granting any benefit to them).]
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(biology) Spread, or having seeds that are dispersed, by adhering to animals (without granting any benefit to them).
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(ecology) Seed dispersal via transportation on the outside of vertebrate animals (mostly mammals).
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The dispersal of seeds etc., by attachment to the outer surface an animal's body.
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(biology) seed dispersal by means of gastropods
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(biology) Producing gemmae or buds.
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The erosion of barriers to gene flow and biological dispersal.
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(botany) The dispersal of seeds or spores by the indirect action of man
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(botany) The condition where self-pollination is impossible (e.g. due to physical obstacles or mutations).
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Alternative form of heterosporous [(botany, of an organism) Producing both male and female gametophytes.]
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(botany) Fertilization of a flower by pollen from the same plant.
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(botany) Having seeds that are dispersed by water
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(biology, botany) Spread, or having seeds that are dispersed, by water.
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(botany) The dispersal of seeds, spores, or fruit by water.
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(biology) That lives in dead wood, leaves, or sticks, or organic debris
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(biology) The dispersal of seeds, spores, or fruit by ants.
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(botany) The presence of mucilage in the seeds
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The condition of being ombrophilous
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Of or pertaining to orchidology.
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(biology) A temporary dormancy in some plants
adj
Alternative form of parthenocarpic [Exhibiting or relating to parthenocarpy.]
adj
(botany) That reproduces via seeds (rather than spores)
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(biology) marine detritus, of plant origin, that slowly sinks to the depths and is the food source for abyssal benthic communities
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(usually of a parasite) Infecting or inhabiting fish.
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(botany) An organism of the kingdom Plantae; now specifically, a living organism of the Embryophyta (land plants) or of the Chlorophyta (green algae), a eukaryote that includes double-membraned chloroplasts in its cells containing chlorophyll a and b, or any organism closely related to such an organism.
adj
(botany) Exhibiting or relating to porogamy.
adj
(botany) Exhibiting or relating to porogamy.
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(botany) any reproductive process that requires pollination but does not involve male inheritance.
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(botany) seed dispersal by lizards or snakes
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(biology) seed dispersal as a result of an ecological trigger, typically fire
n
(biology) The dispersal of seed by animals who store them in a cache
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(biology) dispersed by means of thalassochory
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(biology) Transport or dispersal of organisms by means of the ocean.
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Relating to vermiculture.
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(botany) The transfer of pollen from the anthers of one plant to the stigma of another; cross-pollination
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Living or growing on wood.
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The dispersal of seeds, spores, or fruit by animals.
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