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STEM |
Flower stalk |
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FOOTSTALK |
The stalk of a leaf or of flower; a petiole, pedicel, or
reduncle. |
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EBRACTEOLATE |
Without bracteoles, or little bracts; -- said of a
pedicel or flower stalk. |
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BRACT |
Any modified leaf, or scale, on a flower stalk or at the
base of a flower. |
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BRACTLET |
A bract on the stalk of a single flower, which is itself
on a main stalk that support several flowers. |
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PEDUNCLE |
The stem or stalk that supports the flower or fruit of a
plant, or a cluster of flowers or fruits. |
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PENDULOUS |
Inclined or hanging downwards, as a flower on a recurved
stalk, or an ovule which hangs from the upper part of the ovary. |
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PEDICEL |
A stalk which supports one flower or fruit, whether
solitary or one of many ultimate divisions of a common peduncle. See
Peduncle, and Illust. of Flower. |
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RECEPTACLE |
The apex of the flower stalk, from which the organs of
the flower grow, or into which they are inserted. See Illust. of
Flower, and Ovary. |
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HAIR |
An outgrowth of the epidermis, consisting of one or of
several cells, whether pointed, hooked, knobbed, or stellated. Internal
hairs occur in the flower stalk of the yellow frog lily (Nuphar). |