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ANEMONES |
White-flowering plants |
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ORCHIDS |
Flowering plants |
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FLORICULTURE |
The cultivation of flowering plants. |
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FLORICULTURAL |
Pertaining to the cultivation of flowering plants. |
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BULBEL |
A separable bulb formed on some flowering plants. |
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EXTINE |
The outer membrane of the grains of pollen of flowering
plants. |
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SPORE |
An embryo sac or embryonal vesicle in the ovules of
flowering plants. |
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THRIFT |
One of several species of flowering plants of the genera
Statice and Armeria. |
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PHAENOGAMIA |
The class of flowering plants including all which
have true flowers with distinct floral organs; phanerogamia. |
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CROWFOOT |
The genus Ranunculus, of many species; some are common
weeds, others are flowering plants of considerable beauty. |
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CINERARIA |
A Linnaean genus of free-flowering composite plants,
mostly from South Africa. Several species are cultivated for ornament. |
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ARCHEGONIUM |
The pistillidium or female organ in the higher
cryptogamic plants, corresponding to the pistil in flowering plants. |
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HONEYSUCKLE |
One of several species of flowering plants, much
admired for their beauty, and some for their fragrance. |
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FIBROVASCULAR |
Containing woody fiber and ducts, as the stems of
all flowering plants and ferns; -- opposed to cellular. |
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UTRICULARIA |
A genus of aquatic flowering plants, in which the
submersed leaves bear many little utricles, or ascidia. See Ascidium, |
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RHIZOGEN |
One of a proposed class of flowering plants growning on
the roots of other plants and destitute of green foliage. |
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PHANEROGAMIA |
That one of the two primary divisions of the
vegetable kingdom which contains the phanerogamic, or flowering,
plants. |
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OVARY |
That part of the pistil which contains the seed, and in most
flowering plants develops into the fruit. See Illust. of Flower. |
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FLOWERING |
Having conspicuous flowers; -- used as an epithet with
many names of plants; as, flowering ash; flowering dogwood; flowering
almond, etc. |
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CHELONE |
A genus of hardy perennial flowering plants, of the order
Scrophulariaceae, natives of North America; -- called also snakehead,
turtlehead, shellflower, etc. |
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ZAUSCHNERIA |
A genus of flowering plants. Zauschneria Californica
is a suffrutescent perennial, with showy red flowers much resembling
those of the garden fuchsia. |
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ANDROMEDA |
A genus of ericaceous flowering plants of northern
climates, of which the original species was found growing on a rock
surrounded by water. |
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CLEMATIS |
A genus of flowering plants, of many species, mostly
climbers, having feathery styles, which greatly enlarge in the fruit;
-- called also virgin's bower. |
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SAPROPHYTE |
Any plant growing on decayed animal or vegetable
matter, as most fungi and some flowering plants with no green color, as
the Indian pipe. |
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LILY |
A name given to handsome flowering plants of several genera,
having some resemblance in color or form to a true lily, as Pancratium,
Crinum, Amaryllis, Nerine, etc. |