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REED |
Woody plant |
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BUSH |
Woody plant |
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TREE |
Woody plant |
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SHRUB |
Woody plant |
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VINE |
Woody climbing plant |
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XYLEM |
Woody plant tissue |
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UNDERSHRIEVE |
A low shrub; a woody plant of low stature. |
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FRUTEX |
A plant having a woody, durable stem, but less than a tree;
a shrub. |
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BRIAR |
A plant with a slender woody stem bearing stout prickles;
especially, species of Rosa, Rubus, and Smilax. |
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HERB |
A plant whose stem does not become woody and permanent, but
dies, at least down to the ground, after flowering. |
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LIANA |
A luxuriant woody plant, climbing high trees and having
ropelike stems. The grapevine often has the habit of a liane. Lianes
are abundant in the forests of the Amazon region. |
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BITTERSWEET |
A climbing shrub, with oval coral-red berries (Solanum
dulcamara); woody nightshade. The whole plant is poisonous, and has a
taste at first swe... |
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PALMA CHRISTI |
A plant (Ricinus communis) with ornamental peltate and
palmately cleft foliage, growing as a woody perennial in the tropics,
and cultivated as ... |
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WELWITSCHIA |
...g to
the order Gnetaceae. It consists of a short, woody, topshaped stem, and
never more than two leaves, which are the cotyledons enormously
... |
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LIBER |
The inner bark of plants, lying next to the wood. It usually
contains a large proportion of woody, fibrous cells, and is, therefore,
the part f... |
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CALAMITE |
...ght of trees, and having the
stem more or less woody within. See Acrogen, and Asterophyllite. ... |
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PEPPER |
The plant which yields pepper, an East Indian woody climber
(Piper nigrum), with ovate leaves and apetalous flowers in spikes
opposite the leav... |