Category: C
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Complanate
Flattened.
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Comparium
Group of individuals able to interbreed and produce viable offspring.
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Compacted
(Of soils) pressed together, made dense.
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Compact
Closely packed together. Closely and tightly packed together; solid.
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Comose
Bearing a tuft, or several tufts, of hair. With a tuft of hairs at the apex of a seed or at the base of a floret in a grass spikelet.
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Community
A group of plants within a common environment. A geographic area that functions as a unit. A group of people who live and work in a district.
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Common receptacle
Receptacle supporting more than one organ.
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Common petiole
The main leaf-stalk in compound leaves; technically, petiole on its own is sufficient.
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Common name
A local popular name, as opposed to the scientific name; vernacular name. The names by which plants are commonly known as distinct from their Latin or scientific ones (which, unlike common names, are universally recognized). Sometimes the two coincide and as a plant can have several common names it is usual for books to list…
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Commensalism
Form of symbiosis in which one organism profits and the other neither profits nor is harmed. A relationship between two kinds of living organism whereby one (the commensal) benefits and the other (the host) remains relatively or absolutely unaffected, and which is often obligatory for the commensal. The symbiotic relationship of two organisms of different…