Category: C
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Colleter
Multicellular glandular hair-like structure found associated with petioles, stipules and sepals.
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Collecting hairs
(For example, in Compositae/Asteraceae) hairs on the style that collect pollen that is discharged from the anthers.
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Collateral
Cotyledons equal in seed (as opposed to superposed); Bud lateral to axillary bud; (Of seeds in Annonaceae) side by side. A small side branch of a blood vessel or nerve.
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Collar
In general, an encircling band; The part of the plant on the boundary of underground parts and above-ground parts; Free portion of floral tube, above the casing and below the neck; Junction between sheath and blade of a leaf.
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Coleorhiza
In grasses, sheath that protects the embryonic root or radicle.
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Coleoptile
In monocotyledons, the sheath that protects the emerging shoot while it grows through the soil.
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Coiled
Rolled up, like a spring, upon itself.
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Cohort
A group of individuals produced from one parent by vegetative reproduction. In epidemiology, a group of persons who have characteristics in common and are studied prospectively. A group of people sharing a particular characteristic such as age or gender who are studied in a scientific or medical investigation. A selected group of people born during…
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Coherent, cohering
Attached to each other (among similar organs). Growing together from first to last, i. e., their whole length. Sticking together, as parts of bodies or fluids.
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Coeval
Of or belonging to the same age or generation.