Category: I

  • Incanous

    Covered in soft white hairs.  

  • Inbreeding

    Producing offspring by self-fertilisation or by crossing of parents that are very close genetically. The breeding of close relatives in both plants and animals. A situation where closely related males and females, or those with very similar genetic make-up, have children together, so allowing congenital conditions to be passed on. Production of offspring by the…

  • Inarticulate

    Not jointed, continuous. Without joints or segments, as in the bones of the skull. Unable to speak fluently or intelligibly. Not understandable as speech or language. Lacking joints or disjointed. This term especially refers to vocal sounds that cannot be comprehended. In common usage, it signifies being speechless or speaking unclearly.  

  • Inappendiculate

    Without an appendage. Provided with appendages.  

  • Inaperturate

    (Of pollen) without an opening or aperture.  

  • Inaequilateral

    With the two sides unequal.  

  • Implexed

    (Of hairs) entangled, which is preferred.  

  • Impervious

    Impassable to fluid.  

  • Imperfect

    (Of flowers) with one of the usual parts (e.g. stamens) absent. Having stamens or pistils but not both. Describes a flower having stamens or pistils, but not both.  

  • Imparipinnate

    Imparipinnate

    Unevenly or oddpinnate, i.e. pinnate with a single terminal leaflet. With a terminal leaflet. Pinnate, with a single leaflet at the apex of the common petiole. Oddly pinnate, a pinnate leaf with a single terminal leaflet. Leaf divided in several leaflets with an unequal number.