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  • Crassinucellate

    (Of ovules) with a thick nucellus up to the time of embryo-sac formation.  

  • Crassate

    Rather thick [unusual term, not recommended].  

  • Craspedodromous

    Craspedodromous

    With the veins running directly from the midrib to the leaf margin and ending there.  

  • Craspedium

    Craspedium

    A fruit that breaks up (either with the valves separating as a single unit or breaking into separate articles) to leave the suture as a persistent rim or replum.  

  • Cover crop

    Cover crop

    Plants grown to combat soil erosion.  

  • Couplet

    Couplet

    (In an identification key) term for two opposing possible choices.  

  • Counter-clockwise

    Counter-clockwise

    (Of growing or overlapping) when seen from above, in a direction opposite to that of the hands of a clock.  

  • Coumarin

    Coumarin

    An organic chemical (a benzopyrone) that smells of freshly cut grass. A chroman derivative, occurring in many flavoring agents, such as cassie, woodruff, lavender, and lovage. These flavoring agents are extensively used in sweets, liqueurs, and certain wines. Coumarin is a minor constituent of certain edible fruits, for example, strawberries, cherries, apricots, and a major…

  • Cotyliform

    Cotyliform

    Of a lobed structure: cup-shaped with a short broad tubular base and an erect limb [unusual term].  

  • Costule

    Midrib of a fern pinnule.  

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