Glossary

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  • Annotine, annotinal, annotinous

    Referring to branches of last year’s growth [unusual term]; this year’s growth is hornotine.  

  • Anisophyllous

    Having two opposite leaves at a node that are of very unequal size or shape.  

  • Anisomerous

    With the number of floral organs, e.g. sepals and petals, within different whorls unequal.  

  • Anisocotylous

    With seedling leaves (cotyledons) of different size and/or shape.  

  • Angustiseptate

    With narrow partitions; With a partition across the narrowest part of the fruit.  

  • Angulate

    Angular.  

  • Angular

    With an angle, as where two planes meet; having to do with angles.  

  • Angiosperm

    Angiosperm

    Colloquial term for the taxon Angiospermae or Magnoliophyta, the flowering plants; distinct from the gymnosperms by having the ovules enclosed in a ovary or carpel. Flower-bearing plants; ovules are enclosed in an ovary that forms the fruit after fertilization. The most diverse group of flowering plants; angiosperms produce flowers and fruits, and contain seeds (of…

  • Anfractuose

    (Of hairs) wavy, twisted together tightly.  

  • Aneuploid

    With a chromosome number that is not an exact multiple of the haploid number common in related plants. In genetics, an organism or cell having a chromosome number that is not an exact multiple of the monoploid or basic number.  

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