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  • Androdioecious

    With male flowers growing on some plants, and bisexual flowers growing on others.  

  • Androclinium

    Of orchid flowers.    

  • Ancipitous

    (Of stems) with two slight ridges or flanges; With two edges and flattened, used in groups where the organ in question is usually round (e.g. leaf, bulb).  

  • Ancipital

    (Of stems) with two slight ridges or flanges. Two-edged.  

  • Anchor hairs

    Hairs with short terminal barbs or grapnel flukes.  

  • Anauxotelic

    Parts of inflorescences that do not end in a flower, and which do not grow beyond the flowering region [unusual term].  

  • Anatropous

    Of an ovule, reversed; bent parallel to its stalk so the micropyle is close to the point of funiculus attachment. An ovule bent back upon its stem.  

  • Anastomosis

    Union of one vein with another, the connection forming a network. Surgical, traumatic, or pathologic formation of a connection between two normally separate tubular structures or organs in the body. The surgical or pathologic connection between two vessels or tubular structures. In anatomy, fusing of hollow, tubular structures, especially in blood vessels. A connection made…

  • Anastomosing

    Anastomosing

    Forming a network; vein branches uniting where they come into contact. Forming a net-work, like the veins in a leaf.  

  • Ananthous

    Without flowers [unusual term].  

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