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Androdioecious
With male flowers growing on some plants, and bisexual flowers growing on others.
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Androclinium
Of orchid flowers.
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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).
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Ancipital
(Of stems) with two slight ridges or flanges. Two-edged.
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Anchor hairs
Hairs with short terminal barbs or grapnel flukes.
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Anauxotelic
Parts of inflorescences that do not end in a flower, and which do not grow beyond the flowering region [unusual term].
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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.
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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…
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Anastomosing
Forming a network; vein branches uniting where they come into contact. Forming a net-work, like the veins in a leaf.
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Ananthous
Without flowers [unusual term].
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