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  • Amphimixis (adj) amphimictic

    Reproduction by seed produced by sexual means.  

  • Amphidiploid

    Plant formed from the sexual union of parents with different chromosome sets, forming a tetraploid.  

  • Amphicarpous

    Producing two different kinds of fruits; Applied to a small secondary inflorescence occurring at the base of the culm in certain genera of Cyperaceae, particularly Schoenoplectus.  

  • Amphicarpic

    Producing two different kinds of fruits.  

  • Amentiform

    Amentiform

    Resembling a catkin.  

  • Amentiferous

    Bearing catkins.  

  • Ament

    Ament

    A slender, often pendulous, cylindrical inflorescence with crowded (sub-)sessile unisexual apetalous flowers, falling as a whole after fruiting; also (preferably) called a catkin. A person lacking in intelligence; a mentally retarded person, amentia.  

  • Ambiguous

    In nomenclature, a name or epithet used in more than one interpretation, so it may indicate more than one taxon. To have several meanings or interpretations. In anatomy, being difficult to classify.  

  • Amber

    (Colour) brownish yellow; (substance) fossil plant resin; semi-fossilised resin is known as copal.  

  • Alveolate

    Pitted like a honeycomb; similar to fove(ol)ate, but with the depressions angled rather than round. Resembles the surface of a honeycomb.  

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