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Amphimixis (adj) amphimictic
Reproduction by seed produced by sexual means.
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Amphidiploid
Plant formed from the sexual union of parents with different chromosome sets, forming a tetraploid.
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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.
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Amphicarpic
Producing two different kinds of fruits.
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Amentiform
Resembling a catkin.
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Amentiferous
Bearing catkins.
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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.
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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.
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Amber
(Colour) brownish yellow; (substance) fossil plant resin; semi-fossilised resin is known as copal.
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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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