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Alete
(Of spore wall) without apertures.
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Albuminous
With albumen, the nutritive substance in the seed. Furnished with albumen. To resembling, or containing albumin.
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Albumen
Storage tissues accompanying the embryo (endosperm and perisperm) [antiquated term]. The watery jelly that surrounds the yolk of an egg is a protein called albumen, a form of which is also abundant in human blood. When heated, egg albumen turns white, a transformation that is suggested by the origin of the word itself: albumen derives…
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Alate
Winged; as the seeds of the ash.
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Alar flower
A flower borne in the fork of two branches of a dichasium [unusual term].
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Alae (singular ala)
Wings, lateral petals; especially of flowers in Leguminosae/Fabaceae subfamily Papilionoideae.
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Aianthous
Flowering constantly [unusual term, not recommended].
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Aggregate species
A super-species, with so much variation that several taxa are thought to be involved. A group of very closely related species, in this book treated as one.
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Aggregated into
Forming a more complex structure (e.g. racemes aggregated into a panicle).
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Aggregated
In a dense mass, the individual parts touching.
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