Plants

Plants

Any of various photosynthetic, eukaryotic, multicellular organisms of the kingdom Plantae characteristically producing embryos, containing chloroplasts, having cellulose cell walls, and lacking the power of locomotion.

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chaff

Plants; Botany

Thin, membranous scales or bracts; thin, dry unfertilised ovules among the fully developed seeds of a fruit.

incrassate

Plants; Botany

Thickened; of a pollen grain, with thickened margins around the apertures.

pachycaul

Plants; Botany

Thick-stemmed, not `twiggy' (unbranched, or the branches few and thick).

gynostemium

Plants; Botany

The upper part of an awn in grasses, when distinctly different in form from the lower part; (=column)

limb

Plants; Botany

The upper, free, spreading portion of a corolla or perianth that is connate at the base.

thallus

Plants; Botany

The vegetative body of a plant that is not differentiated into organs such as stems and leaves, e.g. Algae, the gametophytes of many liverworts, and Lemnaceae.