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Flowers

Of or realting to the reproductive part of a flowering plant. The flower facilitates the unification of sperm and eggs. Also, flowers are used by humans as decoration, romance, ritual, religion, medicine, and food source.

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bryophyte

Plants; Flowers

Plants in which the gametophyte generation is the larger, persistent phase; they generally lack conducting tissues. Bryophytes include the Hepaticophyta (liverworts), Anthocerotophyta (hornworts), ...

carpel

Plants; Flowers

A unit of the pistil; it is evolutionarily a modified leaf.

cataphyll

Plants; Flowers

In cycads, a scale-like modified leaf which protects the developing true leaves.

columella

Plants; Flowers

A small column of tissue which runs up through the center of a spore capsule. It is present in hornworts, mosses, and some rhyniophytes.

root

Biology; Flowers

Usually the below ground portion of a plant.

rosette

Plants; Flowers

A series of whorls of leaves or leaf-like structure produced at the base of the stem, just above the ground.

secondary growth

Plants; Flowers

Growth in a plant which does not occur at the tips of the stems or roots.

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