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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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apical meristem
Plants; Flowers

Group of cells at the growing tip of a branch or root. It divides cells to create new tissues.

archegonium
Plants; Flowers

The organ on a gametophyte plant which produces the egg cell, and nurtures the young sporophyte.

axil
Plants; Flowers

The angle formed between a leaf stalk and the stem to which it is attached. In flowering plants, buds develop in the axils of leaves.

bipinnate
Plants; Flowers

Describing a pinnate leaf in which the leaflets themselves are further subdivided in a pinnate fashion.

bisporangiate
Plants; Flowers

When a flower or cone produces both megaspores and microspores, it is said to be bisporangiate. Most flowers are bisporangiate.

blade
Biology; Flowers

Any broad and flattened region of a plant or alga, which allows for increased photosynthetic surface area.

bract
Biology; Flowers

Any reduced leaf-like structure associated with a cone or flower.

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