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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sympatric

Plants; Botany

Of two or more species, having coincident or ovarlapping ranges of distribution. Cf. Allopatric.

accumbent

Plants; Botany

Of the orientation of an embryo, with the radicle lying against the edges of the two cotyledons.

incumbent

Plants; Botany

Of the orientation of an embryo, with the cotyledons lying face to face and folded downwards beside the radicle; of anthers, lying against the inner face of the filament.

autochthonous

Plants; Botany

Of the inhabitants of a region, original; earliest known; (applied to an element of the australian flora rich in endemics and believed to have been evolving in australia for a ...