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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alder

Biology; Botany

Alder is the common name of a genus of flowering plants (Alnus) belonging to the birch family (Family Betulaceae). The genus comprises about 30 species of monoecious trees and ...

birch

Biology; Botany

Birch is a broadleaved deciduous hardwood tree of the genus Betula. The genus Betula contains from 30 to 60 known taxa of which 11 are on the IUCN 2011 Red List of Threatened ...

hornbeam

Biology; Botany

Hornbeams are relatively small hardwood trees in the genus Carpinus. Though some botanists grouped them with the hazels and hop-hornbeams in a segregate family, Corylaceae, modern ...

leaflet

Biology; Botany

A small or young leaf. The parts or divisions of a compound leaf are leaflets.

Mendel

Biology; Botany

Austrian scientist who studied heredity in plants. His ideas formed the basis of modern genetics.

appendage

Biology; Botany

a secondary part attached to the main structure; an external growth that seldom has any obvious function.

aquatic

Biology; Botany

plants whose natural habitat is water: living in or on water for all or a substantial part of the organism's life span, generally restricted to fresh or inland waters.