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Botany

Terms that are in relation to the study or science of plants.

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Botany

phyllotaxy

Plants; Botany

The arrangement of leaves on a stem (when spiral, often expressed quantitatively as the fraction of the circumference of the stem that separates two successive leaves).

axil

Plants; Botany

The angle between a leaf or bract and the axis bearing it. Adj. Axillary.

imbibition

Plants; Botany

The absorption of water, seeds with high protein contents have a very high imbibing capacity, and will swell more from imbibing than seeds with more starch or cellulose.

acute

Plants; Botany

Terminating in a distinct but not protracted point, the converging edges separated by an angle less than 90 degrees.

apex

Plants; Botany

Terminal, growing point, tip of leaves, stem, roots.

striate

Plants; Botany

Striped with parallel longitudinal lines or ridges.

stipitate

Plants; Botany

Stalked; borne on a stipe; of an ovary, borne on a gynophore.

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