Botany

Botany

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

Contributors in Botany

Botany

A fruit characteristic of the families Mimosaceae, Caesalpiniaceae and Fabaceae, formed from one carpel and either dehiscent along both sides, or indehiscent; in particular, an edible crop species in ...

berry

Plants; Botany

A fleshy or pulpy indehiscent fruit with the seed(s) embedded in the fleshy tissue of the pericarp. Cf. Drupe, pyrene.

corm

Plants; Botany

A fleshy, swollen stem base, usually underground, in which food reserves are stored between growing seasons.

pome

Plants; Botany

A fleshy (false) fruit, formed from an inferior ovary, in which the receptacle or hypanthium has enlarged to enclose the true fruit.

achene

Plants; Botany

A dry, indehiscent fruit formed from a superior ovary of one carpel and containing one seed which is free from the pericarp. Lactuca viminea (often applied, less correctly, to the one-seeded fruits ...