Flowers

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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pollen

Biology; Flowers

The microspore of seed plants.

pollen tube

Plants; Flowers

In seed plants, the extension of the male gametophyte as it emerges from the pollen grain in search of the female gametophyte.

pollination

Biology; Flowers

Process of transferring the pollen from its place of production to the place where the egg cell is produced. This may be accomplished by the use of wind, water, insects, birds, bats, or other means. ...

pollinia

Plants; Flowers

A mass of fused pollen produced by many orchids.

protostele

Plants; Flowers

When a plant's vascular tissue develops in a solid central bundle, it is said to have a protostele.

pseudoelaters

Plants; Flowers

Moisture-sensitive cells produced in the sporangium of hornworts.

pteridophyte

Plants; Flowers

Plant in which the sporophyte generation is the larger phase and in which the gametophyte lives an existence independent of its parent sporophyte. Pteridophytes are almost all vascular plants, and ...