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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pteridosperm

Plants; Flowers

An extinct group of seed plants which bore fern-like leaves.

pycnoxylic

Plants; Flowers

Wood in which there is little or no parenchyma tissue among the xylem is called pycnoxylic. Conifers and flowering plants have pycnoxylic wood.

radicle

Plants; Flowers

The end of a plant embryo which gives rise to the first root.

radiospermic

Plants; Flowers

Having seeds which are round or ovoid. Contrast with platyspermic.

rhizoid

Plants; Flowers

A cellular outgrowth of a plant that usually aids in anchoring to the surface and increasing surface area to acquire water or nutrients; found in mosses, liverworts, and hornworts.

rhizome

Biology; Flowers

A horizontal underground stem, such as found in many ferns, where only the leaves may stick up into the air; sphenophytes (horsetails and their relatives) spread via rhizomes, but also produce erect ...