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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magnoliid

Plants; Flowers

Any member of the basal assemblage of flowering plants.

mannoxylic

Plants; Flowers

Wood in which there is a great deal of parenchyma tissue among the xylem is called mannoxylic

megaspore

Plants; Flowers

In plants which are heterosporous, the larger kind of spore is called a megaspore; it usually germinates into a female (egg-producing) gametophyte.

meristem

Plants; Flowers

Group of undifferentiated cells from which new tissues are produced. Most plants have apical meristems which give rise to the primary tissues of plants, and some have secondary meristems which add ...

merophytes

Plants; Flowers

Group of cells which have all been produced from the same initial cell. Leaves and stems in particular are often built from specific patterns of merophytes.