Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A slender stalk that supports each half of a dehisced fruit in many members of the parsley family.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In botany, the prolongation of the floral axis which bears the carpels of some compound fruits, as in Geranium and many Umbelliferæ. It is sometimes applied, but less properly, to any stipe supporting an ovary, as in the Capparidaceæ.
Wiktionary
- n. botany A thin stalk that raises the pistil above the stamens in some Umbelliferae
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Bot.) A slender prolongation of the receptacle as an axis between the carpels, as in Geranium and many umbelliferous plants.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a slender stalk that furnishes an axis for a carpel
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A Galimafrée of Plant Anatomy & Morph...
A hodgepodge, jumble, jambalaya, *gallimaufry, circus and tent revival of plant anatomy and morphology terms and phrases - its a big tent, and no tickets are required.
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Palynology
List of terms used in the study and classification of pollen and spores - both fossil and modern.
tetrad, abporal, ectoaperture, lacuna, grain, spore, lophate, acalymmate, monad, polyad, hexad, calymmate and 513 more...
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misc. plant morphology
the concise british flora in colour (w. keble martin) - glossary - edited, and to be added to
whorled, viviparous, vittae, viscid, villous, valvate, unarmed, umbellate, umbel, tubercle, triquetrous, trigonous and 135 more...
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-phore
denoting an agent or bearer
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patterns
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Carry Me Home Again
Another kind of bear list, in conjunction with Carry Me Home: words deriving from the Greek pherein, ("to carry") or phoros, ("a carrying").
metaphor, euphoria, diaphoresis, anaphora, amphora, periphery, pheromone, telpher, tocopherol, chromatophore, gonophore, phoresy and 45 more...
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