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This glossary of botanical terms is a list of definitions of terms and concepts relevant to botany and plants in general. Terms of plant morphology are included here as well as at the more specific Glossary of plant morphology and Glossary of leaf morphology.
According to one meaning of the word, an epode[1] is the third part of an ancient Greek choral ode that follows the strophe and the antistrophe and completes the movement. [2]
Flowers are composed of many distinct components: sepals, petals, stamens, and carpels. These components are arranged in whorls and attach to an area called the receptacle, which is at the end of the stem that leads to the flower. This stem is called the peduncle.
2 lut 2023 · It is an indefinite or indeterminate type of inflorescence, showing indefinite growth of the main axis and bears numerous flowers due to the presence of an active growing point. Here, the flowers are arranged in one of two ways – acropetal or centripetal.
The products of photosynthesis (mainly the sugar sucrose) are a major component of the substance found in the phloem, called assimilate. Ions, amino acids, certain hormones, and other molecules are also found in assimilate. The movement of assimilate is called translocation, or assimilate transport.
20 wrz 2020 · Plant identification depends on knowledge of taxonomy and understanding of stem, leaf, bud, flower and fruit morphology. Morphology is the Greek word for “the study of shape,” and plant morphology is the study of the external plant structures and shapes.
The dicotyledons, also known as dicots (or, more rarely, dicotyls), [2] are one of the two groups into which all the flowering plants (angiosperms) were formerly divided. The name refers to one of the typical characteristics of the group: namely, that the seed has two embryonic leaves or cotyledons .
