midvein

(botany) The main vein of a simple leaf or leaflet, running from the petiole to its apex, and from which the other veins usually spread.


stenospermocarpy

(botany) The development or production of fruit that is seedless or has minute seeds because of the abortion of seed development


scapose

(botany) Having the floral axis more or less erect but with only a few leaves or devoid of leaves; consisting of a scape.


pseudoverticillate

(botany) Appearing to be verticillate, but not actually so.


synaptospermy

(botany) The dispersal of diaspores as units, where each bears more than one seed.


phyllopodium

(botany) The part of the stipe that is proximal or basal of the articulation (joint) and remains attached to the rhizome after the frond has detached from the articulation.


plastochron

(botany) The time between successive leaf initiation events.


stylulus

(botany) The elongated apex of a free carpel which functions like the style of a syncarpous ovary, allowing pollen tubes from its stigma to enter the locule of only that carpel.


scabrid

en-adj

scabrid (comparative more scabrid, superlative most scabrid)

more scabrid (comparative)
most scabrid (superlative)


stylodium

(botany) An elongate stigma that resembles a style.


-plinerved

(botany, of leaves) Indicating that the main nerves are lateral and arise from a point distinctly above the base of the leaf. Combined with a numerical prefix: 3-plinerved, 5-plinerved, etc.


poetaz

(botany, attributive) Being or relating to hybrids of the plants Narcissus poeticus and Narcissus tazetta.


erythroxylaceous

(botany) Belonging or relating to the Erythroxylaceae.


orobanchaceous

(botany) Belonging to the family Orobanchaceae, plants mostly parasitic on the roots of other plants.


volubilate

volubilate (comparative more volubilate, superlative most volubilate)

more volubilate (comparative)
most volubilate (superlative)


mastigophoran

(botany) Any member of the genus Mastigophora of liverworts.


amaryllid

From the genus name Amaryllis, ultimately from Ancient Greek ἀμαρύσσω (amarússō, “dazzle”).

der

(botany) Any of the family Amaryllidaceae; an amaryllidaceous plant.


quamoclit

Also, quamoclits fit well into window boxes, especially when paired with other vines such as thunbergia, and they will cascade over a wall or spread over the ground, low shrubs and rocks.

1990, Jennifer Bennett, Turid Forsyth, The Harrowsmith annual garden:

(botany) Any plant of the former genus Quamoclit.


zoochorous

From zoochore + -ous or zoo- + -chorous.

(botany) Of or relating to zoochores or zoochory.


thunbergia

/θʌnˈbɜːrdʒiə/

Named after Carl Peter Thunberg, a Swedish botanist.

(botany) Any member of the genus Thunbergia of flowering plants.

susanna

any member of the genus Thunbergia of flowering plants


cheirolepidiaceous

(botany) Of or relating to the family Cheirolepidiaceae of extinct coniferous plants.


albiflorous

From New Latin albiflōrus (“white-flowered”).


lyginopteridalean

(botany) Any of the order Lyginopteridales of archetypal pteridosperms.


medullosalean

(botany) Any of the order Medullosales of pteridospermous seed plants characterised by large radiospermic ovules with a vascularised nucellus, complex pollen-organs, stems and rachises with a dissected stele, and frond-like leaves.


leucojum

(botany) Any member of either of the species of the genus Leucojum, from the amaryllid family:

Leucojum aestivum (summer snowflake, Loddon lily)

Leucojum vernum (spring snowflake, snowbell, dewdrop, St. Agnes' flower)


distolateral

(anatomy, botany) Both distal and lateral


distodorsal

(anatomy, botany) Both distal and dorsal


obtrullate

(botany) In the form of a reversed trowel (with longer sides meeting at the base)


megaflora

en-noun

megaflora (plural megafloras or megaflora)


stylopodial

(botany) Relating to, or containing a stylopodium


axophyte

From Ancient Greek ἄξων (áxōn, “axis”) + -phyte (“plant”).


craspedophyte

Ancient Greek κράσπεδον (kráspedon, “edge, border”) + -phyte (“plant”)


dendrophyte

From dendro- (“tree”) + -phyte (“plant”).


phyllophyte

From German Phyllophyt. Surface reading: phyllo- (“leaf”) + -phyte (“plant”).

(botany, rare) A plant characterized as structurally based upon or possessing true leaves.


spermaphyte

Ancient Greek σπέρμα (spérma, “seed”) + -phyte (“plant”)

(botany) Alternative form of spermatophyte


circumsaccate

(botany) Surrounding the saccus of a pollen grain


trilete

(botany, of a spore) Having three lines indicating the splitting axes.


monolete

(botany, of a spore) Having a single line indicating the splitting axis.


topsetting

(botany) That produces bulbils at the tops of the leaves rather than the seed heads.


tenuinucellate

(botany) Having no nucellar tissue separating the embryo sac and the epidermis


astichous

en-adj

astichous (comparative more astichous, superlative most astichous)

more astichous (comparative)
most astichous (superlative)

(botany) having a structure or layout that is not in rows


arrhizous

arrhizous (comparative more arrhizous, superlative most arrhizous)

more arrhizous (comparative)
most arrhizous (superlative)

(botany) Having no root: applied to parasitical plants which have no root, but adhere to other plants by any part of their surface, and derive their nourishment from them; also to mosses and Hepaticœ which are destitute of rhizoids.


interveinal

In E. tereticornis, deficiency begins as interveinal chlorosis [yellowing] of young leaves with tissue near the veins remaining green.

2000, P. J. Keane, Diseases and Pathogens of Eucalypts, →ISBN, page 392:

(chiefly botany) Occurring between veins.


perennation

(botany) The ability of an organism to survive from one germinating season to the next, especially under unfavourable conditions such as drought or winter.


simaroubaceous

(botany) Belonging to the family Simaroubaceae of tropical and subtropical trees.


detriticolous

detriticolous (comparative more detriticolous, superlative most detriticolous)

more detriticolous (comparative)
most detriticolous (superlative)


calcicolous

calcicolous (comparative more calcicolous, superlative most calcicolous)

more calcicolous (comparative)
most calcicolous (superlative)

(botany) That thrives in calcareous soil.


deserticolous

deserticolous (comparative more deserticolous, superlative most deserticolous)

more deserticolous (comparative)
most deserticolous (superlative)

It must be understood that for a deserticolous species the "interpretation" of what a barrier is may be different from that of a jungle species.

2013, Eduardo H Rapoport, Areography: Geographical Strategies of Species, page 124:


subfastigiately

H. praténse, Koch. Diœcious (in European specimens pseudomonœcious, Bryol. Europ.); stems ascending, divided, subfastigiately branched; branches sparingly ramulose cauline leaves subcomplanate, decurved at the apex (those of the branches secund-falcate), ovate-lanceolate, minutely serrulate above; capsue cernuous, incurved-oblong; operculum convex-conic.

1856, William Starling Sullivant, The musci and hepaticæ of the United States east of the Mississippi River, page 674:

Flowers in spirally-disposed 3-flowered clusters on the branches of a simply subfastigiately branched spadix, the female flower between and below two males.

1877, J. G. Baker, Flora of Mauritius and the Seychelles, page 383:

An erect slender herb, sparingly subfastigiately branched; branches towards their tips finely downy with hooked hairs.

1902, Sir George King, Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula, page 132:

(botany, obsolete) In a subfastigiate manner.


zygophyllaceous

(botany) Of or relating to the family Zygophyllaceae of bean-capers, caltrops, and related plants.


lygodium

(botany) Any of the genus Lygodium of climbing ferns.


anemotropism

(botany) The orientation of plants in response to the direction of the wind.


anthogenesis

(botany) The formation of the flowers of plants.


suberization

en-noun

suberization (usually uncountable, plural suberizations)

(botany) conversion of the cell walls into cork tissue by development of suberin; commonly taking place in exposed tissues, as when a callus forms over a wound.


chalazogamy

(botany) A process of fecundation in which the pollen tube penetrates to the embryo sac through the tissue of the chalaza, instead of entering through the micropyle.


ferndom

In ferndom all people are divided into two classes: the first, those who are in profound ignorance of these beautiful forms in the vegetable kingdom; the second, those who know almost everything about them and are full of enthusiasm, …

Staghorn ferns, with their antlerlike leaves, are really curios of ferndom and never fail to gain attention.

2013, Joan Lee Faust, The New York Times Garden Book, Revised:

(botany) The world of ferns; ferns collectively.


andropogon

(botany) Any member of the grass genus Andropogon.

andropogon

any member of the grass genus Andropogon


caulome

(botany) A stem structure or stem axis of a plant, viewed as a whole.


mimosaceous

(botany) Of or relating to the Mimosaceae.


exotegmic

In general, the mature endosperm shows a protein-rich outer layer and exotegmic cells have a zigzag pattern, while the exotesta is siliciferous.

1998, Klaus Kubitzki, H. Huber, The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants: Volume VI: Flowering Plants. Monocotyledons: Alismatanae and Commelinanae (except Gramineae), →ISBN, page 418:

(botany) Pertaining to the outer portion of the integument.


mesotegmic

The mesotegmic construction is rare and found in conjunction with either an exotegmen or an endotegmen.

2003, Roger D. Smith, Seed Conservation: Turning Science Into Practice, →ISBN, page 263:

(botany) Pertaining to the middle of the integument as opposed to the outer or inner epidermis of the integument.


endotegmic

Mesotegmic seeds with coats derived from the middle layer are rare, while endotegmic seeds with coats derived from the innermost layer of the inner integument are present in, for example, the black pepper family (Piperaceae).

2012, J. Derek Bewley, Kent Bradford, Henk Hilhorst, Seeds: Physiology of Development, Germination and Dormancy, 3rd edition., →ISBN, page 36:

(botany) Pertaining to the inner epidermis of the integument.


pandanaceous

(botany) Of or relating to the plant family Pandanaceae.


zoomorphosis

(botany) The formation of a plant structure (such as a gall) by means of animal activity


suberize

en-verb

suberize (third-person singular simple present suberizes, present participle suberizing, simple past and past participle suberized)

suberizes (present singular third-person)
suberizing (participle present)
suberized (participle past)
suberized (past)

(botany, transitive) To effect suberization of.


angle-shoot

The fact that for the greater part of its length the angle-shoot has the same structure as a normal stem is what would be expected; it does not, in my opinion, prove that the former is not a transformed rhizophore.

1934, Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh:

(botany) A side shoot that grows from the main stem stem.


angle shoot

Removal of the young developing leaves below the apical bud on the main shoot, especially when done twice, has increased branching and produced wider angle shoots, and enhanced feathering for slender spindle trees

2013, C. J. Wright, Manipulation of Fruiting, →ISBN, page 346:

(botany) Alternative form of angle-shoot


lolium

(botany) Any of the genus Lolium of ryegrasses.


distylous

(botany) Having two types of styles and/or stamens


phoenicoid

(botany) Belonging or relating to the palms of the subfamily Phoenicoideae.


chamaedoroid

(botany) Belonging or relating to the palms of the genus Chamaedorea.


coryphoid

(botany) Any palm of the subfamily Coryphoideae


ceroxyloid

(botany) Belonging or relating to the palms of the subfamily Ceroxyloideae.


calamoid

(botany) Belonging or relating to the palms of the subfamily Calamoideae.


nypoid

(botany) Belonging or relating to the palms of the subfamily Nypoideae.


arecoid

(botany) Belonging or relating to the palms of the subfamily Arecoideae.


borassoid

(botany) Belonging or relating to the palms of the subfamily Borassoideae, now considered to be the tribe Borasseae.


sabaloid

(botany) Belonging or relating to the palms of the subfamily Sabaloideae, now considered to be the tribe Sabaleae.


lepidocaryoid

(botany) Belonging or relating to the palms of the subfamily Lepidocaryoideae.


cocosoid

(botany) Belonging or relating to the palms of the subfamily Cocosoideae.


verrucate

en-adj

verrucate (comparative more verrucate, superlative most verrucate)

more verrucate (comparative)
most verrucate (superlative)

(botany, of a pollen grain) having verrucae


cyrillaceous

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the plant family Cyrillaceae.


simarouba

(botany) Any plant of the genus Simarouba.


unitunicate

(botany) Enclosed in a single tunic-like layer


bitunicate

(botany) Enclosed in two tunic-like layers


xerophytism

(botany) The adaptation of plants to habitats where water is scarce.


klendusic

klendusic (comparative more klendusic, superlative most klendusic)

more klendusic (comparative)
most klendusic (superlative)

klendusic seeds


klendusity

From Ancient Greek κλειδόω (kleidóō, “I lock up”) (see κλείς) + ἔνδυσις (éndusis, “entry”) (see ἐνδύω) + -ity, because the route of entry for pathogens is supposed to be locked up. The word is a clumsy coinage; a more systematic approach would have involved cleido-.


pleiochasium

(botany) An inflorescence in which several buds come out at the same time


podcase

In some species, this selective pressure was not local but species-wide; evolution in maize, for example, turned the hard podcase of teosinte into easily milled, but still glumed, pod-corns and then into naked-grained cobs 41, 42 .

2009 February 11, Dorian Q. Fuller Michael D. Purugganan, “The nature of selection during plant domestication”, in Nature, volume 457, number 7231, →DOI, pages 843–848:


caulescence

Meanwhile, their caulescence distribution falls above both axons and dendrites, similar to maximum branch order.

2015 July 10, Todd A Gillette, Giorgio A Ascoli, “Topological characterization of neuronal arbor morphology via sequence representation: I - motif analysis”, in BMC Bioinformatics, volume 16, →DOI:

(botany, neurology) The degree to which something, such as a plant or neuron, has a well-formed main stem.


cycas

(botany) Any member of the plant genus Cycas.


rhizodeposition

en-noun

rhizodeposition (countable and uncountable, plural rhizodepositions)

Third, plants exposed to elevated CO 2 can produce larger amounts of organic compounds that enter the soil via rhizodeposition and litterfall [16 ].

2015 July 6, “Effects of Long-Term CO 2 Enrichment on Soil-Atmosphere CH 4 Fluxes and the Spatial Micro-Distribution of Methanotrophic Bacteria”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:

(botany) The release of organic compounds from plant roots into the surrounding environment


stiped

(botany) Having a stipe (of a specified kind).


stokesia

(botany) Any of the plants in the genus Stokesia.


hemiorbicular

Flowers solitary, arising from main trunks and older branches, pendent; pedicels 19–25 mm long, 1.5–2.5 mm in diam., glabrous; bracts 3–4, very broadly triangular to hemiorbicular, ca. 1.6 mm long, brownish pubescent outside, glabrous inside, margin sometimes ciliate.

2015, Shuichiro Tagane et al., “Goniothalamus flagellistylus Tagane & V. S. Dang (Annonaceae), a new species from Mt. Hon Ba, Vietnam”, in PhytoKeys, volume 1, →DOI:


pseudostyle

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-pseudostyle.wav

(botany) The hidden part of the stigmatic crest


psilate

Microsporangia in 2 dorsal rows; microspores orange, psilate marginally to rugulate towards the center with granulate microstructure on proximal faces, rugulate-cristate or cristate with broad baculate-like projections and granulate microstructure on distal faces, 28–40 µm.

2015, Iván A. Valdespino et al., “Seven new species of Selaginella subg. Stachygynandrum (Selaginellaceae) from Brazil and new synonyms for the genus”, in PhytoKeys, volume 9, →DOI:

(botany, of a pollen grain wall) Lacking ornamentation; having very small scabrae.


suberect

Heringer & Salino sp. nov. urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:77147604-1 Figures 14, 15 Selaginella sematophylla differs chiefly from Selaginella vestiens in having (vs. lacking) idioblasts on upper surfaces of median leaves and dorsal sporophylls and on lower surfaces of lateral leaves, and by its acute (vs. acuminate to aristate, 0.4–0.7 mm) median leaves, and creeping (vs. ascending to suberect) habit.


subdimorphic

Selaginella saltuicola is unique among other species here described by its apparent adaptation to very wet areas near waterfalls and perhaps even partially submerged in water along creek banks in Cerrado vegetation.

(botany) Normally monomorphic but sometimes dimorphic


subentire

Leaves in a basal rosette and cauline, 0.5–7.5 (-9.5) × 0.1–2.2 cm; subsessile; blade narrowly lanceolate to elliptic, margin subentire to shallowly sinuate-dentate.

2015, Warren L. Wagner, Peter C. Hoch, James L. Zarucchi, “The correct name in Oenothera for Gaura drummondii (Onagraceae)”, in PhytoKeys, volume 64, →DOI:

(botany) Almost entire (having just a few indentations)


hemicordate

Lateral leaves imbricate or distant, spreading, broadly ovate to ovate-oblong, 2.5–4.0 × 1.3–2.3 mm; bases rounded or hemicordate, acroscopic bases strongly overlapping stems, basiscopic bases free from stems; acroscopic margins greenish or hyaline in band 2–4 cells wide, the cells elongate and papillate parallel to margins, papillae in 1 row over each cell lumen, long-ciliate along proximal ½–⅔ and serrulate to entire distally, basiscopic margins greenish or narrowly hyaline in a band 1 or 2 cells wide, the cells as along acroscopic margins, entire or entire along proximal ¾ and serrulate along distal ¼, apices mucronate or obtuse, tipped by 2 or 3 teeth; upper surfaces comprising rounded to quadrangular, sinuate-walled cells, most of these covered by 5–10 papillae, without idioblasts or stomata, lower surfaces comprising elongate, sinuate-walled cells, few of these papillate and idioblast-like, papillae in 1 row over each cell lumen, with stomata in 2 or 3 rows along midribs.


wogonin

Heat-processed Scutellariae Radix leads to an increase in the contents of major flavonoids such as baicalin, baicalein, and wogonin.

2015 June 18, Yu Ock Shin et al., “Heat-Processed Scutellariae Radix Enhances Anti-Inflammatory Effect against Lipopolysaccharide-Induced Acute Lung Injury in Mice via NF-κB Signaling”, in Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine : eCAM, volume 2015, →DOI:

(botany, organic chemistry) An O-methylated flavone found in Scutellaria baicalensis, and used in treating certain medical conditions.


semideciduous

Whereas H. albomarginatus and H. semilineatus occur in low and mid altitudes and are mostly restricted to the evergreen or semideciduous components of the Atlantic Forest in eastern Brazil, H. faber has a broader altitudinal range and also inhabits mixed and deciduous areas, occupying interior and coastal sites in the Atlantic Forest south to Paraguay and Argentina (figs. S1 and S2) ( 13 ).

2009 February 6, Ana Carolina Carnaval et al., “Stability Predicts Genetic Diversity in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest Hotspot”, in Science, volume 323, number 5915, →DOI, pages 785–789:

(botany) Describing plants that lose their leaves for a short time (as new leaves begin to grow)


ramularia

" For instance, breeding barley that resists ramularia, a disease that emerged in 1998, "will take at least 10 years.

2009 January 23, Sara Coelho, “AGRICULTURE: European Pesticide Rules Promote Resistance, Researchers Warn”, in Science, volume 323, number 5913, →DOI:

(phytopathology) A disease of barley, more fully ramularia leaf spot, caused by fungi of the genus Ramularia


sclerophylly

The morphological differences to sclerophylly are relatively few and mainly found in the amounts of sclerenchyma, leaf shape, and margins.

2015 July 15, “Biogeography of Mediterranean Hotspot Biodiversity: Re-Evaluating the 'Tertiary Relict' Hypothesis of Macaronesian Laurel Forests”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:

(botany) The condition of being sclerophyllous


polyachene

(botany) A fruit containing multiple achenes


softleaf

(botany) Having soft leaves (in the names of various plants).


choisya

I use roses and grasses such as stipa, sweet william and tulips, with structural stuff such as the evergreen shrubs choisya and danae.

2015 July 25, Naomi Slade, “How does your garden grow? Kevin Martin, Glyndebourne, East Sussex”, in The Guardian:

(botany) Any of the genus Choisya of aromatic evergreen shrubs in the rue family, Rutaceae.


poricidal

The ancestral states for these are a corolla tube that is equal to slightly longer than the lobes, is inflated on the lower surface, two fertile stamens with poricidal dehiscence, and an exserted style that is bent downward (Fig. 8).

2015 July 3, Zhi-Jing Qiu et al., “Origin and evolution of Petrocosmea (Gesneriaceae) inferred from both DNA sequence and novel findings in morphology with a test of morphology-based hypotheses”, in BMC Plant Biology, volume 15, →DOI:


aerophore

Segments with more than 25 pairs of veins; indusium minute, ciliate. soon disappearing; a linear-attenuate brown aerophore present at base of each pinna 16.

1977, Richard Alden Howard, Flora of the Lesser Antilles: Proctor, G. R. Pteridophyta, page 276:

In most species the dorsolateral aerophore line is conspicuous throughout the length of the stipe, generally being somewhat paler in colour than the surrounding tissue.

2000, Bothalia - Volumes 30-31, page 61:

(botany) A thin-walled area of the roots of some plants growing in swampy conditions through which gasses are exchanged.


nelumbium

It must be understood that while the nelumbiums are hardy, they are so only as long as the tubers are out of the reach of frost.

1947, Liberty Hyde Bailey, The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture:

(botany) Any member of the former plant genus Nelumbium.


monophylly

(botany) The condition of being monophyllous (having a single leaf).


clinandrium

(botany) An area at the tip of the column of orchid flowers, beneath the anthers.


galtonia

From the genus name, after Sir Francis Galton.

(botany) Any of the genus Galtonia of plants in the family Asparagaceae, native to southern Africa.


gesneria

From the genus name, after Conrad Gessner.

(botany) Any of the genus Gesneria of flowering plants in the family Gesneriaceae.


philadelphus

No garden can afford to neglect the philadelphuses, because not only are the flowers full of refinement and beauty, but often most fragrant and arrive in June and July when the chief flowering period of shrubs is over.

1952, Charles Cuthbert Eley, Twentieth century gardening, page 167:

(botany) Any of the genus Philadelphus of shrubs.


raoulia

(botany) Any of the genus Raoulia of New Zealand plants in the pussytoes tribe (Gnaphalieae) within the daisy family (Asteraceae).


anthocyanosis

Instead of the initial necrotic symptoms typical of PD, the lower leaves (closest to the inoculation zones) of inoculated plants showed prominent anthocyanosis with green veinal areas (Fig 4C and 4D ).

2015 July 29, “Three New Pierce's Disease Pathogenicity Effectors Identified Using Xylella fastidiosa Biocontrol Strain EB92-1”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:

(botany) A purple discolouration of flowers (due to a virus)


halo blight

(phytopathology) A bacterial disease of bean plants, caused by Pseudomonas syringae pv. phaseolicola.


early blight

(phytopathology) A disease of tomato and potato plants caused by the fungus Alternaria solani, producing distinctive bullseye-patterned leaf spots, stem lesions, fruit rot on tomato and tuber blight on potato.


peachleaf

(botany, in plant names) Whose leaves resemble those of the peach.


red rot

(phytopathology) A disease of sugar cane caused by the fungus Glomerella tucumanensis.


hercogamy

(botany) Alternative spelling of herkogamy


diclinism

(botany) The state of having stamens or pistils in separate flowers.


scaberulous

en-adj

scaberulous (comparative more scaberulous, superlative most scaberulous)

more scaberulous (comparative)
most scaberulous (superlative)


loculamentous

(botany, rare) Full of loculaments, or little cells.


russeted

russeted (comparative more russeted, superlative most russeted)

more russeted (comparative)
most russeted (superlative)

While the European pear is, at its finest, buttery and surrenders to the slightest pressure, Asian pears are firm, very crisp, hugely juicy and sweet and, in some cases, highly aromatic – spicy almost. Some are smooth-skinned, others lightly russeted.

2015 September 5, Mark Diacono, “In praise of the Asian pear”, in The Daily Telegraph (Gardening), archived from the original on 2015-09-12, pages 1–2:

(botany) Having a rough skin that is reddish-brown or greyish; russet.


cymbidium

A recent arrangement of soaring glass vases, green calla lilies, green anthuriums, pale green cymbidium orchids and gnarled, sandblasted manzanita branches had guests gathered around it in awe.

2009 May 23, Donna Yawching, Toronto Star:

A bell chimes as you open the door, and fans swirl below a pressed-tin ceiling. Cymbidiums, cattleyas and other flowering orchids are presented in decorative pots on round tables.

2019 April 10, Adrian Higgins, “This florist started caring for ailing orchids on the side. He’s now babysitting 13,000.”, in The Washington Post:

(botany) Any orchid of the genus Cymbidium.


subapocarpous

Flowers often irregular; disc usually annular, adnate to the stamens or reduced to glands, rarely absent; ovary multicarpellary, syncarpous or subapocarpous; ovules one to two, rarely numerous in each carpel, ascending or pendulous; raphe usually ventral.

1879, Otto Wilhelm Thomé, Alfred William Bennett, Text-book of Structural and Physiological Botany, Celastrales, page 407:

Apocarpous fruits are the ancestral state in Acronychia and subapocarpous and fully syncarpous fruits are derived.

2015 August 25, “Phylogeny of Acronychia (Rutaceae) and First Insights into Its Historical Biogeography and the Evolution of Fruit Characters”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:

(botany) Having the carpels partially joined.


washingtonia

(botany) Any fan palm of the genus Washingtonia.


chionodoxa

Adapted to the same uses as the chionodoxas and following them at a little later date, it is suited to positions ranging from the rockery to naturalization in grasslands.

1934, David Griffiths, Bulbs from Seed, page 22:

Smaller flowers such as chionodoxa are better under shrubs where they can create great pools of blue.

2015 October 17, Alys Fowler, “Alys Fowler: now’s the time to plant a swath of crocuses”, in The Guardian:

(botany) Any plant of the former genus Chionodoxa.


protocarnivorous

/ˌpɹəʊtəkɑːˈnɪvəɹəs/

Recently, a new distinction has been made between the classical carnivorous plants, terrestrial or aquatic, and the newly discovered protocarnivorous plants.

1998, Pierre Jolivet, Interrelationship Between Insects and Plants, CRC Press, page 101:

Pinedrops and other protocarnivorous species have an advantage over other plants in situations where soil nitrogen is scarce.

2007, Carolyn Dodson, William W. Dunmire, Mountain Wildflowers of the Southern Rockies: Revealing Their Natural History, University of New Mexico Press, page 45:

The abundance of dead and decaying animals turns the traps into attractive habits for different organisms. Carnivorous and protocarnivorous plants employ two different strategies to face this challenge: […]

2011, Janek von Byern, Ingo Grunwald, editors, Biological Adhesive Systems, Springer Science & Business Media, page 24:

(botany, of a plant) Capable of trapping and killing insects or other animals but lacking the ability to digest or absorb nutrients from its prey.


ectohydric

These two species are ectohydric and take up N with water from precipitation [34 ].

2015 September 17, “Diversification of Nitrogen Sources in Various Tundra Vegetation Types in the High Arctic”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:

(botany) That transports water on its external surface


endohydric

In contrast, Polytrichastrum alpinum (Polytrichospida) is endohydric and transports water up from the underlying soil [35 ].

(botany) That transports water internally


boltonia

(botany) Any member of genus Boltonia of plants in the sunflower family; doll's daisy.


clintonia

(botany) Any of the genus Clintonia of herbaceous perennials.


coprosma

(botany) Any of the plants in the genus Coprosma.


davidia

(botany) Any of the genus Davidia of flowering trees.


rodgersia

(botany) Any member of the genus Rodgersia.


ruellia

(botany) Any member of the genus Ruellia of flowering plants.


self-pollinating

From self- + pollinating, from self-pollination.

(botany) relating to plants that pollinate themselves, either with pollen from the same flower or from a neighbouring flower on the same plant.


fatshedera

(botany) A hybrid of flowering plants of the genera Fatsia and Hedera (× Fatshedera).


agynary

(botany) The absence of female organs, such as on double flowers which have petals but no pistils.


choripetalous

In dicotyledons that do not form a calyx, like the buttercups, the corollas are always choripetalous.

1986, Ernst Michael Kranich, Planetary Influences Upon Plants:

(botany) Having separate, unconnected petals; polypetalous.


hamamelidaceous

From translingual Hamamelidaceae + -ous.

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Hamamelidaceae.


plumbaginaceous

(botany) Belonging to the Plumbaginaceae.


poaceous

(botany) Belonging to the family Poaceae of grasses.


sarraceniaceous

(botany) Belonging to the Sarraceniaceae.


thymelaeaceous

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Thymelaeaceae.


carduaceous

(botany) Belonging to the Carduaceae of plants.


amaranthaceous

suffix

translingual <i class="Latn mention" lang="mul">Amaranthaceae</i>

(botany) Belonging to the family Amaranthaceae of amaranths and goosefoots.


betulaceous

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Betulaceae.


anauxotelic

(botany) Having the characteristic that growth does not continue beyond the flowering region.


auxotelic

(botany) Having the characteristic that growth continues beyond the flowering region into a leafy shoot.


needleleaf

(botany) Used in the names of plants that have long narrow leaves.


bombacaceous

(botany) Belonging to the now disused family Bombacaceae (now the much-reduced subfamily Bombacoideae in Malvaceae).


balsaminaceous

(botany) Belonging to the Balsaminaceae.


caesalpiniaceous

(botany) Belonging to the family Caesalpiniaceae, now usually subfamily Caesalpinioideae, of peacock flowers and close relatives.


capparidaceous

(botany) Belonging to the family Capparidaceae (preferred: Capparaceae) of capers and close relatives.


collinsia

(botany) Any member of the plant genus Collinsia.


cleome

(botany) Any flowering plant in the genus Cleome.


cistaceous

(botany) Belonging to the family Cistaceae of rockroses.


crassulaceous

(botany) Belonging to the family Crassulaceae of succulents, principally herbaceous.


cornaceous

(botany) Belonging to the family Cornaceae of trees and shrubs including dogwoods and tupelos.


tetrastichous

(botany) Arranged in four vertical rows.


vitaceous

(botany) Of or relating to the family Vitaceae of vines including grape.


stenopetalous

en-adj

stenopetalous (comparative more stenopetalous, superlative most stenopetalous)

more stenopetalous (comparative)
most stenopetalous (superlative)


dehybridization

(botany) The production of genetically stable offspring from an F1 hybrid


erigeron

(botany) Any member of the plant genus Erigeron.


brachysm

From Ancient Greek βραχύς (brakhús, “short”); compare brachy-.

Some forms of disordered growth have been recognized in the United States, such as tomosis or leafcut, and brachysm or shortening of the internodes of the fruiting branches.

1916, US Bureau of Plant Industry, Report of the Chief, page 23:

In teosinte there is no such indication of brachysm, all branches having elongated internodes. The first indication of the contamination of teosinte with maize is in the direction of brachysm, as instanced by a shortening of the pistillate rachis, resulting in displacing the alignment of the seeds and a shortening also of the lateral vegetative branches.

1924, Journal of Agricultural Research, volume 27, page 578:

The intermittent brachysm of line 59 was recessive to the non-brachytic, normal condition.

1957, Proceedings of the American Society for Horticultural Science, volume 70, page 102:

(botany) Unusually small size resulting from the shortening of internodes.


alkaloidiferous

alkaloidiferous (comparative more alkaloidiferous, superlative most alkaloidiferous)

more alkaloidiferous (comparative)
most alkaloidiferous (superlative)

(botany) Containing, or yielding alkaloids


simarubaceous

(botany) Belonging to the family Simaroubaceae of tropical and subtropical trees.


alismataceous

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Alismataceae.


aquifoliaceous

(botany) Belonging to the Aquifoliaceae.


bryophyllum

/ˌbɹaɪəˈfɪləm/

(botany) Any of the genus Bryophyllum of plants in the family Crassulaceae.


kobresia

Alpine meadows, primarily composed of Sichuan kobresia (Kobresia setchwanensis) made up a smaller proportion of the tree-line mosaic.

2016 January 20, “Effects of Supplementary Feeding on the Breeding Ecology of the Buff-Throated Partridge in a Tibetan Sacred Site, China”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:

(botany) Any member of the genus Kobresia of plants in the sedge family.


salviniaceous

(botany) Belonging to the family Salviniaceae.


schefflera

(botany) Any of the genus Schefflera of flowering plants in the family Araliaceae.


sidalcea

(botany) Any of the genus Sidalcea of checkerblooms or checkermallows.


scale leaf

An individual flower that is subtended by a scale leaf at its junction with the stem of a plant; a rudimentary leaf.

(botany) A small flat leaf resembling a scale, such as on many conifers.

(botany) A small modified leaf, especially a colorless membranous one, such as on a rhizome or forming part of a bulb.


danthonia

(botany) Any of the genus Danthonia of Eurasian, North African, and American grasses.


lichenization

en-noun

lichenization (usually uncountable, plural lichenizations)

(lichenology) The process by which a fungus becomes a mycobiont of a lichen.


polycladous

From poly- + Ancient Greek κλάδος (kládos, “shoot, branch”) + -ous.


iresine

(botany) Any of the genus Iresine of flowering plants in the amaranth family.


sternbergia

(botany) Any of the genus Sternbergia of Eurasian and North African plants in the Amaryllis family.


loganiaceous

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Loganiaceae.


phragmospore

(botany) A plant spore that has multiple transverse septa


dehybridize

en-verb

dehybridize (third-person singular simple present dehybridizes, present participle dehybridizing, simple past and past participle dehybridized)

dehybridizes (present singular third-person)
dehybridizing (participle present)
dehybridized (participle past)
dehybridized (past)

(botany) To produce genetically stable offspring from an F1 hybrid


spring ephemeral

en-noun

spring ephemeral (plural spring ephemerals)

Every year on Earth Day, I try to go for a hike in the woods near my house. I look for tadpoles and admire the spring ephemerals.

2020 April, Elizabeth Kolbert, “Why we won't avoid a climate catastrophehttps://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2020/04/why-we-wont-avoid-a-climate-catastrophe-feature/”, in National Geographic:

(botany) A plant that grows in the spring and goes dormant in summer.


orthostichous

Accumulation of the dye followed orthostichous patterns wherein the dye tended to accumulate in half of each leaf not vertically aligned with the inoculation leaf (leaves 1, 2, and 4), and in the whole of each leaf vertically aligned with the inoculation leaf (leaves 3 and 5).

2015 November 11, “Horizontal Transmission of”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:


phototrophism

(botany) Alternative spelling of phototropism


anthocarp

(botany) Any of various forms of fruits in which part of the perianth tissue remains attached to the fruit, as part of the mechanism of dispersal.

(botany) Lower part of a perianth containing the fruit, the upper part having dropped away, well seen in plants of the family Nyctaginaceae.

(botany) In the Nyctaginaceae, individual apetalous flowers have a tubular, petaloid calyx that resembles a sympetalous corolla. The lower portion of the calyx tightly enwraps the one-seeded achene and is persistent around the fruit as an anthocarp. The calyx base plus the enclosed seed-bearing achene is the unit of dispersal.

(botany) A collective, composite or aggregated fruit formed from an entire inflorescence, as in the sorosis of a pineapple or the syconus of a fig.

(botany) A fruit resulting from many flowers, such as the pineapple; a fruit of which the perianth or the torus forms part.

(botany) A composite false fruit, consisting of the actual fruit and the perianth.

(botany) A fruit formed by the union of the floral organs or part of them, with the fruit itself, as in Nyctagineae; also applied to fruits with accessories, sometimes termed pseudocarps, as the strawberry and pineapple.


triodia

A few of the triodias are good forage grasses, but others are of little value.

(botany) Any grass of the genus Triodia.


pseudotrichome

(botany) A structure similar to a trichome


spermagonium

(lichenology) Alternative spelling of spermogonium


phellem

phellem (countable and uncountable, plural phellems)

(botany) cork (dead protective tissue between the bark and cambium in woody plants)


cedrelaceous

(botany) Relating to the plant family Cedrelaceae, now subfamily Cedreloideae in family Meliaceae.


clusia

From the genus name Clusia, named after Carolus Clusius.

(botany) Any member of the genus Clusia of flowering plants in the family Clusiaceae.


clusiaceous

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Clusiaceae.


cyclanthaceous

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the family Cyclanthaceae.


enphytotic

(botany, of a plant disease) That is present constantly from year to year without causing extensive damage.


enphytotic

(botany, of a plant disease) A disease that is consistently prevalent in a population of plants in a limited region, season, or climate.


polydrupe

Fruit type included four categories (1: berry; 2: drupe; 3: polydrupe and pseudo-polydrupe; 4: other fruit with complex structures: pseudo-fruit, complex fruit, multilocular capsule, aril); fruit colour at maturity included six categories (1: black; 2: red; 3: pink; 4: orange/light brown; 5: white; 6: blue); fruit shape included two categories (1: spherical; 2: oval) and fruit skin texture, three categories (1: smooth and waxy, glossy, shiny; 2: smooth and pruinose; 3: rough, irregular).

2015 November 19, “The Wide Potential Trophic Niche of the Asiatic Fruit Fly Drosophila suzukii : The Key of Its Invasion Success in Temperate Europe?”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:

(botany) Any fruit that is an aggregate of multiple drupes


anthericum

/ænˈθɛɹɪkəm/

(botany) Any member of the genus Anthericum of rhizomatous perennial plants in the family Asparagaceae.


leafbase

(botany) The base of a leaf, where it joins the stem.


tuberize

en-verb

tuberize (third-person singular simple present tuberizes, present participle tuberizing, simple past and past participle tuberized)

tuberizes (present singular third-person)
tuberizing (participle present)
tuberized (participle past)
tuberized (past)

(botany, intransitive) To develop tubers.


tuberization

en-noun

tuberization (countable and uncountable, plural tuberizations)

Several reports indicate high levels of cytokinins (CKs) in leaves of induced potato plants, but the connection with tuberization is not clear.

2002, Lalit M. Srivastava, Plant Growth and Development: Hormones and Environment:


citroid

(botany) Belonging to the tribe Citreae or related plants.


extragynoecial

As with most Annonaceae, however, Disepalum flowers are apocarpous, and so it is hypothesized that pollen tubes are likely to be able to grow between contiguous carpels: this extragynoecial growth of pollen tubes has been reported in other apocarpous angiosperms [97 ,98 ,99 ].

2015 December 3, “Phylogenetic Reconstruction, Morphological Diversification and Generic Delimitation of Disepalum (Annonaceae)”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:


intercarpellary

We also suggest that the formation of pollen octads may be selectively advantageous when pollinator visits are infrequent, although this would only be applicable if multiple ovules could be fertilized by each octad; since the flowers are apocarpous, this would require an extragynoecial compitum to enable intercarpellary growth of pollen tubes.


food tree

Only the main food tree crops - coconut, sago, breadfruit, pandanus, and banana - are discussed here; ...

2000 Kenneth F. Kiple and Kriemhild Coneè Ornelas, eds., "V.E.3/The Pacific Islands, Tree Crops," The Cambridge World History of Food, Cambridge University Press. p. 1355

We examine the potential role of perennial woody food-producing species ("food trees") in cities in the context of urban sustainable development...

2013 July, Kyle H. Clark, Kimberly A. Nicholas, “Introducing urban food forestry: a multifunctional approach to increase food security and provide ecosystem services”, in Landscape Ecology:

2015 Bhaskar Vira, Christoph Wildburger, and Stephanie Mansourian, Forests and Food: Addressing Hunger and Nutrition Across Sustainable Landscapes, Open Book Publishers. pp. 54, 260.
Research should support food tree domestication options appropriate for meeting smallholders' needs

(botany) A tree cultivated or managed for edible products (such as leaves, seeds) that are used for human consumption (term either including or used in opposition to "fruit tree")

Because several trails from various directions lead into that food tree, you may not be certain where to place your treestand.

1992, John E. Phillips, The Science of Deer Hunting, Larsen's Outdoor Publishing, page 104:

(botany) A tree whose products are consumed by animals or wildlife.


pandanalean

(botany) Belonging to the plant order Pandanales.


paragynous

Main differences were the prevalence of paragynous instead of amphigynous antheridia, the formation of chlamydospores and a maximum temperature for growth of 35°C. For the remaining two taxa, preliminary morphological examination and ITS sequence analysis showed they could not be assigned to any formally described species or informally designated taxon of Phytophthora, hence detailed phylogenetic and taxonomic analyses were carried out.

2015 December 10, “Diversity of Phytophthora Species from Declining Mediterranean Maquis Vegetation, including Two New Species, Phytophthora crassamura and P. ornamentata sp. nov.”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:

(botany) Incompletely surrounding the oogonial stalk


antholeucin

From Ancient Greek ἄνθος (ánthos, “flower”) and λευκός (leukós, “white”) and the suffix + -in.

The dissolved colouring-matters are, in white flowers, antholeucin, in blue anthocyanin.

1886, S. H. Vines, “Lecture XII”, in Lectures on the Physiology of Plants, page 242:

This in the case of yellow flowers is anthoxanthin; of white flowers, antholeucin; of blue flowers, anthocyanin, etc.

1889 December 14, J. H. Pillsbury, “Biological Notes”, in The American Monthly Microscopical Journal, volume 10, number 12, page 276:

There is such a thing as white flower-pigment (antholeucin), but in most cases the petals or sepals are white, just as foam is white, because of innumerable gas-bubbles in the cells.

1920, John Arthur Thomson, Biology of the Seasons, page 92:

(botany, obsolete) A substance isolated from flowers and thought to act as a white pigment.


laurophyll

(botany) Having broad, glossy leaves characteristic of the laurel.


marchantiaceous

(botany) Belonging to the Marchantiaceae family of liverworts.


flexistylous

It is a self-compatible, hermaphroditic, clonal, flexistylous perennial herb, usually 1–3 m tall.

2015 December 22, “Impact of Striped-Squirrel Nectar-Robbing Behaviour on Gender Fitness in Alpinia roxburghii Sweet (Zingiberaceae)”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:

(botany) Related to, or exhibiting flexistyly


flexistyly

A number of genera including Alpinia and Amomum (Zingiberaceae), exhibit interesting flexistyly polymorphisms which enhance fruit production by avoiding geitonogamy and promoting xenogamy.

(botany) A form of polymorphism in which the style and stigma of hermaphroditic flowers move over time.


cavendishia

(botany) Any of the genus Cavendishia of woody perennial plants.


jungermannioid

en-adj

jungermannioid (comparative more jungermannioid, superlative most jungermannioid)

more jungermannioid (comparative)
most jungermannioid (superlative)

The diversification of Sebacinales with jungermannioid interactions started during the Oligocene, and occurred much later than the diversification of their hosts.

2016 March 4, “Divergence Times and Phylogenetic Patterns of Sebacinales, a Highly Diverse and Widespread Fungal Lineage”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:

(botany) Characteristic of the genus Jungermannia of liverworts.


cavendishioid

cavendishioid (comparative more cavendishioid, superlative most cavendishioid)

more cavendishioid (comparative)
most cavendishioid (superlative)

Lineage radiations of the core group of ericoid and cavendishioid mycorrhizal Sebacinales started probably in the Eocene, coinciding with diversification events of their hosts.

(botany) Resembling the woody perennial plants of the genus Cavendishia.


logania

/ləʊˈɡeɪnɪə/

Borrowed from New Latin Logania (“the genus name”), after the botanist James Logan.

bor+

(botany) Any of the genus Logania of plants native to Australia and New Zealand.


summer branch drop

(pathology, botany, sylvaniculture, arboriculture) A syndrome in which a tree suddenly drops a large limb from its body, usually interpreted as being caused by stress due to heat waves, droughts or persistent hot weather.


tithonia

Many of our most popular flowers originated in Mexico including: marigolds, zinnias, nasturtiums, morning glories, cosmos, tithonias, sunflowers, verbenas, and many different sages.

2000, Rosalind Creasy, Edible Mexican Garden, page 11:

(botany) Any of the genus Tithonia of flowering plants in the sunflower tribe (Heliantheae) within the family Asteraceae.


laciniation

en-noun

laciniation (countable and uncountable, plural laciniations)

(botany, zoology) A laciniate form or appearance; division into deep, narrow, irregular lobes.


lanosity

Distinguished from H. crenulatus and allied species by the lanosity of the hands ; from H. oregonensis in its nearly straight and dilated front.

1907, Alfred Geddes Maddren, Smithsonian Exploration in Alaska in 1904: In Search of Mammoth and Other Fossil Remains, Smithsonian Institution, page 126:

1953, Reed Clark Rollins (editor-in-chief), Rhodora, Volume 55, New England Botanical Club, page 56,
Similar to typical A. frigida Meyer in its general appearance and technical characters, but the lanosity of the tegules and of the hypocephalum is completely lacking, being replaced by a fine glandulosity.

(botany, zoology, rare) The quality of being lanose, or woolly.


nemophila

(botany) Any plant of the genus Nemophila in the family Boraginaceae


ixora

He could see[…]some ragged red ixora hedges that need fixing up.

2022, Ayanna Lloyd Banwo, When We Were Birds, Hamish Hamilton, page 26:

(botany) Any of the flowering plants in the genus Ixora.


elepidote

(botany) Any plant that is not lepidote.


kaempferia

(botany) Any of the genus Kaempferia of plants in the ginger family, native to Asia.


enantiostylous

(botany) Exhibiting, or relating to, enantiostyly.


extrorsely

en-adv

extrorsely (comparative more extrorsely, superlative most extrorsely)

more extrorsely (comparative)
most extrorsely (superlative)


caducifolious

From Latin caducus (“that easily falls”) + folium (“leaf”).

compound

With a 8,514,877 km² territory size and six biomes (Amazon Forest (humid broad leaf forest), Caatinga (small woody and herbaceous deciduous, caducifolious, spiny species), Cerrado (open tree and shrub woodland [19 ]), Atlantic Forest (costal forest), Pantanal (tropical swampland) and Pampa (grasslands)) Brazil has records of just 17 species of these arachnids in all biomes, except in the Pampa where amblypygids are not found.

2016 February 18, “Eight New Species of Charinus Simon, 1892 (Arachnida: Amblypygi: Charinidae) Endemic for the Brazilian Amazon, with Notes on Their Conservational Status”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:


pleiomeric

Upon further changes these flowers became oligo- or pleiomeric.

1925, Botanical Abstracts - Volume 14, page 62:

As for the many species and varieties of angiosperms, horticultural or natural, with their pleiomeric and meiomeric floral members, petaloid stamens, staminoid petals, carpelloid stamens, etc., it would be difficult to assert absolutely whether we were concerned with disorganizations or neo-organizations.

1970, Claude Wilson Wardlaw, Cellular Differentiation in Plants: And Other Essays, page 141:

In the Celastrales and structurally similar Orders such as Rutales Malvales, Sapindales, the gynoecium appears, in different genera, to be either truly compound (connate ovaries derived from two or more female sporoclades) or falsely compound (expanded or pleiomeric derived from one female sporoclade only).

1983, P. J. Faulks, Early Ancestry and Evolution of the Higher Plants, page 60:

(botany) Having more than the usual number or variety of structures.


epiclinal

(botany) Situated on the receptacle or disk of a flower


airshoot

At the end of the vegetation period not only the flower-bearing airshoot, but also smaller or greater parts of the purely vegetative stems die away.

1933, Gunnar Seidenfaden, Paul Emil Elliot Gelting, Thorvald Julius Sørensen, The Vascular Plants of Northeast Greenland from 74 ̊30' to 79 ̊00' N. Lat. and a Summary of All Species Found in East Greenland, page 292:

To understand the genus more fully, the enthusiastic student should research its additional specialized structures such as rhizoids, airshoots, scales, bracts, bracteoles, and quadrifid glands.

2006, Barry A. Rice, Barry Meyers-Rice, Growing Carnivorous Plants, page 150:

The British species of Utricularia which produce 'earthshoots' never show the second form of modification, the 'airshoot' ( L in Fig. 65, p . 98), which occurs only in U. vulgaris and in the closely allied U. neglecta.

2010, Agnes Arber, Water Plants: A Study of Aquatic Angiosperms, page 97:

(botany) A filiform shoot of a water plant that floats on the surface of the water and contains bract-like organs.

As soon as the airshoots appear they should be hoed, and if the hoeing is continued so as to check the airshoots, the weed may ultimately be destroyed.

1914, Robert Patrick Wright, The Standard Cyclopedia of Modern Agriculture and Rural Economy, page 126:

(botany) A root-like structure that runs along the surface of the ground, putting down roots at a distance as a form of propagation.


tritonia

(botany) Any of the genus Tritonia of flowering plants in the iris family.


argemone

(botany) Any of the genus Argemone of flowering plants, the prickly poppies.


posticously

en-adv

posticously (comparative more posticously, superlative most posticously)

more posticously (comparative)
most posticously (superlative)

When incomplete, the deficiency, so far as I know at present, appears always to take place posticously.

1836, Madras literary society, John Carnac Morris, The Madras Journal of Literature and Science, Edited by J. C. Morris, F. R. S. Secretary of the Madras Literary Society, &c., The Auspices of the Madras Literary Society and Auxiliary of the Royal Asiatic Society, page 1836

Disc free, posticously dilated, fleshy. Ovary slightly laterally compressed, quadrangular (angles keeled), 2-celled g cells undivided, equal; ovules 2-seriate.

2014, William T. Thiselton-Dyer, Flora Capensis - Volume 4: Part 2 - Hydrophyllaceae to Pedalineae, Cambridge University Press, page 457

(botany, not comparable) In a manner with which, or a phytological conformation within which a physical aspect, especially the extrorse anther, is situated on the outer side of a filament.


mesocotyl

The bHLH genes R, B, Sn and Hopi were subsequently identified in maize and shown to induce tissue-specific anthocyanin biosynthesis, including expression in the aleurone layer, scutellum, pericarp, root, mesocotyl, leaf and anther.

2016 March 5, “The Tomato Hoffman’s Anthocyaninless Gene Encodes a bHLH Transcription Factor Involved in Anthocyanin Biosynthesis That Is Developmentally Regulated and Induced by Low Temperatures”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:

(botany) The white part of a plant's stem between the buried seed and the plumule


brownea

(botany) Any member of the genus Brownea.


caesalpinia

Learned borrowing from translingual Caesalpinia.

learned borrowing

(botany) Any member of the genus Caesalpinia.


arecaceous

(botany) Of or relating to the family Arecaceae of palms.


trialate

en-adj

trialate (comparative more trialate, superlative most trialate)

more trialate (comparative)
most trialate (superlative)

(entomology, botany) Having three wings or wing-like structures.


planophile

(botany) Having the leaves more or less horizontal.


erectophile

(botany) Having the leaves largely hanging vertically.


rosetophylous

It is a medium to large size rosetophylous plant producing 75 to 150 leaves broadly to narrowly lanceolate to oblanceolate, thick-fleshy, light green to yellow green.

2015 August 5, Ignacio Torres et al., “TEK, local perceptions of risk, and diversity of management practices of Agave inaequidens in Michoacán, Mexico”, in Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine, volume 11, →DOI:

(botany) Having the flowers arranged in rosettes


aceraceous

(botany) Belonging to the family Aceraceae of maples and close relatives, now subsumed in family Sapindaceae, especially its subfamily Hippocastanoideae.


actinidiaceous

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Actinidiaceae.


abietaceous

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Abietaceae.


zosterophyllaceous

From translingual Zosterophyllaceae + -ous.

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Zosterophyllaceae.


jasminaceous

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Jasminaceae.


zosteraceous

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Zosteraceae.


agapanthaceous

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Agapanthaceae.


julianiaceous

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Julianiaceae.


acrostichaceous

(botany) Belonging to the family Acrostichaceae.


winteraceous

(botany) Belonging to the family Winteraceae, the Winter's bark family.


williamsoniaceous

From translingual Williamsoniaceae + -ous.

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Williamsoniaceae.


vochysiaceous

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Vochysiaceae.


alismaceous

(botany) Belonging to the Alismaceae (syn. Alismataceae) of water plantains and close relatives.


viscaceous

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Viscaceae.


velloziaceous

(botany) Belonging to the family Velloziaceae of monocot plants.


vittariaceous

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Vittariaceae.


ficoidaceous

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Ficoidaceae.


flagellariaceous

From translingual Flagellariaceae + -ous.

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Flagellariaceae.


frankeniaceous

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Frankeniaceae.


fouquieriaceous

From translingual Fouquieriaceae + -ous.

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the plant family Fouquieriaceae.


uvulariaceous

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Uvulariaceae.


funariaceous

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Funariaceae.


fumariaceous

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Fumariaceae.


flacourtiaceous

(botany) Belonging to or formerly belonging to the family Flacourtiaceae.


vacciniaceous

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Vacciniaceae.


araucariaceous

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Araucariaceae.


fissidentaceous

(botany) Belonging to the Fissidentaceae.


ixerbaceous

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Ixerbaceae.


buxbaumiaceous

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Buxbaumiaceae group of mosses.


blechnaceous

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Blechnaceae.


aponogetonaceous

From translingual Aponogetonaceae + -ous.

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Aponogetonaceae.


misodendraceous

From translingual Misodendraceae + -ous.

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Misodendraceae.


juncaginaceous

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Juncaginaceae.


bixaceous

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Bixaceae.


avicenniaceous

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Avicenniaceae.


karkeniaceous

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Karkeniaceae.


illiciaceous

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Illiciaceae.


isoetaceous

(botany) Belonging to the family Isoetaceae.


putranjivaceous

From translingual Putranjivaceae + -ous.

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Putranjivaceae.


lardizabalaceous

From translingual Lardizabalaceae + -ous.

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Lardizabalaceae.


trochodendraceous

From translingual Trochodendraceae + -ous.

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Trochodendraceae.


stylidiaceous

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Stylidiaceae.


ochnaceous

(botany) Belonging to the family Ochnaceae.


bonnetiaceous

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Bonnetiaceae.


lepidoziaceous

(botany) Belonging to the Lepidoziaceae.


nyssaceous

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Nyssaceae.


rhizophoraceous

From translingual Rhizophoraceae + -ous.

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Rhizophoraceae.


osmundaceous

(botany) Belonging to the family Osmundaceae of ferns.


balanophoraceous

From translingual Balanophoraceae + -ous.

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Balanophoraceae.


onocleaceous

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Onocleaceae.


aspleniaceous

(botany) Belonging to the family Aspleniaceae of ferns.


atherospermataceous

From translingual Atherospermataceae + -ous.

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Atherospermataceae.


oenotheraceous

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Oenotheraceae.


tremandraceous

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Tremandraceae.


olacaceous

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Olacaceae.


hylocomiaceous

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Hylocomiaceae.


ophioglossaceous

(botany) Belonging to the family Ophioglossaceae of ferns.


davalliaceous

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Davalliaceae.


tofieldiaceous

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Tofieldiaceae.


humiriaceous

(botany) Belonging to the family Humiriaceae.


oliniaceous

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Oliniaceae.


orthotrichaceous

From translingual Orthotrichaceae + -ous.

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Orthotrichaceae.


buddlejaceous

This clade includes Scophulariaceae tribe Hemimerideae as well as the Myoporaceae (to which the formerly buddlejaceous Androya belongs; Oxelman et al. 1999).

2012, Joachim W. Kadereit, Flowering Plants: Dicotyledons: Lamiales (except Acanthaceae including Avicenniaceae), page 42:

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Buddlejaceae.


opuntiaceous

Early illustrations of opuntiaceous seeds: in his famous "Cactaceae of the Boundary" Engelmann (1859) provided the plate reproduced on the next page illustrating seeds and embryos of various North American (platy-) opuntias and cylindropuntias.

2002, David R. Hunt, Studies in the Opuntioideae (Cactaceae), page 26:

(botany, rare, obsolete) Belonging to the family Opuntiaceae (now mostly subfamily Opuntioideae in Cactaceae).


lentibulariaceous

From translingual Lentibulariaceae + -ous.

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Lentibulariaceae.


opiliaceous

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Opiliaceae.


azollaceous

The combination of filicalean frond structure, marsileaceous sporophyte morphology, and salviniaceous/azollaceous sporangial characters displayed by Hydropteris again raises the […]

1994, GW Rothwell, RA Stockey, “The role of Hydropteris pinnata gen. et sp. nov. in reconstructing the cladistics of heterosporous ferns”, in American Journal of Botany:

A comparison with other azollaceous and salviniaceous genera, particularly Azolla, is provided, together with a discussion of some evolutionary trends within the family.

1999, A ArchangelskyCJ PhippsTN Tayloret al., “Paleoazolla, a new heterosporous fern from the Upper Cretaceous of Argentina”, in American Journal of […] :

Several extinct azollaceous spores have associated glochidia. The megaspore complexes […] The spores of living and extinct azollaceous ferns are the most elaborate among […]

1999, KM Pryer, “Phylogeny of Marsileaceous Ferns and Relationships of the Fossil Hydropteris pinnata Reconsidered”, in International Journal of Plant Sciences:

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Azollaceae.


compound leaf

(botany) A leaf that has a fully subdivided blade, therefore having leaflets.


simple leaf

(botany) A leaf that has an undivided blade, therefore having no leaflets.


rhoipteleaceous

From translingual Rhoipteleaceae + -ous.

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Rhoipteleaceae.


sonneratiaceous

From translingual Sonneratiaceae + -ous.

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Sonneratiaceae.


pallaviciniaceous

From translingual Pallaviciniaceae + -ous.

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Pallaviciniaceae.


leguminaceous

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Leguminaceae.


chrysobalanaceous

From translingual Chrysobalanaceae + -ous.

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Chrysobalanaceae.


corystospermaceous

From translingual Corystospermaceae + -ous.

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Corystospermaceae.


strelitziaceous

From translingual Strelitziaceae + -ous.

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Strelitziaceae.


convallariaceous

From translingual Convallariaceae + -ous.

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Convallariaceae.


marcgraviaceous

From translingual Marcgraviaceae + -ous.

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Marcgraviaceae.


tecophilaeaceous

From translingual Tecophilaeaceae + -ous.

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Tecophilaeaceae.


centrolepidaceous

From translingual Centrolepidaceae + -ous.

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Centrolepidaceae.


mesembryanthemaceous

From translingual Mesembryanthemaceae + -ous.

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Mesembryanthemaceae.


dilleniaceous

(botany) Belonging to the family Dilleniaceae.


lejeuneaceous

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Lejeuneaceae.


nothofagaceous

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Nothofagaceae.


basellaceous

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Basellaceae.


pertusariaceous

From translingual Pertusariaceae + -ous.

(lichenology, relational) Of or relating to the Pertusariaceae.


plagiochilaceous

From translingual Plagiochilaceae + -ous.

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Plagiochilaceae.


gnetaceous

(botany) Belonging to the family Gnetaceae.


candolleaceous

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Candolleaceae.


peltaspermaceous

From translingual Peltaspermaceae + -ous.

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Peltaspermaceae.


glossopteridaceous

From translingual Glossopteridaceae + -ous.

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Glossopteridaceae.


menyanthaceous

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the family Menyanthaceae.


ginkgoaceous

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Ginkgoaceae.


hookeriaceous

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Hookeriaceae.


hypoxidaceous

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Hypoxidaceae.


linderniaceous

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the family Linderniaceae of flowering plants.


calceolariaceous

From translingual Calceolariaceae + -ous.

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Calceolariaceae.


hostaceous

Hostaceae [Term?] (“synonym of Asparagaceae”) + -ous

suffix

(botany) Resembling a Hosta (Asparagaceae:Agavoideae).


rivulariaceous

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Rivulariaceae.


escalloniaceous

From translingual Escalloniaceae + -ous.

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Escalloniaceae.


clypeosphaeriaceous

From translingual Clypoesphaeriaceae + -ous.

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Clypoesphaeriaceae.


nelumbonaceous

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Nelumbonaceae.


casuarinaceous

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Casuarinaceae.


cunoniaceous

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Cunoniaceae.


molluginaceous

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Molluginaceae.


pyrolaceous

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Pyrolaceae.


parkeriaceous

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Parkeriaceae.


brunelliaceous

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Brunelliaceae.


cercidiphyllaceous

From translingual Cercidiphyllaceae + -ous.

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Cercidiphyllaceae.


potamogetonaceous

(botany) Belonging to the family Potamogetonaceae of pondweeds.


crescentiaceous

From translingual Crescentiaceae + -ous.

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Crescentiaceae.


loasaceous

(botany) Belonging to the family Loasaceae principally of herbaceous plants.


cochlospermaceous

From translingual Cochlospermaceae + -ous.

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Cochlospermaceae.


grimmiaceous

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Grimmiaceae.


byblidaceous

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Byblidaceae.


canellaceous

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Canellaceae.


hypopterygiaceous

From translingual Hypopterygiaceae + -ous.

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Hypopterygiaceae.


burmanniaceous

(botany) Belonging to the family Burmanniaceae.


typhaceous

(botany) Belonging to the family Typhaceae of cattails.


nolinaceous

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Nolinaceae.


gyalectaceous

(lichenology, relational) Of or relating to the Gyalectaceae.


ceratophyllaceous

From translingual Ceratophyllaceae + -ous.

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Ceratophyllaceae.


caytoniaceous

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Caytoniaceae.


bruniaceous

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Bruniaceae.


dryopteridaceous

(botany) Belonging to the family Dryopteridaceae of ferns.


himantandraceous

From translingual Himantandraceae + -ous.

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Himantandraceae.


parmeliaceous

(lichenology) Belonging to the family Parmeliaceae of lichens.


anthocerotaceous

From translingual Anthocerotaceae + -ous.

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Anthocerotaceae.


calamitaceous

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Calamitaceae.


asphodelaceous

(botany) Belonging to the plant family Asphodelaceae.


hippocrateaceous

From translingual Hippocrateaceae + -ous.

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Hippocrateaceae.


timmiaceous

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Timmiaceae.


gomortegaceous

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Gomortegaceae.


cephalotaxaceous

From translingual Cephalotaxaceae + -ous.

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Cephalotaxaceae.


metaxyaceous

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Metaxyaceae.


garryaceous

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Garryaceae.


rafflesiaceous

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Rafflesiaceae.


nartheciaceous

(botany) Belonging to the family Nartheciaceae of lowering plants in order Dioscoreales.


anthericaceous

(botany) Belonging to the family Anthericaceae, now often tribe Antericeae in family Asparagaceae.


thelypteridaceous

(botany) Belonging to the family Thelypteridaceae of ferns.


theophrastaceous

From translingual Theophrastaceae + -ous.

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Theophrastaceae.


tropaeolaceous

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Tropaeolaceae.


tamaricaceous

(botany) Belonging to the family Tamaricaceae of salt cedars.


turneraceous

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Turneraceae.


thismiaceous

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Thismiaceae.


graphidaceous

(lichenology, relational) Of or relating to the Graphidaceae.


lythraceous

(botany) Belonging to the family Lythraceae, which includes loosestrifes, pomegranate, henna, water caltrop, and crape myrtles.


rapateaceous

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Rapateaceae.


eriospermaceous

From translingual Eriospermaceae + -ous.

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Eriospermaceae.


butomaceous

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Butomaceae.


gleicheniaceous

From translingual Gleicheniaceae + -ous.

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Gleicheniaceae.


chordaceous

en-adj

chordaceous (comparative more chordaceous, superlative most chordaceous)

more chordaceous (comparative)
most chordaceous (superlative)


symplocaceous

(botany) Belonging to the family Symplocaceae.


lactoridaceous

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Lactoridaceae.


hydrocharitaceous

From translingual Hydrocharitaceae + -ous.

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Hydrocharitaceae.


alangiaceous

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Alangiaceae.


agavaceous

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Agavaceae.


bryaceous

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Bryaceae.


aloaceous

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Aloaceae.


calyceraceous

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Calyceraceae.


cannabaceous

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Cannabaceae.


alariaceous

(botany) Belonging to the family Alariaceae of brown algae.


asparagaceous

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Asparagaceae.


aspidiaceous

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Aspidiaceae.


cannabinaceous

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Cannabinaceae.


camelliaceous

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Camelliaceae.


begoniaceous

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Begoniaceae.


calophyllaceous

From translingual Calophyllaceae + -ous.

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Calophyllaceae.


cannaceous

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Cannaceae.


cecropiaceous

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Cecropiaceae.


calycanthaceous

From translingual Calycanthaceae + -ous.

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Calycanthaceae.


caryocaraceous

(botany) Belonging to the family Caryocaraceae of trees and shrubs of Central and South America.


codiaceous

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Codiaceae.


capparaceous

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Capparaceae.


caricaceous

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Caricaceae.


chlaenaceous

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Chlaenaceae.


chloranthaceous

(botany) Belonging to the family Chloranthaceae of fragrant trees and shrubs, the sole family in order Chloranthales.


chlorococcaceous

From translingual Chlorococcaceae + -ous.

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Chlorococcaceae.


cleomaceous

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Cleomaceae.


amblystegiaceous

(botany) Belonging to the family Amblystegiaceae.


cabombaceous

(botany) Belonging to the family Cabombaceae of aquatic plants.


characeous

(botany) Belonging to the family Characeae of green algae.


cichoriaceous

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Cichoriaceae.


colchicaceous

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Colchicaceae.


commelinaceous

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Commelinaceae.


convulvulaceous

From translingual Convulvulaceae + -ous.

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Convulvulaceae.


coriariaceous

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Coriariaceae.


celtidaceous

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Celtidaceae.


crypteroniaceous

From translingual Crypteroniaceae + -ous.

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Crypteroniaceae.


corylaceous

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Corylaceae.


connaraceous

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(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Connaraceae.


diapensiaceous

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Diapensiaceae.


degeneriaceous

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Degeneriaceae.


cruciferaceous

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Cruciferaceae.


cytinaceous

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Cytinaceae.


dennstaedtiaceous

(botany) Belonging to the family Dennstaedtiaceae of ferns.


desmidiaceous

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Desmidiaceae.


cymodoceaceous

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Cymodoceaceae.


cordiaceous

(botany) Belonging to the family Cordiaceae in the order Boraginales.


dicksoniaceous

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Dicksoniaceae.


cyatheaceous

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the family Cyatheaceae, of certain plants.


didiereaceous

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Didiereaceae.


ebenaceous

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Ebenaceae.


dioncophyllaceous

From translingual Dioncophyllaceae + -ous.

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Dioncophyllaceae.


dicranaceous

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Dicranaceae.


dryadaceous

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Dryadaceae.


eupteleaceous

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Eupteleaceae.


elaeagnaceous

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Elaeagnaceae.


empetraceous

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Empetraceae.


dipsacaceous

(botany) Belonging to the family Dipsacaceae (now subfamily Dispsacoideae), including the teasels.


ampelidaceous

From translingual Ampelidaceae (“former name of Vitaceae”) + -aceous, from Ancient Greek ἄμπελος (ámpelos, “grapevine”) + -ίδης (-ídēs, “-son, indicating a familial connection”) + -aceae (“-aceous, resembling”).

der

(botany, obsolete) Of or belonging to the Ampelidaceae (now Vitaceae).


epacridaceous

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Epacridaceae.


ecdeiocoleaceous

From translingual Ecdeiocoleaceae + -ous.

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Ecdeiocoleaceae.


eucommiaceous

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Eucommiaceae.


encalyptaceous

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Encalyptaceae.


dipsaceous

(botany) Belonging to the family Dipsaceae, including teasels.


ehretiaceous

(botany) Belonging to the family Ehretiaceae in order Boraginales.


eucryphiaceous

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Eucryphiaceae.


eupomatiaceous

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Eupomatiaceae.


elaeocarpaceous

From Elaeocarpaceae + -ous, equivalent to Elaeocarpus + -aceous.

(botany) Belonging to the Elaeocarpaceae.


grubbiaceous

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Grubbiaceae.


heliconiaceous

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Heliconiaceae.


greyiaceous

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Greyiaceae.


grossulariaceous

From translingual Grossulariaceae + -ous.

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Grossulariaceae.


gyrostemonaceous

From translingual Gyrostemonaceae + -ous.

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Gyrostemonaceae.


hernandiaceous

(botany) Belonging to the Hernandiaceae.


haloragidaceous

From translingual Haloragidaceae + -ous.

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Haloragidaceae.


grossulaceous

(botany) Belonging to the family Grossulaceae (now family Grossulariaceae) of currants and gooseberries.


hydrangeaceous

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Hydrangeaceae.


hypericaceous

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Hypericaceae.


eremolepidaceous

From translingual Eremolepidaceae + -ous.

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Eremolepidaceae.


hypnaceous

(botany) Belonging to the family Hypnaceae of mosses.


laminariaceous

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Laminariaceae.


laurinaceous

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Laurinaceae.


lophosoriaceous

From translingual Lophosoriaceae + -ous.

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Lophosoriaceae.


anthocerotalean

(botany) Of or relating to the Anthocerotales.


dipteridaceous

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Dipteridaceae.


malaceous

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Malaceae.


myoporaceous

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Myoporaceae.


leucobryaceous

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Leucobryaceae.


linaceous

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Linaceae.


lygodiaceous

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Lygodiaceae.


matoniaceous

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Matoniaceae.


lemnaceous

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Lemnaceae.


lennoaceous

(botany) Belonging to the family Lennoaceae in Boraginales.


moringaceous

(botany) Belonging to the family Moringaceae of moringa trees.


myricaceous

(botany) Belonging to the family Myricaceae of bog myrtles and close relatives.


limeaceous

(botany) Belonging to the family Limeaceae and its single genus Limeum.


marattiaceous

(botany) Belonging to the form family Marattiaceae, of extinct fossil ferns.


naiadaceous

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Naiadaceae.


najadaceous

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Najadaceae.


notothylaceous

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Notothylaceae.


monotropaceous

(botany) Belonging to the family Monotropaceae, now usually subfamily Monotropoideae in family Ericaceae, of mostly non-photosynthetic plants.


pedaliaceous

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Pedaliaceae.


paeoniaceous

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Paeoniaceae.


nepenthaceous

(botany) Belonging to the family Nepenthaceae of pitcher plants.


myristaceous

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Myristaceae.


pinaceous

(botany) Belonging to the family Pinaceae of conifers.


phaseolaceous

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Phaseolaceae.


philydraceous

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Philydraceae.


phormiaceous

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Phormiaceae.


myristicaceous

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Myristicaceae.


platanaceous

(botany) Belonging to the family Platanaceae of plane trees.


podostemonaceous

From translingual Podostemonaceae + -ous.

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Podostemonaceae.


podostemaceous

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Podostemaceae.


pottiaceous

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Pottiaceae.


sciadopityaceous

From translingual Sciadopityaceae + -ous.

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Sciadopityaceae.


phytolaccaceous

(botany) Belonging to the Phytolaccaceae.


podophyllaceous

From translingual Podophyllaceae + -ous.

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Podophyllaceae.


portulaceous

(botany) Belonging to the family Portulaceae (preferably Portulacaceae) of purslanes.


pleuromeiaceous

From translingual Pleuromeiaceae + -ous.

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Pleuromeiaceae.


pteridaceous

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Pteridaceae.


ruscaceous

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Ruscaceae.


prunaceous

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Prunaceae.


schistochilaceous

From translingual Schistochilaceae + -ous.

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Schistochilaceae.


podocarpaceous

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Podocarpaceae.


sematophyllaceous

From translingual Sematophyllaceae + -ous.

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Sematophyllaceae.


psilotaceous

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Psilotaceae.


selaginellaceous

From translingual Selaginellaceae + -ous.

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Selaginellaceae.


polypodiaceous

(botany) Belonging to the family Polypodiaceae of ferns.


saururaceous

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Saururaceae.


sabiaceous

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Sabiaceae.


schisandraceous

(botany) Belonging to the family Schisandraceae.


samydaceous

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Samydaceae.


sarcolaenaceous

From translingual Sarcolaenaceae + -ous.

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Sarcolaenaceae.


seligeriaceous

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Seligeriaceae.


scitaminaceous

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Scitaminaceae.


punicaceous

From translingual Punicaceae + -ous; the base meaning "Carthaginian" is from Latin punicus.

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Punicaceae.


sphagnaceous

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Sphagnaceae.


ricciaceous

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Ricciaceae.


sparganiaceous

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Sparganiaceae.


corallinaceous

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Corallinaceae.


splachnaceous

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Splachnaceae.


trigoniaceous

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Trigoniaceae.


spongiophytaceous

From translingual Spongiophytaceae + -ous.

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Spongiophytaceae.


stemonaceous

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Stemonaceae.


staphyleaceous

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Staphyleaceae.


sphenophyllaceous

From translingual Sphenophyllaceae + -ous.

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Sphenophyllaceae.


stereocaulaceous

From translingual Stereocaulaceae + -ous.

(lichenology, relational) Of or relating to the Stereocaulaceae.


trilliaceous

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Trilliaceae.


trapaceous

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Trapaceae.


sophoraceous

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Sophoraceae.


trimeniaceous

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Trimeniaceae.


triuridaceous

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Triuridaceae.


ternstroemiaceous

From translingual Ternstroemiaceae + -ous.

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Ternstroemiaceae.


lauralean

(botany) Of or relating to the Laurales, an order of flowering plants.


haloragaceous

From translingual Haloragaceae + -ous, from New Latin Haloragis + -aceae, formed irregularly from Ancient Greek ἅλς (háls, “salt”) + ῥάξ (rháx, “berry”) (a Pre-Greek / Mediterranean loan).

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Haloragaceae.


elatinaceous

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Elatinaceae.


ephedraceous

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Ephedraceae.


martyniaceous

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Martyniaceae.


resedaceous

(botany) Belonging to the family Resedaceae of temperate and subtropical plants.


eriocaulaceous

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Eriocaulaceae.


melanthiaceous

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Melanthiaceae.


perenniation

Rees et al. (1999) found that in O. illyricum bolting is dependent on rosettes reaching a critical size, so that stresses such as rosette herbivory may reduce plant size and thus promote perenniation of rosettes.

2000, Neal R. Spencer, Proceedings of the X International Symposium on Biological Control:

Perenniation of phytoplankton in rivers arises from surviving periphytic and benthic populations, often of backwater areas (Reynolds and Descy, 1996).

2001, Robert G. Wetzel, Limnology: Lake and River Ecosystems, →ISBN, page 371:

It is always perennial, has a woody lignotuber that aids perenniation and regrowth after frost, fire or flood, it can produce large yields of very nutritious seed, and it thrives on clay soils.

2016, John R Lazier, Nazeer Ahmad, Tropical Forage Legumes, →ISBN:

(botany) The process or property of living for more than one year.


Vavilovian

It is sufficient to emphasise how strongly the Vavilovian concept, and geographical pattern, of centres of origin constrained research on the beginnings of agriculture in the second half of the twentieth century.

2006, Robert Layton, Stephen Shennan, Peter G. Stone, A Future for Archaeology: The Past in the Present:

(botany, genetics) Of, or related to the scientific discoveries of the Russian and Soviet botanist and geneticist Nikolai Vavilov.


roseaceous

(botany, relational) Belonging or relating to the Roseaceae.


thymelaceous

(botany, relational) Belonging or relating to the Thymelaceae.


caesalpinaceous

From translingual Caesalpinaceae + -ous.

(botany, relational) Belonging or relating to the Caesalpinaceae.


restiaceous

The little family of Restiaceous plants is represented in our flora by a small aquatic tufted plant, found in the Hebrides and in Ireland, and called the Jointed Eriocaulon.

1867, Thomas Moore, British Wild Flower:

(botany, obsolete) Belonging or relating to the Restiaceae (now Restionaceae), a family of rush-like plants.


staminody

en-noun

staminody (countable and uncountable, plural staminodies)

(botany, uncountable) A condition of flowers in which sepals, pistils, etc. are metamorphosed into stamens.

(botany, countable) Synonym of staminode


monoclinism

(botany) The property of being monoclinous.


miltonia

(botany) Any orchid of the genus Miltonia.


nemesia

(botany) Any plant of the genus Nemesia in the family Scrophulariaceae.


pistillode

(botany) A sterile pistil in a male flower.


cupressophyte

(botany) Any member of the Cupressophyta.


mictoplasm

In healthy sieve elements, gold particles were mainly found in the mictoplasm and in association with the membrane, whereas in the cell lumen they were significantly less abundant.

2015 August 19, Stefanie V. Buxa et al., “Phytoplasma infection in tomato is associated with re-organization of plasma membrane, ER stacks, and actin filaments in sieve elements”, in Frontiers in Plant Science, volume 6, →DOI:

(botany) Any phloem containing sieve cells.


slime flux

(phytopathology) An infection occurring in some tree species that causes a foul smelling fluid to ooze from infected wood and bark.


wetwood

Even though considerable data may show that a species in class 1 is not susceptible to wetwood formation, it may be important to continue looking for exceptions.

1980, J. C. Ward, Wetwood in trees: a timber resource problem, page 8:

(phytopathology) Wood with a darkened or wet appearance resulting from abnormally high water content or a bacterial infection.


gynandrium

(botany) A combined male and female stamen structure.


gynostegium

(botany) An adnation of the stamens with the style and stigma, typically found in members of the family Apocynaceae.


archesporium

(botany) Any of the cells of the sporangium that give rise to spores.


heteranthery

(botany) The property of some flowering plants to have different types of stamen within the same flower. Research suggests the different stamens perform different functions in the plant's pollination strategy.


pneumatode

From Ancient Greek πνεῦμα (pneûma) (breath) and ὁδός (hodós) (pathway)

(botany, histology) A group of cells with spiral secondary wall thickenings, present in a velamen; acts as an airway for gas exchange for respiration or photosynthesis

The roots of palms are characterised by pneumatodes on both underground and aerial roots. These have been supposed to ventilate the underground roots, but direct physiological evidence for this is lacking.

2015, R. H. V. Corley, P. B. H. Tinker, The Oil Palm, Wiley, →ISBN, page 144:

(botany, histology) A group of cells presumed to be specialised as an airway for ventilation of particular tissues.


subdioecious

(botany, of a group of plants) Having most, but not all, individuals dioecious


quadrinate

(botany) Having four divisions or leaflets.


staminoid

en-adj

staminoid (comparative more staminoid, superlative most staminoid)

more staminoid (comparative)
most staminoid (superlative)


carpelloid

carpelloid (comparative more carpelloid, superlative most carpelloid)

more carpelloid (comparative)
most carpelloid (superlative)


carpeloid

carpeloid (comparative more carpeloid, superlative most carpeloid)

more carpeloid (comparative)
most carpeloid (superlative)


inerm

The cirrus is inerm and slender, measuring 0.1 mm. in length and 0.02 mm. in diameter.

1926, South Africa. Dept. of Agriculture. Division of Veterinary Research, Report (volumes 11-12, page 79)

(botany) Without spines or thorns; inermous.


roundleaf

(botany, in the names of plants) Having round leaves.


quercoid

quercoid (comparative more quercoid, superlative most quercoid)

more quercoid (comparative)
most quercoid (superlative)

(botany) Resembling or characteristic of an oak.


systylious

(botany) In which the operculum remains attached to the columella after dehiscence.


mimoseous

mimoseous (comparative more mimoseous, superlative most mimoseous)

more mimoseous (comparative)
most mimoseous (superlative)

(botany, archaic) Resembling the mimosa plant.


-ptile

Representing the Ancient Greek πτῐ́λον (ptĭ́lon, “feather”, “down”; “leaf”); in the botanical sense denoting leaves, probably after the French -ptile. Compare ptilo-.

der

coleoptile, endoptile, exoptile

(botany, forming adjectives and nouns) type of leaf


teretiform

en-adj

teretiform (comparative more teretiform, superlative most teretiform)

more teretiform (comparative)
most teretiform (superlative)

Isidia numerous and dense to rather sparse, superficial (also marginal), concolorous with thallus or darker, squamiform (entire or a little incised) or some more teretiform, when young ± globular (often they grow out still remaining on thallus, forming small accessory lobules as in C. crispum, see Degelius 1954 pp. 38, 284).

1972, Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis: Symbolae botanicae Upsalienses:

The phyllocladia are granulose, squamulose, yerrucose, Subfoliose or cylindrical teretiform in the different species, and are corticated, with photobiont stratum below cortex (Fig. 3.6). The teretiform phyllocladia have almost the same morphology as that of a branch of pseudopodetium.

2000, Dharani Dhar Awasthi, A Hand Book Of Lichens, page 28:


cambiform

cambiform (comparative more cambiform, superlative most cambiform)

more cambiform (comparative)
most cambiform (superlative)

(botany) Resembling the cells of the cambium.


calathea

Even the plants look expensive. A humidifier hisses beneath her calatheas.

2023, R. F. Kuang, Yellowface, The Borough Press, page 11:

(botany) Any of the genus Calathea of plants belonging to the family Marantaceae.


bicolpate

(botany, palynology, of a pollen) Having two grooves, or colpi, on each grain.


trollius

(botany) Any of the genus Trollius of mostly herbaceous perennial plants in the family Ranunculaceae.


syncarpy

(botany) The quality of being syncarpous


monocarpellate

Early Aptian Torres Vedras mesofossil flora includes several small monocarpellate, usually uniovulate, fruiting units.

2011, Else Marie Friis, Early Flowers and Angiosperm Evolution, page 409:


halogeton

(botany) Any plant of the genus Halogeton in the family Amaranthaceae.


oxytrope

From translingual Oxytropis, from Ancient Greek ὀξύς (oxús, “sharp, pointy”) + τρόπις (trópis, “keel”).


agamospermous

en-adj

agamospermous (comparative more agamospermous, superlative most agamospermous)

more agamospermous (comparative)
most agamospermous (superlative)


brunfelsia

(botany) Any of the plants of the genus Brunfelsia.


seminule

Seminules appear to differ only from seeds by their minuteness. […] The seminules of cryptogamous plants are produced in ovaries to which stigmas are attached; but those of agamous plants are contained in a sort of ovary, to which no stigma being attached, they are disginguished by the peculiar name of conceptacles, either loose, or, as in some plants, in small cases called elytræ, the conceptacle itself then performing the office of an involucrum.

1819, The London Medical Repository, volume 11, page 289:

Germination of its seminule, as observed by Hedwig, very much magnified; showing the seminule throwing out a radicle, and a succulent thread, considered as a cotyledon, which appears to be jointed, and having nipples which elongate into branches.

1821, A Natural Arrangement of British Plants, page 270:

It was generally believed, before the experiments made by M. Kuhn, but without any foundation, and upon simple conjecture, that the seminules or spores of the ustilagoes and uredoes of the cereals penetrate by the radicles of the plant in order to arrive, creeping by degrees, to the leaves and seeds of those vegetables.

(botany, obsolete) A very small seed or spore.


citrus black spot

(phytopathology) A disease of citrus plants caused by the Guignardia citricarpa fungus.


phaneranthous

phaneranthous (comparative more phaneranthous, superlative most phaneranthous)

more phaneranthous (comparative)
most phaneranthous (superlative)

(botany) showy (having conspicuous colourful flowers that advertise their presence to pollinators)


leaf bud

(botany) A bud which develops into a leaf or a leafy branch.


effigurate

Borrowed from New Latin effiguratus; compare figurate (figuratus).

Thallus thin, whitish to somewhat greyish, continuous, occasionally minutely rimulose, margin somewhat darkened and determinate but not clearly effigurate;

1948, A. Grenfell Price, The winning of Australian Antarctica. Mawson's B.A.N.Z.A.R.E. voyages: 1929-31: based on the Mawson papers, page 105:

Thallus about 1 cm. in diameter, light gray irregular areoles 0:30,4 mm. in diameter on a black hypothallus, giving a deciussate appearance, marginal areoles slightly radially elongate and very narrowly black margined but not clearly effigurate;

1965, Nova Hedwigia, volumes 15-16, page 326:

(botany, lichenology) Having a definite (lobed) shape; not effuse.


epipelon

The seasonal succession of algal species in the epipelon of shallow, mesotrophic pond Bezednik (Czech Republic) with special attention to diatoms (particularly Sellaphora) is described.

2009, Jana Špačková1, “Seasonal succession of epipelic algae: a case study on a mesotrophic pond in a temperate climate.”, in Fottea, volume 9, number 1, page 121:

(botany) The cyanobacteria and eukaryotic algae that live on or in association with fine-grained substrata or sand.


pinnal

(anatomy, botany, zoology) Relating to a pinna


carissa

(botany) Any plant of the genus Carissa.


sessilely

en-adv

sessilely (comparative more sessilely, superlative most sessilely)

more sessilely (comparative)
most sessilely (superlative)

The species, so far as the shape of the lorica is concerned, resembles the sessilely attached fresh-water Salpingaeca fusiformis, S. K., but is excluded from the section to which Kent has relegated the latter, by the possession of the pedicle.

1886, Journal of the Trenton Natural History Society, volume 1, page 138:


schizocarpic

(botany) Of or relating to a schizocarp.


phyllidium

The lateral lobes of each opposite phyllidium being thus brought together and forming an apparent whole, botanists supposed they had before them two stigmata in this order opposed to the placentae, which was contrary to all analogy.

1848, Sir William Jackson Hooker, London Journal of Botany - Volume 7, page 14:

The forward margin of each dorsolateral phyllidium overlaps the rear margin of the adjacent phyllidium. This arrangement tends to channel drainage water toward the ventral surface of the gametophyte, where some of it is retained in tiny pockets that are bounded on the lower side by the ventral lobes of the dorsolateral phyllidia.

1982, Arthur Cronquist, Basic Botany, page 278:

Interference-contrast micrograph through the abaxial surface of a proximal cell of a phyllidium of Tortula ruralis ten minutes after rehydration from the desiccated state.

1984, Advances in Bryology, →ISBN, page 122:


tetragenous

The leaves are arranged in four longitudinal rows along the stem. There are two rows of smaller leaves attached to the upper side of stem and two rows of larger leaves attached laterally. The strobili are tetragenous (four-angled) […]

2006, Anil Kumar, Botany for Degree Pteridophyta, page 184:

Mussels that employ all four demibranchs for brooding are referred to as tetragenous.

2010, James H. Thorp, Alan P. Covich, Ecology and Classification of North American Freshwater Invertebrates:

Eggs are incubated in all four gills (tetragenous). In the other groups the gill structure is stabilized by increasing the number of connectives and by organizing them into continuous walls (Kat 1984).

2012, G. Bauer, K. Wächtler, Ecology and Evolution of the Freshwater Mussels Unionoida, page 234:

(botany, zoology) Involving groups of four; arranged in fours.


polyembryo

But sour and swee oranges have a number of characters in common -- small-panicled inflorescences, tight peel, whitish polyembryo, etc.

1932, Taihoku Teikoku Daigaku. Ri-nogakubu, Memoirs, page 68:

A complicating feature of conifers, when estimating the number of lethals, is that polyembryos are common during seed development.

1977, M. Thompson Conkle, Knobcone Pine Self Compatibility and Isozyme Inheritance, page 61:

This method is effective because unlike other fructiferous plants, citrus possesses the polyembryo property, thus obtaining from a single seed more than one plant with identical properties to the parent plant.

2013, Giovanni Dugo, Ivana Bonaccorsi, Citrus bergamia: Bergamot and its Derivatives, →ISBN, page 26:

(botany) A single seed that contains multiple embryos.


forestem

Nearby, Marikosan picked the rising and curling forestems for later cooking.

2016, George C. Zidbeck, Observations and Reflections of a Country Squire:

(botany) The forward or projected-most part of a stem


bursicle

These are joined by slender stalks to sticky discs, the viscidia, which are protected from contact with the air by a membranous pouch called the bursicle. At a touch from a visiting bee the bursicle ruptures and the insect's head, probing towards the nectar, is bound to touch one or both viscidia which immediately stick to it and become detached from the flower.

1977, Michael Willmer Forbes Tweedie, Insect Life, page 106:

(botany) A sheath that covers the viscidium in some plants.


ex vitro

(botany) In an environment outside the artificial tissue culture, usually in soil or potting mixture.


hypogenous

(botany) Produced or growing on the undersurface.


crownshaft

(botany) A leafbase which forms on some palms above the trunk and below the crown and above the trunk.


canarium

(botany) Any of the genus Canarium of about 100 species of tropical and subtropical evergreen trees in the family Burseraceae.