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pinon pine |
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a small two-needled or three-needled pinon of Mexico and southern Texas |
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phanerogam |
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plant that reproduces by means of seeds not spores |
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pitch pine |
Noun
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large three-needled pine of the eastern United States and southeastern Canada |
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pitch pine |
Noun
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large three-needled pine of southeastern United States having very long needles and gnarled twisted limbs |
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pahautea |
Noun
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evergreen tree of New Zealand resembling the kawaka |
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pencil cedar tree |
Noun
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any of several junipers with wood suitable for making pencils |
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pygmy cypress |
Noun
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rare small cypress native to northern California |
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pencil cedar |
Noun
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wood of a pencil cedar tree |
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pencil cedar |
Noun
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any of several junipers with wood suitable for making pencils |
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prickly pine |
Noun
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a small two-needled upland pine of the eastern United States (Appalachians) having dark brown flaking bark and thorn-tipped cone scales |
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plum-yew family |
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a family of Cephalotaxaceae |
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plum-yew |
Noun
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any of several evergreen trees and shrubs of eastern Asia resembling yew and having large seeds enclosed in a fleshy envelope |
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pond bald cypress |
Noun
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common cypress of southeastern United States having trunk expanded at base |
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pond cypress |
Noun
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smaller than and often included in the closely related Taxodium distichum |
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parasite yew |
Noun
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rare and endangered monoecious parasitic conifer of New Caledonia |
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podocarpus family |
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gymnosperms with simple persistent needlelike or scalelike leaves |
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podocarp |
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any evergreen in the southern hemisphere of the genus Podocarpus having a pulpy fruit with one hard seed |
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pollen |
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the fine spores that contain male gametes and that are borne by an anther in a flowering plant |
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pollinium |
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a coherent mass of pollen grains (as in orchids) |
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pistil |
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the female ovule-bearing part of a flower composed of ovary and style and stigma |
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pistillode |
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a sterile vestigial pistil remaining in a staminate flower |
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peach pit |
Noun
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the stone seed of a peach |
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petiolule |
Noun
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the stalk of a leaflet |
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petal |
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part of the perianth that is usually brightly colored |
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perianth |
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collective term for the outer parts of a flower consisting of the calyx and corolla and enclosing the stamens and pistils |
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pollen tube |
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(botany) a slender tubular outgrowth from a pollen grain when deposited on the stigma for a flower |
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perigone |
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collective term for the outer parts of a flower consisting of the calyx and corolla and enclosing the stamens and pistils |
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placentation |
Noun
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arrangement of the ovules in the placenta and of the placentas in the ovary |
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placentation |
Noun
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the formation of the placenta in the uterus |
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perigonium |
Noun
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collective term for the outer parts of a flower consisting of the calyx and corolla and enclosing the stamens and pistils |
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pappus |
Noun
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calyx composed of scales or bristles or featherlike hairs in plants of the Compositae such as thistles and dandelions |
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parietal placentation |
Noun
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where ovules develop on the wall or slight outgrowths of the wall forming broken partitions within a compound ovary |
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plum-fruited yew |
Noun
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South American evergreen tree or shrub |
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prickly custard apple |
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small tropical American tree bearing large succulent slightly acid fruit |
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pinecone |
Noun
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the seed-producing cone of a pine tree |
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pericarp |
Noun
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the ripened and variously modified walls of a plant ovary |
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pond-apple tree |
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small evergreen tree of tropical America with edible fruit |
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papaw tree |
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small tree native to the eastern United States having oblong leaves and fleshy fruit |
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perisperm |
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the nutritive tissue outside the sac containing the embryo in some seeds |
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peony |
Noun
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any of numerous plants widely cultivated for their showy single or double red or pink or white flowers |
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paeony |
Noun
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any of numerous plants widely cultivated for their showy single or double red or pink or white flowers |
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papooseroot |
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tall herb of eastern North America and Asia having blue berrylike fruit and a thick knotty rootstock formerly used medicinally |
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papoose root |
Noun
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tall herb of eastern North America and Asia having blue berrylike fruit and a thick knotty rootstock formerly used medicinally |
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pepperwood |
Noun
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Pacific coast tree having aromatic foliage and small umbellate flowers followed by olivelike fruit |
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pond lily |
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a water lily having large leaves and showy fragrant flowers that float on the water |
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purple anise |
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small shrubby tree with purple flowers |
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pasqueflower |
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any plant of the genus Pulsatilla |
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pasque flower |
Noun
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any plant of the genus Pulsatilla |
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prairie anemone |
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short hairy perennial with early spring blue-violet or lilac flowers |
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pheasant's-eye |
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Eurasian herb cultivated for its deep red flowers with dark centers |