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plant part |
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any part of a plant or fungus |
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plant structure |
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any part of a plant or fungus |
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plant organ |
Noun
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a functional and structural unit of a plant or fungus |
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plant process |
Noun
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a natural projection or outgrowth from a plant body or organ |
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phylloclad |
Noun
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a flattened stem resembling and functioning as a leaf |
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phylloclade |
Noun
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a flattened stem resembling and functioning as a leaf |
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prickle |
Noun
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a small sharp-pointed tip resembling a spike on a stem or leaf |
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prickle |
Verb
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make a small hole into, as with a needle or a thorn |
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prickle |
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cause a stinging or tingling sensation |
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prickle |
Verb
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cause a prickling sensation |
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petiole |
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the slender stem that supports the blade of a leaf |
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phyllode |
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an expanded petiole taking on the function of a leaf blade |
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pedicel |
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a small stalk bearing a single flower of an inflorescence |
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pedicle |
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a small stalk bearing a single flower of an inflorescence |
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panicle |
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compound raceme or branched cluster of flowers |
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parasitic plant |
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plant living on another plant and obtaining organic nutriment from it |
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paraphysis |
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a sterile simple or branched filament or hair borne among sporangia |
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pyrene |
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the small hard nutlet of a drupe or drupelet |
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pyrene |
Noun
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a pale yellow crystalline hydrocarbon C16H10 extracted from coal tar |
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partial veil |
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membrane of the young sporophore of various mushrooms extending from the margin of the cap to the stem and is ruptured by growth |
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pome |
Noun
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a fleshy fruit (apple or pear or related fruits) having seed chambers and an outer fleshy part |
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plant tissue |
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the tissue of a plant |
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pyxidium |
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fruit of such plants as the plantain |
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pea pod |
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husk of a pea |
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peasecod |
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husk of a pea |
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phloem |
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(botany) tissue that conducts synthesized food substances (e.g., from leaves) to parts where needed |
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pneumatophore |
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an air-filled root (submerged or exposed) that can function as a respiratory organ of a marsh or swamp plant |
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pseudophloem |
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false phloem |
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parallel-veined leaf |
Noun
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a leaf whose veins run in parallel from the stem |
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parted leaf |
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a leaf having margins incised almost to the base so as to create distinct divisions or lobes |
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prickly-edged leaf |
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a leaf having prickly margins |
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pinnule |
Noun
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division of a usually pinnately divided leaf |
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palmate leaf |
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a leaf resembling an open hand |
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pinnate leaf |
Noun
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a leaf resembling a feather |
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polypody |
Noun
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any of numerous ferns of the genus Polypodium |
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pepper family |
Noun
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tropical woody vines and herbaceous plants having aromatic herbage and minute flowers in spikelets |
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pandurate leaf |
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a fiddle-shaped leaf |
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panduriform leaf |
Noun
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a fiddle-shaped leaf |
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peltate leaf |
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a shield-shaped leaf |
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pepper vine |
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any of various shrubby vines of the genus Piper |
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perfoliate leaf |
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a leaf with the base united around--and apparently pierced by--the stem |
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pseudocarp |
Noun
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fruit containing much fleshy tissue besides that of the ripened ovary |
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pedate leaf |
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a leaf having the radiating lobes each deeply cleft or divided |
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peperomia |
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any of various plants of the genus Peperomia |
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pasture brake |
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large coarse fern often several feet high |
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prickly shield fern |
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North American fern whose more or less evergreen leathery fronds are covered with pale brown chafflike scales |
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potato fern |
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small epiphytic fern of South America with tuberous swellings along rhizomes |
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potato fern |
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large Australasian evergreen fern with an edible rhizome sometimes used as a vegetable by indigenous people |
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purple rock brake |
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very short shallowly creeping North American fern usually growing on cliffs or walls and having dark glossy leaf axes |
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princess pine |
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a variety of club moss |