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BOTANICAL GLOSSARY
Glossary of commonly used botanical terms and their definitions. Use the search bar below to look up a botanical term.
15 Random Botanical Terms
Lanceolate - Having the shape of a spear-head or lance.
Zygote - A reproductive cell formed by the fusion of two gametes.
Axil - The upper angle between two structures or organs, as where a leaf or branch joins the stem.
Bilateral symmetry - Usually referencing flower structure, descripes a plant part or parts that may be divided along a single plane forming two mirror-image halves; zygomorphic, irregular flower.
FAC - Faculative - Hydrophyte. Occurs in wetlands and non-wetlands.
Tepals - Collective term for sepals and petals when sepals are petal-like, as in Cooperia pedunculata (rain lily).
Biennial - A plant that takes two years to complete the flowering cycle. Typically it grows vegetatively the first year and flowers and fruits during the second year before dying.
Caudate - Tapering gradually into a long taillike tip
Node - The place on a stem where leaves or branches normally originate; a swollen or knoblike structure.
Endangered - An animal or plant species in danger of extinction throughout all or a significant portion of its range.
Whorled - Three or more leaves or flowers arranged in a circle around a stem.
Trifoliate - Having three leaflets.
Asymmetric - Lacking symmetry, e.g., the two halves of a leaf blade not alike.
Complete flower - A flower with sepals, petals, stamens, and pistil present.
Stipules - Leaflike structures that grow where the leaf is attached to the stem.