GLOSSARY OF BOTANICAL 

 TERMS USED 



ACCRESCENT : increasing in size with age. 



ACCUMBENT : lying against. 



ACHENE : a small, hard, dry, indehiscent, 1 -seeded fruit; in a strict 



sense of a single free carpel, but also used when more. 

 ACTINOMORPHIC : symmetrical in several planes. 

 ACUMINATE : tapering to an acute end. 

 -ADELPHOTJS : of stamens united into one or more bundles. 

 ADNATE : attached by the whole length. 



ADVENTITIOUS : arising irregularly and not in the normal order. 

 AESTIVATION : the manner in which the parts of a flower are arranged 



and folded before expansion. 

 ALBUMEN : the nutritive material stored within the seed outside the 



embryo. 



ALGIFORM : resembling an alga. 

 ALVEOLA : a surface cavity. 

 AMPHITROPOUS : said of an ovule curved to bring its two ends near 



together. 



AMPLEXICAUL : stem-clasping, as the bases of some leaves or petioles. 

 ANASTOMOSING : when veins meet and join to form a net. 

 ANATROPOUS : said of an ovule inverted on its funicle so that the 



opening is close to the hilum and the chalaza at the other end. 

 ANDROEICUM : the entire male parts of a flower. 

 ANDROGYNOUS : male and female flowers in the same inflorescence. 

 ANISOMEROUS : when the different series of a flower are unequal in 



number. 



ANNULAR : in the form of a ring. 



ANTHER : that part of the stamen which contains the pollen. 

 ANTHOCARP : a false-fruit formed by the fusion of the whole or a part 



of the flower with the fruit itself. 

 ANTICOUS : the forepart, that most remote or turned away from the 



axis. 



APICULA : a short, sharp, but not rigid point. 

 APOCARPUS : when the carpels are free and separate. 



