GLOSSARY OF TECHNICAL TEEMS 309 



Terminal. Borne at or near the extremity, or summit. 



Ternate. In threes. 



Testa. The outer seed coat. 



Tomentose. Densely clothed with matted wool. 



Torus. The receptacle of a flower. 



Tree. A woody plant usually more than five m. tall with a distinct trunk 



or main axis. 

 Tri-. Prefix, meaning three. 

 Trificl Three cleft. 

 Trifoliate. Of three leaflets. 

 Truncate. Cut off at the end or top. 

 Tubercle. A small tuber or excrescence. 

 Tuberculate. With knobby excrescences. 

 Tubular. Hollow, cylindrical or elongated in form. 

 Turbinate. Obconical or inverted top-shaped. 



Valve. One of the parts of a dehiscent pod. 



Valvate. (In activation) The arrangement of sepals or petals in the bud 



in which the edges touch but do not overlap. 

 Ventral. The lower or inner side of an organ. 



Versatile. Attached by one point, enabling it to swing in several directions. 

 Villose. With long, shaggy soft hairs. 

 Viscid. Sticky. 

 Volute. Rolled up in any manner. 



Wavy. The surface or margin alternatingly convex and concave. 

 Whorled. The arrangement of branches or leaves in circles around the 

 stem or axis. 



