GLOSSARY 



GLOSSARY 



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LINEAR. Long and narrow, with parallel margins. 

 LOBE. Any segment of an organ, especially if rounded. 

 LOBED. Divided into or bearing lobes. 



MALE. Sterile ; staminate. 



MAMMIFORM. Said of fleshy nipple-like protuberances. 



MEDIAN. Said of stamens in the middle of the calyx- 

 tube. 



MIDRIB. The central or main rib of a leaf. 



MONCECIOUS. With stamens and pistils in separate 

 flowers on the same plant. 



MUCRO. A short and small abrupt tip. 



MUCRONATE. Tipped with a mucro. 



NECTARIFEROUS. Producing nectar. 



NECTARY. Any place or organ where nectar is se- 

 creted. 



NERVE. An unbranched vein or slender rib. 



NODE. The place upon a stem which normally bears 

 a leaf or whorl of leaves. 



NODOSE. Knotty or knobby. 



NODULOSE. Provided with little knots or knobs. 



NUT. A hard indehiscent 1-celled and 1-seeded fruit, 

 though usually resulting from a compound ovary. 



NUTLET. A diminutive nut. 



OBCOMPRESSED. Compressed dorso-ventrally instead 



of laterally. 



OBCONICALLY. Inversely conical, having the attach- 

 ment at the apex. 



OBCORDATE. Inverted heart-shaped. 

 OBLANCEOLATE. Lanceolate with the broadest part 



toward the apex. 



OBLIQUE. Unequal sided or slanting. 

 OBLONG. Longer than broad and with nearly parallel 



sides. 



OBOVATE. Inverted ovate. 



OBOVOID. Having the form of an inverted egg. 

 OBSOLETE. Not evident ; rudimentary. 

 OBTUSE. Blunt or rounded at the end. 

 OPAQUE. Dull ; neither shining nor translucent. 

 ORBICULAR. Circular. 

 ORGAN. A part of a living body directly associated 



with the vital functioning. 

 OVAL. Broadly elliptical. 

 OVARY. The part of the pistil that contains the 



ovules. 

 OVATE. Egg-shaped ; having an outline like that 



of an egg, with the broader end downward. 

 OVOID. A solid with an oval outline. 

 OVULE. The body which after fertilization becomes 



the seed. 



PALMATE (leaf). Radiately lobed or divided. 



PALMATELY. In a palmate manner. 



PANICLE. A loose irregularly compound inflorescence 

 with pedicellate flowers. 



PANICLED, PANICULATE. Borne in a panicle; re- 

 sembling a panicle. 



PAPILLOSE. Bearing minute nipple-shaped projections. 



PARTED. Cleft nearly but not quite to the base. 



PEDICEL. The support of a single flower. 



PEDICELLATE. Borne on a pedicel. 



PEDUNCLE. A primary flower-stalk, supporting either 

 a cluster or a solitary flower. 



PEDUNCULATE. Borne upon a peduncle. 



PELLUCID. Clear, transparent. 



PELTATE. Shield-shaped and attached to the support 

 by the lower surface. 



PENDULOUS. More or less hanging. 



PERENNIAL. Lasting year after year. 



PERFECT (flower). Having both pistil and stamens. 



PERFOLIATE (leaf). Having the stem apparently pass- 

 ing through it. 



PERIANTH. The floral envelope, consisting of the 

 calyx and corolla (when present), whatever their 

 form. 



PERICARP. The matured ovary. 



PERIGYNOUS. Adnate to the perianth, and therefore 

 around the ovary and not at its base. 



PERIPHERAL. On or near the margin. 



PERSISTENT. Long-continuous, as a calyx upon the 

 fruit, leaves through winter, etc. 



PETAL. A division of the corolla. 



PETALOID. Colored and resembling a petal. 



PETIOLATE. Having a petiole. 



PETIOLE. The footstalk of a leaf. 



PIGMENT. The coloring matter in the skin of a fruit. 



PILOSE. Hairy, especially with soft hairs. 



PINNATE (leaf). Compound, with the leaflets arranged 

 on each side of a common petiole. 



PINNATIFID. Pinnately cleft. 



PINNULE. A secondary pinna ; one of the pinnately 

 disposed divisions of a pinna. 



PISTIL. The seed-bearing organ of the flower, consist- 

 ing of the ovary, stigma, and style when present. 



PISTILLATE. Provided with pistils, and, in its more 

 proper sense, without stamens. 



PITTED. Marked with small depressions or pits. 



PLICATE. Folded into plaits, usually lengthwise. 



PLUMULE. The bud or growing point of the embryo. 



POLLEN. The fecundating grains contained in the 

 anther. 



POLLINATION. The act or fact of conveying pollen 

 from anther to stigma. 



POLLINIFEROUS. Bearing pollen. 



POLYGAMOUS. Hermaphrodite and unisexual flowers 

 variously mixed upon the plant. 



POLYPETALOUS. Having separate petals. 



POME. A fleshy fruit of which the apple is a type. 



POSTERIOR. In an axillary flower, on the side near- 

 est to the axis of inflorescence. 



PRICKLE. A small spine from the bark or rind. 



PROCUMBENT. Lying on the ground or trailing but 

 without rooting at the nodes. 



PROSTRATE. Lying flat upon the ground. 



PUBERULENT. Minutely pubescent. 



PUBESCENT. Covered with hairs, especially if short, 

 soft and down-like. 



PULVERULENT. Powdered ; appearing as if covered 

 by minute grains of dust. 



PUNCTATE. Dotted with depressions or with trans- 

 lucent internal glands or colored dots. 



PUNCTICULATE. Minutely punctuate. 



PYRIFORM. Pear-shaped. 



QUALITY. The combination of characters in a fruit 

 which makes it pleasant to the palate. 



RACEME. A simple inflorescence of pediceled flowers 

 upon a more or less elongated axis. 



RACEMOSE. In racemes ; or resembling a raceme. 



RADIATE. Spreading from or arranged around a com- 

 mon center. 



RADICAL. Belonging to or proceeding from the root 

 or base of the stem near the ground. 



RAMIFICATION. Branching. 



RAPHE. The ridge which runs from the hilum to the 

 chalaza in a seed. 



RECEPTACLE. The more or less expanded or pro- 

 duced portion of an axis which bears the organs of 

 a flower or the collected flowers of a head. 



RECURVED. Curved downward or backward. 



REFLEXED. Abruptly bent or turned downward. 



REGULAR. Uniform in shape or structure. 



RENIFORM. Kidney-shaped. 



REPENT. Creeping ; prostrate and rooting at the 

 nodes. 



RESIN1FEROUS. Producing resin. 



RETICULATE. In the form of network; net-veined. 



RETRORSE. Directed back or downward. 



RETUSE. With a shallow notch at a rounded apex. 



REVOLUTE. Rolled backward from the margins or 

 apex. 



RIB. A primary or prominent vein of a leaf ; a ridge 

 on a pome-fruit. 



ROOT. The underground part of a plant which supplies 

 it with nourishment. 



ROSETTE. A much-shortened stem bearing a dense 

 cluster of leaves. 



ROSTRATE. Having a beak. 



ROTATE. Wheel-shaped ; flat and circular in outline. 



RUCINATE. Sharply incised, with the segments directed 

 backward. 



RUFOUS. Reddish-brown. 



RUGOSE. Wrinkled. 



RUNNER. A filiform or very slender stolon. 



SACCATE. Sac-shaped. 



SALVER-SHAPED. Having a slender tube abruptly 

 expanded into a flat limb. 



SCABROUS. Rough to the touch. 



SCAPE. A peduncle which arises from the ground, is 

 simple, or nearly so, not jointed, and destitute of 

 foliage. 



SCARF-SKIN. The roughened outer skin of a pome- 

 fruit. 



SCARIOUS. Thin, dry, and membranaceous, not green. 



SEED. The ripened ovule, consisting of the embryo 

 and its coats. 



SEEDLING. A plant growing directly from seed, with- 

 out the intervention of grafts, layers or cuttings. 



