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Taper-pointed : same as acuminate. 



Tap-root : a root with a stout tapering body. 



Tawny : dull yellowish, with a tinge of brown. 



Taxonomy : the part of Botany which treats of classification. 



Tegmen ; a name for the inner seed-coat. 



Tendril: a thread-shaped body used for climbing: it is either a branch 



as in Virginia Creeper; or a part of a leaf, as in Pea or Vetch. 

 Terete : long and round ; same as cylindrical, only it may taper. 

 Terminal : borne at, or belonging to, the extremity or summit. 

 Terminology : the part of the science which treats of technical terms ; 



same as glossology. 



Ternate : in threes; Temately : in a ternate way. 

 Testa : the outer (and usually the harder) coat or shell of the seed^ 

 Tetra- (in words of Greek composition) : four, as 

 Tetracoccous : of four cocci or carpels. 

 Tetradynamous : where a flower has six stamens, two of them shorter 



than the other four, as in Mustard. 



Tetragonal: four-angled. Tetragynous : with four pistils or styles. 

 Tetramerous : with its parts or sets in fours. 

 Tetrandrous : with four stamens. 

 Theca : a case ; the cells or lobes of the anther. 

 Thread-shaped : slender and round, or roundish like a thread; as the 



filament of stamens generally. 

 Throat: the opening or gorge of a monopetalous corolla, etc., where the 



border and the tube join, and a little below. 

 Thyrse or Thyisus: a compact and pyramidal panicle. 

 Tomentose : clothed with matted wooly hairs (tomentum.} 

 Tongue-shaped : long, flat, but thickish and blunt. 

 Toothed : furnished with teeth or short projections of any sort on the 



margin, used especially when these are sharp, like saw-teeth, and do 



not point forwards. 



Top-shaped : shaped like a top, or a cone with its apex downwards. 

 Torose, Torulose : knobby; where a cylindrical body is swollen at intervals. 

 Torus : the receptacle of the flower. 

 7H-, in composition : three; as 



Tiiadelphous : stamens united by their filaments into three bundles. 

 Triandrous : where the flower has three stamens. 

 Trichotomous : three-forked. Tricoccous : of three cocci or roundish 



carpels. 



Tricolor : having three colors. Trico state : having three ribs. 

 Tricuspidate : three-pointed. Tridental 'e : three-toothed. 

 Triennial: lasting for three years. 



Trifarious: in three vertical rows; looking three ways. 

 Trifid : three-cleft. 



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