GLOSSAEY 



Achene. A dry, one-seeded indehiscent fruit. 



Acictilar. Needle-shaped. 



Acuminate. Tapering gradually to the apex. 



Acute. Sharp-pointed. 



Adnata. Joined tp another organ. 



Alternate. One leaf at a node. 



Anther. The part of the stamen containing the pollen. 



Apetalous. Without petals. 



Aril. A fleshy organ covering the seed. 



Ascending. Rising obliquely. 



Asexual. Without stamens or pistil. 



Auricle. An ear-like appendage. 



Awn. A slender spine. 



Axil. The point on the stem just above the point of attachment of 



a leaf. 

 Berry. A fruit with the seeds embedded in a fleshy pulp. 

 Bilabiate. Two-lipped. 

 Bipinnate. Twice pinnate. 

 Blade. The broad, flat part of the leaf. 

 Bract. A leaf just beneath the flower, usually smaller than a foliage 



leaf. 

 Bulb. An organ, usually subterranean, made of the thickened bases 



of leaves arranged as in a bud. 

 Bulblet. A small bulb sometimes borne in the axil of a leaf. 

 Bulbous. Bulb-bearing or resembling a bulb. 

 Csespitose. Growing in clumps. 

 Calyx. Outer set of floral envelopes. 

 Campanulate. Bell-shaped. 

 Canescent. Whitish owing to flne hairs. 

 Capitate. Knob-like. 



Capsule. A dry, dehiscent fruit of two carpels. 

 Carpel. The simple ovary or one part of a compound ovary. 

 Caryopsis. A hard thin-coated fruit like a grain of wheat. 

 Caudate. With a tail. 



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