Adipocelluloses 
Aérobium 
some other organ or part ; Goebel 
restricts it to union of dissimilar 
parts ; cf. CoHEsION. 
Adipocel’luloses (adeps, adipis, fat, + 
. Cellulose), a group of bodies which 
constitute the cuticular tissues of 
leaves and fruits; cf. CELLULOSE. 
adisca‘lis (a, without ; dickos, a quoit), 
destitute of a disk. 
adli’gans (ad, to ; ligo, I tie), holding 
fast or binding, as the aérial hold- 
fasts of ivy. 
Adminic’ulum (Lat., a prop)=FuL- 
oRUM. 
admoti’vus (ad, to; moveo, I move), 
when in germination the albumen 
remains attached to the sheath of 
the cotyledon. 
adnas’cent, adnas'’cens (adnascor, to 
grow to), growing to or upon some- 
thing else ; Adnas’cens; (1) a young 
bulb, as a “‘clove” of garlic; (2) 
a sucker of some Monocotyledons. 
adnate, adna'tus (adnascor, to grow 
to), attached the whole length, 
~ Anth’ers have the lobes attached 
their entire length to the filament ; 
Adna'tion, the state in question; 
adnexed’ (newxo, to tie), used of the 
lamellae of some Agarics, which 
reach the stem, but are not adnate 
to it; ad’pressed, adpress'us= AP- 
PRESSED; adscend’ent = ASCENDENT ; 
adsurg’ent, adsurg’ens = ASSURGENT. 
adunc’ate,adune’ous (aduncus, hooked) 
bent or crooked as a hook. 
adust’us (Lat.), soot-coloured, fuli- 
ginous. 
adventit’ious, adventit'ius (ad, to; 
venio, I come), applied to plants 
lately introduced; ~ Buds, those 
produced abnormally, as from the 
stem instead of the axils of the 
leaves; ~ Roots, those which do 
not arise from the radicle or its 
subdivisions, but from other part ; 
advent’ive = ADVENTITIOUS. 
ad’verse (ad, to; verso, I turn); (1) 
opposite ; (2) facing the main axis 
or other object; advers’us (Lat.), 
opposite ; adversifo’liate, adverst- 
fo'lius ( folium, a leaf), having oppo- 
site leaves. 
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Adynaman’dry (déwayla, weakness ; 
dvhp, dvépos, a man), Delpino’s 
term for self-sterility ; that is, 
when a flower does not set seed 
from its own pollen. 
Aecid‘iospore (Aecidium, infra ; sropa, 
a seed), a spore formed in the fol- 
lowing: Aecid’ium (probably from 
olxldvov, a little house), 4 sporocarp 
consisting of a cup-shaped envelope, 
its interior surface consisting of a 
hymenium, from whose basidia 
the aecidiospores are successively 
threwn off; the name was pro- 
pounded by Persoon as a genus of 
Fungi, but it is now regarded as 
only a form-genus of Uredineae. 
Aecol’ogy = EcoLoey or OEcoLocY. 
ae’neus (Lat. bronze), used for brass- 
coloured ; sometimes for verdigris. 
aequa’lis, ae’quans (Lat.), equal or 
equalling ; similar in size, uniform ; 
aequilat’eral, aequilatera'lis, equal- 
sided, of equal length; aequali- 
flor'us (Lat.), with flowers alike in 
form and character ; aequimag’nus 
+ (Lat.), equal sized ; aequinoc’tial, 
aequinoctia‘lis, pertaining to the 
equinox ; used of flowers, which 
open or close at stated hours; 
aequivalv’is (Lat.), having valves 
of flowers or fruit of similar size ; 
aequive’nius (Lat.), all the veins of 
equal distinctness. 
aerating (aér, air) Roots, peculiar 
roots rising out of the mud, covered 
with a loose, corky tissue, and 
having large intercellular spaces ; 
aé‘rial, aé’rius, plants (or parts of 
plants) living above the surface of 
the ground or water; ~ Plants, 
epiphytes, as Tillandsia and many 
tropical orchids; ~ Roots, those 
which vegetate altogether above 
the ground; Aérench’yma (éyxvua, 
that poured out), Schenk’s term 
for a tissue of thin-walled cells, 
and large inter-cellular spaces, 
found in the stems of some marsh- 
pa serving for aération or 
cating tissue; Aéro’bium (los, 
life), an organism which thrives only 
in the presence of air or free oxy- 
