56 GLOSSARY 



Sympetalous Having or consisting of united petals 

 Syncarpous Having or consisting of carpels joined together 



Teeth The regular projections along the margin of a leaf 



Tendril A slender coiling organ 



Ternate Consisting of three leaflets 



Terrestrial Growing on the ground 



Thorn A stiff sharp-pointed outgrowth from the hark or rind 



Tomentose Covered with dense, matted, wool-like hairs 



Trailing Creeping along the ground 



Trifoliate Having three leaflets 



Truncate Terminated by a nearly straight edge or surface 



Twining Winding spirally about a support 



Umbel A flower-cluster with all the pedicels arising from the same point 



Umbellate Borne in umbels 



Unarmed Without spines, thorns, or prickles 



Valve One of the portions into which some dry fruits split; a trapdoor-like opening in 



the pollen chambers of some anthers 

 Vestigial Reduced almost to disappearance 

 Villous With long soft hairs not matted together 



Webby With a tuft of slender, curly hairs 



Whorl A group of three or more similar organs, as leaves, radiating from the place of 



attachment 

 Whorled Borne in a whorl 

 Wing One of the two lateral petals of the flower of the Pea Family 



Zygomorphic Applied to a flower with petals of different form 



