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Glossary 



Style. The usually slender portion of the pistil connecting the stigma 



and the ovary. See page 258. 

 Sub. A Latin prefix usually signifying somewhat, slightly or nearly. 

 Taproot. A root with a stout, tapering body as the common carrot. 

 Tendrils. A slender, leafless spirally coiled organ of attachment. 

 Terminal. At the extreme end. 

 Ternately. In threes. 



Thorn. A stout spine. A stiff, woody, sharp-pointed projection. 

 Trifoliate. Applied to compound leaves having three leaflets. 

 Trifoliolate. Same as trifoliate. 



Tree. Usually denned as a plant with a woody stem, unbranched at or 



near the base, and reaching a height of at least 15 feet. 

 Tuber. A short, thickened underground stem having buds or "eyes". 



Ex. Irish potato. 

 Twice compound. Term applied to leaves. See page 255. 

 Umbel. A flat-topped flower cluster in which all the pedicels arise from 



a common point, the outer flowers blooming earliest. 

 Valve. One of the segments into which a capsule or pod splits. 

 Veins. The smaller branches of vascular tissue forming the framework 



of the leaf. 

 Viscid. Glutinous. Sticky. 



Whorl. A cluster of leaves or other organs which are arranged in a 

 circle around a common axis. Ex. Leaves of the Oleander. 



