"Anthodium" is a word in ENGLISH
The inflorescence of a compound flower in which many
florets are gathered into a involucrate head.
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Developing from below towards the apex, or from the circumference towards the center; centripetal; -- said of certain inflorescence.
Read the complete definitionA species of inflorescence; a catkin.
Read the complete definitionResembling, or consisting of, an ament or aments; as, the chestnut has an amentaceous inflorescence.
Read the complete definitionThe arrangement of flowers in a cluster; the science of the relative position of flowers; inflorescence.
Read the complete definitionOf the racemose or acropetal type of inflorescence.
Read the complete definitionAn ament; a species of inflorescence, consisting of a slender axis with many unisexual apetalous flowers along its sides, as …
Read the complete definitionExpanding first at the base of the inflorescence, and proceeding in order towards the summit.
Read the complete definitionA tuft or bunch, -- as the assemblage of branches forming the head of a tree; or a cluster of …
Read the complete definitionAn abnormal prolongation of the axis of inflorescence.
Read the complete definitionSpreading loosely, especially on one side; as, an effuse inflorescence.
Read the complete definitionA flowering; the putting forth and unfolding of blossoms.
Read the complete definitionAn axis on which all the flower buds.
Read the complete definitionThe mode of flowering, or the general arrangement and disposition of the flowers with reference to the axis, and to …
Read the complete definitionA pyramidal form of inflorescence, in which the cluster is loosely branched below and gradually simpler toward the end.
Read the complete definitionA large and flexible panicle of inflorescence resembling a feather, such as is seen in certain large ornamental grasses.
Read the complete definitionOn the side next the axis of inflorescence; -- said of an axillary flower.
Read the complete definitionpútis = pulaynas. putítu tri n potato tree, an ornamental shade tree bearing violet inflorescences with yellow centers: Solanum macranthum.
Read the complete definitionA branch of inflorescence; the zigzag axis on which the florets are arranged in the spikelets of grasses.
Read the complete definitionHaving the inflorescence curved or circinate at the end, like a scorpion's tail.
Read the complete definitionAny plant of the genus Carex, perennial, endogenous herbs, often growing in dense tufts in marshy places. They have triangular …
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