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falcate - a. (L. falx, a sickle) curved like a
sickle.
farinaceous - a. (L. farina, meal) containing flour; starchy; mealy. farinose - a., full of meal; mealy; covered with a white, powdery substance. fascicle - n. (L. fasciculus, small bundle) a small bundle or tuft, as of fibers, leaves, etc. fastigiate - a. (L. fastigare, to slope up) branches close to stem and erect. fen - n. (ME. fen, fenne; AS. fen, fenn, a marsh, bog, fen) low land covered wholly or partially with water but producing sedge, coarse grasses, or other aquatic plants; boggy land; a moor or marsh; plant community on alkaline, neutral, or slightly acid peat. fenestrated - a. (L. fenstra, window) a type of leaf anatomy with small perforation or transparent spots. Confined to a few tropical monocotyledons which grow on the island of Madagascar. filament - n. (L. filum, thread) the stalk bearing the anther. filiform - a. (L. filum, thread; forma, shape) thread-like, long and very slender. fimbriate - n. (L. fimbriatus, fringed) cut into regular segments and appearing fringed at the margins. fistula - n. (L. fistula, pipe) pathological or artifical pipe-like opening; water-conducting vessel - alt. trachea. fistulose - a. same as fistulous. fistulous - a, having the form or nature of a fistula. flabellate - a. (L. flabellare, to fan) fan-shaped. flaccid - a. (L. flaccidus, flabby) weak, limp, soft, or flabby; leaves that do not have enough water and are about to wilt or are wilting. floccose - a. (L. floccus, a lock of wool) said of pubescence which gives the impression of irregular tufts of cotton or wool. florescence - n. (L. florescence, to begin to flower) bursting into bloom, alt. anthesis. floret - n. (L. flos, flower) one of the small individual flowers of a crowded inflorescence such as capitulum; flower with lemma and palea, of grasses; alt. floscule. floscule - n. (L. flosculus, little flower) a small flower; a floret. floricane - n., the stem at flowering and fruiting stage (of a bramble, Rubus). flower - n. (ME, flowre, flour, flur; OFr., flor, flur, flour, from L. flos, floris, a flower) the part of a plant containing or consisting of the organs of reproduction, either together in a monoclinous flower or separate in male and female flowers. foliaceous - a. (L. folium, leaf) having the form or texture of a foliage leaf; thin and leaf-like; bearing leaves. follicle - n. (L. folliculus, small sac) a dry dehiscent fruit formed of one carpel, and dehiscing along one side. fresh weight - same as wet weight. Generally not a useful measurement for aquatic plants. frond - n. (L. frons, a leafy branch) a leaf, especially of fern or palm; a leaf-like expansion. fruit - n. (Fr. fruit, from L. fructus, fruit) the developed ovary of the flower containing ripe seeds, whether fleshy or dry, often used to include other associated parts such as a fleshy receptacle, then called a false fruit. frutescent - a. (L. frutex, a shrub) shrubby or becoming shrubby. funicle - n. (NL. funiculus) funiculus. funiculus - n. (NL. from L. funis, a small rope) the stalk of an ovule. pl. funiculi. fusiform - a. (L. fusus, a spindle; forma, form) shaped like a spindle; thick, tapering at both ends.
gametophyte - n. (Gr. gamete, a wife; phyton, plant) the gamete-forming haploid phase in the alternation of plant generations. gamopetalous - a. (Gr. gamos, marriage; phyllon, a leaf) having the petals united so as to form a tubelike corolla. Same as sympetalous. gamosepalous - a. (Gr. gamos, marriage; sepalous) having the sepals united. gemma - n. (L. gemma, a swelling, bud, gem) a bud or outgrowth of a plant which develops into a new organism. A leaf bud rather than a flower bud. gemmates - a. (L. gemmare, to put forth buds) buds or outgrowths of a plant which develop into a new individual. gemmiparous - a. (L. gemma, a bud; parere, to bear) to produce gemmates. geniculate - a. (L. geniculatus, having knee joints, joints) bent like a knee; bent abruptly at the nodes. genotype - n. (Gr. genos, race; type) the genetic constitution of an individual. geophyte - n. (Gr. ge, earth; phyton, plant) plants with an underground dormant part such as a tuber, bulb, rhizome, etc. to help the plant survive adverse conditions. genus - n. (L. genus, race) a taxonomic group consisting of closely related species, genera being grouped into families; plural - genera; a. - generic. gibberellins - n. (Gibberella, a fungal genus) growth hormones that accelerate shoot growth. First discovered in the fungus Gibberella fujikuroi, and later in other plants. gibbous - a. (L. gibbus, hump) a distended, rounded swelling on one side, as on a calyx or corolla tube or segment. glabrate - a. (L. glaber, smooth) becoming glabrous with age. glabrous - a., with a smooth, even surface; without hairs. glade - n. (prob. Scand. golead, a lighting, illumination, fr. goleu, light, clear, AS. glaed, bright) open space surrounded by woods or a forest; a marshy and usually low-lying area; a periodically inundated grassy marsh often running between adjacent slopes; a marshy area bounding or forming the headwaters of a stream. gland - n. (L. glands, acorn) a secreting part or appendage. glandular - a. (L. glandula, small acorn) having or bearing secreting organs, glands, or trichomes. glandular-pubescent - hairs or trichomes capitate and secretory. glaucous - a. (L. glaucus, sea-green) bluish green; covered with a pale green bloom. globose - a. (L. globosus, rounded as a ball) rounded; almost spherical; globular. glomerate - vt. (L. glomus, a ball of yarn) to gather or wind into a ball; growing, collected or arranged in a rounded mass, as glands, flowers, etc.; clustered. glomerule - n., a condensed cyme of almost sessile flowers; a compact cluster as of spores. glume - n. (L. gluma, husk) a chaffy or membranous bract, a bract at the base of a grass inflorescence or spikelet. glutinous - a. (L. gluten, glue) having a sticky, moist surface; a gluey or sticky exudation. guttation - n. (L. gutta, drop) formation of drops of water on plants from moisture in air; the process of water being exuded from hydathodes at the enlarged terminations of veins around the margins of the leaves. Gymnospermae - n. (Gr. gymnos, uncovered, naked; sperma, seed) an important division of the plant kingdom, being woody plants with alternation of generations, having the gametophyte retained on the sporophyte and seeds produced on the surface of the sporophylls and not enclosed in an ovary. gynaecium - n. (Gr. gynaikeie, woman's part of a house) the female organs of the flower, consisting of one or more carpels forming one or several ovaries with their stigmas and styles. gynecandrous - a., having staminate and pistillate flowers in the same spike or spikelet, the latter above the former. gynoecium - n. (Gr. gyne, woman; oikos, house) the pistil or pistils of a flower, taken collectively; gynaecium. gynophore - n. (Gr. gyne, woman; pherein, to carry) a stalk supporting the ovary. gynostegium - n. (Gr. gyne, woman; stege, roof) a protective covering for a gynaecium, especially as formed by the union of stamens and style. |