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Axil
New page: Upper angle that a petiole or peduncle makes with the stem that bears it. {{glossary}}
Awn
New page: A bristle-like part or appendage. {{glossary}}
Awl-shaped
New page: Narrow and sharp-pointed; gradually tapering from base to a slender or stiff point. {{glossary}}
Auricle
New page: An ear-shaped part or appendage, as the projections at the base of some leaves and petals. {{glossary}}
Asexual
New page: Sexless; without sex. {{glossary}}
Articulate
New page: Jointed; provided with nodes or joints, or places where separation may naturally take place. {{glossary}}
Armed
New page: Provided with any kind of strong and sharp defense, as of thorns, spines, prickles, barbs. {{glossary}}
Arillode
New page: An aril-like structure, or false aril; a coating or covering of the seed arising from its own surface, and not from the funiculus. {{glossary}}
Arillate
New page: Provided with an aril. {{glossary}}
Aril
New page: An appendage or an outer covering of a seed, growing out from the hilum or funiculus; sometimes it appears as a pulpy covering. {{glossary}}
Areola
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Areole
New page: A small more or less angular space on a surface, as between network of veins. {{glossary}}
Arachnoid
New page: Cobwebby, by soft and slender entangled hairs; also spider-like. {{glossary}}
Appressed
New page: Closely and flatly pressed against; adpressed. {{glossary}}
Appendage
New page: An attached subsidiary or secondary part, as a projecting part or a hanging part or supplement. {{glossary}}
Apocarpus
New page: Carpels not united; see ''Syncarpous''. {{glossary}}
Apical
New page: At the apex or top. {{glossary}}
Apetalous
New page: No petals; petals missing. {{glossary}}
Antical
New page: Front, anterior. {{glossary}}
Anthodium
New page: Flower-head of the Composite; in common speech this flower-head is erroneously called a "flower." {{glossary}}
Anthocarpous
New page: Said of a body combined of flowers and fruit united into a solid mass, as in the pineapple or the mulberry. {{glossary}}
Anthesis
New page: Flowering; strictly, the time of expansion of a flower, but often used to designate the flowering period; the act of flowering. {{glossary}}
Antheriferous
New page: Anther-bearing. {{glossary}}
Anther
New page: The pollen-bearing part of the stamen, borne at the top of the filament or sometimes sessile. {{glossary}}
Anterior
New page: Front; on the front side; away from the axis; toward the subtending bract. {{glossary}}
Androphore
New page: The cylinder or column formed by monadelphous filaments, as in the mallow and bombax tribes. {{glossary}}
Andraeceum
New page: The male or stamen-bearing part of a flower; the stamens spoken of collectively. See ''Gynaecium''. {{glossary}}
Ander
New page: Male; occurs in combinations as, ''monandraus'', having one stamen. {{glossary}}
Anatropous
New page: Said of a straight ovule or seed that is inverted, with the micropyle next the hilum or scar. {{glossary}}
Anastomosing
New page: Netted; interveined; said of leaves marked by cross-veins forming a network. {{glossary}}
Axis
New page: The main or central line of development of any plant or organ; the main stem. {{glossary}}
Ascending
New page: Rising up; produced somewhat obliquely or indirectly upward. {{glossary}}
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Aberrant
New page: Unusual, or exceptional; a plant or structure that varies from customary structure or from the type; used mostly of variation. {{glossary}}
Abortive
New page: Defective; barren; not developed. {{glossary}}
Abrupt
New page: Changing suddenly rather than gradually, as a leaf that is narrowed quickly to a point, or a pinnate leaf that has no terminal leaflet; not tapering. {{glossary}}
Acaulescent
New page: Stemless, or apparently stemless; sometimes the stem is subterranean or protrudes only slightly. {{glossary}}
Accessory buds
New page: Buds more than one in an axil. {{glossary}}
Accrescent
New page: Increasing; becoming larger after flowering, as the calyx in some plants. {{glossary}}
Accumbent
New page: Lying against; said of cotyledons when the edges are placed against the radicle. {{glossary}}
Achlamydeous
New page: Lacking calyx or corolla; naked. {{glossary}}
Acinaciform
New page: Shaped like a scimitar; curved, round toward the point, being thicker on the outer side than on the convex or inner side. {{glossary}}
Acotyledonous
New page: Without cotyledons. {{glossary}}
Adnate
New page: Grown to, united with another part; as stamens with the corolla-tube or an anther in its whole length with the filament. {{glossary}}
Adventitious buds
New page: Buds appearing on occasion, rather than in regular places and order, as those arising about wounds. {{glossary}}
Adventive
New page: Said of an introduced plant not yet established; imperfectly or only partially naturalized. {{glossary}}