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1. accrete, adj. View full entry 1832
...Bot. Designating parts of a plant which are usually separate but which have grown together by adhesion of external parts. Now rare....
2. achenium, n. View full entry 1819
...= achene...
3. achlamydeous, adj. View full entry 1830
...Originally: †(in the system of A. P. de Candolle): belonging to the former group Achlamydeae, comprising plants having flowers without a calyx or corolla, including willow, euphorbia, etc. (obs....
4. acrogen, n. View full entry 1834
...A cryptogam (flowerless plant) having a distinct perennial stem with the growing point at its extremity, such as a fern or a moss....
5. acrogenous, adj. View full entry 1835
...Chiefly Bot. Designating or characterized by growth at terminal branches; acrogenic. Now rare....
6. acuminose, adj. View full entry 1832
...Tapering gradually to a narrow but not pointed end....
7. admotive, adj. View full entry 1819
...Of germination: such that the testa of the seed remains attached to the base of the cotyledon, and the seedling develops next to the seed. Contrasted with remotive....
8. aerocyst, n. View full entry 1866
...An air bladder of a seaweed....
9. † aetheogam, n. View full entry 1839
...A plant of the kind formerly referred to as ‘aetheogamous’; a cryptogam....
10. † aetheogamous, adj. View full entry 1830
...= cryptogamous; spec. (according to the classification system of A. P. de Candolle) designating those cryptogams thought to have sexual organs (the ferns and fern allies, mosses, and...
11. algal, adj. and n. View full entry 1846
...Of, relating to, or characteristic of an alga, esp. a seaweed; that is an alga, or that consists of algae....
12. alismad, n. View full entry 1846
...Originally: †(J. Lindleys's name for) a plant of the former family Alismaceae (now Alismataceae), comprising various aquatic and marshland monocotyledonous plants (obs.). In later use (more...
13. † alismal, adj. View full entry 1846
...Originally (in J. Lindley's terminology): characteristic of or belonging to an alliance of plants including the families Butomaceae, Alismaceae (now Alismataceae), and Juncaginaceae; (also)...
14. alsinaceous, adj. View full entry 1832
...Belonging to or characteristic of the former family Alsinaceae, comprising herbaceous flowering plants having free (not united) sepals in the corolla, of which the chickweeds (genera Stellaria and...
15. amarant(h)ad, n. View full entry 1866
...A plant of the family Amarantaceæ, an ally of the genus Amarant(h)....
16. amaryllid, n. View full entry 1830
...A plant of the same order as the genus Amaryllis; an amaryllidaceous plant....
17. amaryllideous, adj. View full entry 1830
...= amaryllidaceous...
18. amboyna (wood), n. View full entry 1866
...The wood of the Asiatic tree Pterospermum indicum (family Sterculiaceæ). Treasury Bot.1866....
19. amental, adj.1 (and n.) View full entry 1847
...Bearing catkins; epithet of one of Lindley's alliances of Gymnogens....
20. amphigam, n. View full entry 1845
...A name given by de Candolle to the lowest order of plants, supposed to have no distinct sexual organs, also called Agamæ....
