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Botanical term

Description

1

Amplexicaul

The base dilated and clasping the stem, usually of leaves

2

Annulate

With rings or ring like markings

3

Appressed

Lying flat for the whole length of the part or organ

4

Auricle

Ear like appendage

5

Blaze

Make a cut on the wood to reveal inner wood

6

Calyptrate

Cap like appendage

7

Campanulate

Bell shaped

8

Caudate

Long narrowly tipped

9

Chartaceous

Papery

10

Ciliate

Hairy

11

Circinate

Spirally coiled with the tip innermost

12

Cordate

Heart shaped

13

Coriaceous

Leathery

14

Crenulate

Minutely scalloped

15

Crisped

Finely curled

16

Cuneate

Wedge shape

17

Cupular

Cupola shape

18

Dentate

Widely large toothed

19

Dioecious

Male and female reproductive structures develop on different individuals

20

Distichous

Arranged in two opposite rows

21

Domatia

Hollow structure made by plant, that is inhabited by ants or mites

22

Emarginate

Notched at apex

23

Fimbriate

Fringed

24

Flush

Young leaves and stem

25

Fluted

With furrows or vertical buttress like grooved stem

26

Fulvous

Dull yellowish-brown or yellowish grey hairs

27

Fusiform

Spindle shaped, rod shaped gradually narrowing from the middle towards end

28

Glabrous

Without hairs

29

Glaucous

Light greenish-blue shade

30

Gregarious

Occurring in large numbers in small areas

31

Imparipinnate

Pinnate leaf with an odd number of pinnae (terminated by a single leaflet)

32

Inflorescence

Main flowering twig

33

Knotted

Lump like woody mass on stems

34

Lacinate

Divided

35

Paripinnate

Even number of leaflets (terminated by even number of leaflet)

36

Pendulous

Hanging

37

Petaloid

Petal like

38

Pilose

Covered with soft, weak, thin and clearly separated hairs

39

Pinnatifid

Pinnately lobed

40

Pinnatisect

Pinnately divided almost to midrib but segments still confluent

41

Polygamous

Bisexual and unisexual flowers in same plant

42

Puberulous

Small hairs

43

Pyriform

Pear shaped

44

Revolute

Rolled inside

45

Riparian

River and Stream side

46

Serrate

Closely small toothed

47

Serrulate

Finely serrate

48

Sessile

Without stalk

49

Spathe

Large bract ensheathing an inflorescence

50

Staminodes

A sterile stamen

51

Stellately

Star shaped

52

Stipitate

Stalked

53

Stones

Hard seeds

54

Strigose

Covered with appressed, rigid, bristle like, straight hairs

55

Suture

Junction or seam of union

56

Terete

Cylindrical without grooves or ridges

57

Tomentose

Short hairs

58

Tubercled

With a small wart-like outgrowth

59

Undulating

Wavy

60

Urceolate

Urn shaped

61

Verrucose

With warts