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Cal Vet - Veterinary terms Category: Health and Medicine > Veterinary terms Date & country: 29/12/2010, USA Words: 39

Alternate
Only one leaf arising at a node.

Annual
Normally living only one year. Winter annuals germinate in the autumn and mature and die the next spring or summer.

Anther
The pollen-bearing part of a stamen.

Basal
Arising from the stem at or below the ground surface only.

Berry
A fleshy fruit having numerous seeds embedded in the flesh (tomato, Solanum, Phytolacca).

Biennial
Normally living two years.

Bisexual or Perfect
With both stamens and pistils.

Bract
A reduced (smaller than normal sized) leaf at the base of a flower-stalk. If the flower-stalk is short or absent the bract or bracts may be at the base of a flower and resemble sepals.

Capsule
A dry, many-seeded fruit derived from more than one carpel, splitting open at maturity. Capsules often have several chambers (Ricinus, Agrostemma).

Carpel
A simple pistil or a single member of a compound pistil; regarded as a modified leaf.

Cauline
Of or pertaining to the stem. Cauline leaves are those borne on the stems above the soil surface.

Compound Leaf
A leaf in which the blade is composed of separate parts, each part called a leaflet. Decompound means more than once compound.

Dioecious Plant
Flowers unisexual but with only one sex per individual plant.

Follicle
A dry fruit derived from only one carpel which splits open on one side at maturity. Follicles have one chamber and many seeds (Asclepias, Apocynum).

Glabrous
Without hairs on the surface.

Herbaceous
With soft tissues that collapse soon after death.

Legume or Pod
The fruit of members of the family Leguminosae. One chambered, normally splitting on both edges, enclosing a row of seeds (garden peas and beans, Cassia, Robinia).

Lenticel
A portion of the cork layer in the bark of stems where the cells are loose, allowing exchange of gases. Usually they are raised and they may be a different color from the rest of the bark.

Monoecious Plant
Flowers unisexual but with both kinds of flowers on one individual plant.

Opposite
Two leaves arising at a node.

Ovary
The enlarged lower part of the pistil, enclosing the ovules or young seeds.

Palmate
Arranged like the fingers arising from the palm of the hand, with the several parts all attached to one point.

Panicle
Loose, diversely branching flower cluster.

Perennial
Living more than two years.

Pinnate
Arranged like a feather, with the parts arising along a central axis.

Pistil
The ovule-bearing or seed-bearing organ of a flower, consisting, when complete, of ovary, style and stigma.

Pubescent
With hairs. There are various kinds of pubescence, differing in the stiffness, length, and density of the hairs (villous, hirsute, hispid, tomentose, etc.)

Rhizome
A horizontal underground stem. Rhizomes produce stems above ground at intervals, as in sod-forming grasses, bracken fern, and others.

Sessile
Without a petiole or leaf-stalk, that is, the blade is attached directly to the stem.

Simple Leaf
A leaf in which the blade is all one unit.

Stamen
The pollen-bearing organ of a flower, of a flower, consisting of the filament and the anther.

Stigma
That part of a pistil which receives the pollen.

Stipule
One of a pair of appendages sometimes present at the base of a leaf-stalk.

Stolon or Runner
Similar to a rhizome (being a stem), but located on or near the soil surface.

Style
A narrow, usually of cylindrical and more or less filiform extension of the ovary, which, when present, bears the stigma at its apex.

Tendril
An elongated twining segment of a leaf or branch, usually supporting the stem.

Unisexual
With either stamens (staminate flower) or pistils (pistillate flower), but not both.

Whorled
More than two leaves arising at a node.

Woody
With hard (lignified) tissues that will retain their shape long after death.