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  2. Glossary of botanical terms - Wikipedia

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    A stalk bearing both the androecium and gynoecium of a flower above the level of insertion of the perianth. androgynous Having male and female flowers in the same inflorescence. androphore The stalk or column supporting the stamen s in certain flowers. andromonoecious Having bisexual flowers and male flowers on the same individual plant.

  3. Glossary of plant morphology - Wikipedia

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    Petiole – a leaf stalk supporting a blade and attaching to a stem at a node. Petiolule - the leaf stalk of a leaflet. Pulvinus – the swollen base of a petiole or petiolule, usually involved in leaf movements and leaf orientation. Rachilla – a secondary axis of a multiply compound leaf. Rachis – main axis of a pinnately compound leaf.

  4. Synonym (taxonomy) - Wikipedia

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    A homotypic synonym need not share an epithet or name with the correct name; what matters is that it shares the type. For example, the name Taraxacum officinale for a species of dandelion has the same type as Leontodon taraxacum L. The latter is a homotypic synonym of Taraxacum officinale F.H.Wigg.

  5. List of shibboleths - Wikipedia

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    The term originates from the Hebrew word shibbólet (שִׁבֹּלֶת ‎), which means the part of a plant containing grain, such as the head of a stalk of wheat or rye; [1] [2] [3] or less commonly (but arguably more appropriately) [a] "flood, torrent".

  6. List of descriptive plant species epithets (I–Z) - Wikipedia

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    Vitis vinifera ("wine-bearing"). Since the first printing of Carl Linnaeus's Species Plantarum in 1753, plants have been assigned one epithet or name for their species and one name for their genus, a grouping of related species. [1]

  7. Glossary of bird terms - Wikipedia

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    A small, freely-moving projection on the anterior edge of the wing of modern birds (and a few non-avian dinosaurs)—a bird's "thumb"—the word is Latin and means 'winglet'; it is the diminutive of ala, meaning 'wing'. Alula typically bear three to five small flight feathers, with the exact number depending on the species.

  8. Synonym - Wikipedia

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    Synonym list in cuneiform on a clay tablet, Neo-Assyrian period [1] A synonym is a word, morpheme, or phrase that means precisely or nearly the same as another word, morpheme, or phrase in a given language. [2] For example, in the English language, the words begin, start, commence, and initiate are all synonyms of one another: they are ...

  9. List of organisms with names derived from Indigenous ...

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    The genus name derives from the verb kyhyty and the particle suka, tiogether meaning "the one that cuts with something sharp" because of its unique teeth. The species name derives from the town of Sáchica, near where the holotype was found. [136] Lakukullus †