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  2. Glossary of plant morphology - Wikipedia

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    Plant habit refers to the overall shape of a plant, and it describes a number of components such as stem length and development, branching pattern, and texture. While many plants fit neatly into some main categories, such as grasses, vines, shrubs, or trees, others can be more difficult to categorise.

  3. Ischium - Wikipedia

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    Adoption of ischium into English-language medical literature dates back to c. 1640; the Latin term derives from Greek ἰσχίον iskhion meaning "hip joint". The division of the acetabulum into ischium (ἰσχίον) and ilium (λαγών, os lagonicum) is due to Galen, De ossibus. Galen, however, omits mention of the pubis as a separate ...

  4. Plant morphology - Wikipedia

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    The detailed study of reproductive structures in plants led to the discovery of the alternation of generations, found in all plants and most algae, by the German botanist Wilhelm Hofmeister. This discovery is one of the most important made in all of plant morphology, since it provides a common basis for understanding the life cycle of all plants.

  5. Category:Ischium - Wikipedia

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    Category: Ischium. 3 languages. ... Pages in category "Ischium" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...

  6. Ischiopubic ramus - Wikipedia

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    The ischiopubic ramus is a compound structure consisting of the following two structures: from the pubis, the bones inferior pubic ramus; from the ischium, the inferior ramus of the ischium; It forms the inferior border of the obturator foramen and serves as part of the origin for the obturator internus and externus muscles.

  7. Dicotyledon - Wikipedia

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    The name refers to one of the typical characteristics of the group: namely, that the seed has two embryonic leaves or cotyledons. There are around 200,000 species within this group. [3] The other group of flowering plants were called monocotyledons (or monocots), typically each having one cotyledon. Historically, these two groups formed the two ...

  8. Binomial nomenclature - Wikipedia

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    This means the species a binomial name refers to can be clearly identified, as compared to the common names of species which are usually different in every language. [6] However, establishing that two names actually refer to the same species and then determining which has priority can sometimes be difficult, particularly if the species was ...

  9. Rhizome - Wikipedia

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    Some plants have rhizomes that grow above ground or that lie at the soil surface, including some Iris species as well as ferns, whose spreading stems are rhizomes. Plants with underground rhizomes include gingers , bamboo , snake plant , the Venus flytrap , Chinese lantern , western poison-oak , [ 13 ] hops, and Alstroemeria , and some grasses ...