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  2. Glossary of botanical terms - Wikipedia

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    Such tissue is commonly formed, for example, at the base of a petiole or pedicel. acaulescent Having no apparent stem, or at least none visible above the ground surface. [2] Examples include some species of Oxalis, [5] Nolina, [6] and Yucca. [7] Antonym: caulescent (possessing stem). accrescent

  3. Reticulation - Wikipedia

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    Reticulation is a net-like pattern, arrangement, or structure.. Reticulation or Reticulated may refer to: . Reticulation (single-access key), a structure of an identification tree, where there are several possible routes to a correct identification

  4. Monocotyledon - Wikipedia

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    Nymphaeaceae (water lilies) have reticulate veins, a single cotyledon, adventitious roots, and a monocot-like vascular bundle. These examples reflect their shared ancestry. [35] Nevertheless, this list of traits is generally valid, especially when contrasting monocots with eudicots, rather than non-monocot flowering plants in general. [34]

  5. Reticulate evolution - Wikipedia

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    Reticulate evolution can happen between lineages separated only for a short time, for example through hybrid speciation in a species complex. Nevertheless, it also takes place over larger evolutionary distances, as exemplified by the presence of organelles of bacterial origin in eukaryotic cells.

  6. Glossary of arthropod cuticle - Wikipedia

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    This is a glossary of terms used in the description of arthropod cuticle, including that of insects such as ants.These animals can have surface textures spanning and combining cracks, excavations, imbrications, mealiness, punctures, reticulations, roughness, scratches, spots, wrinkles, and more (generically, 'sculpturing' or 'microsculpture').

  7. 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]

  8. List of tautonyms - Wikipedia

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    The following is a list of tautonyms: zoological names of species consisting of two identical words (the generic name and the specific name have the same spelling). Such names are allowed in zoology, but not in botany, where the two parts of the name of a species must differ (though differences as small as one letter are permitted, as in cumin, Cuminum cyminum).

  9. Mauritia maculifera - Wikipedia

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    Synonyms [1] Cypraea maculifera ( Schilder , 1932) Mauritia maculifera , common name : the blotched cowry or reticulated cowry , is a species of sea snail , a cowry , a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cypraeidae , the cowries.