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Additional Vocabulary Flashcards

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Biternate

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With 2 orders of leaflets, doubly ternate with the ternate divisions again ternately divided

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Exserted

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Projected beyond, e.g. stamens beyond the corolla tube

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Hirsute

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Bearing coarse, rough, longish hairs

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Nodding

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Inclined, stooping, or bowing forward; stooping habit

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Villous

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Abounding in or covered with long, soft, straight hairs; shaggy with soft hairs

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6
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Canaliculate

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Channelled; having a longitudinal groove

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Campanulate

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Bell-shaped

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Scape

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Having the floral axis more or less erect with few or no leaves

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Arcuate

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Curved or arched, shaped like a bow

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Beard

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Tufts of long hairs, a line or zone of trichomes

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Ensiform

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Sword-shaped

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12
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Falls

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The drooping sepals of an iris flower

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13
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Standard

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The upward curving petals of an iris flower

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Crest

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An elevated ridge or rib on a surface

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Sheathing leaf

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A leaf in which the petiole and/or base surrounds the stem for an extended length like a tube

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Frond

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A large, divided leaf of a fern or palm

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Dimorphic

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Two forms (different sizes and/or shapes) within the same species

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18
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Sterile frond

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A leaf of a fern that does not bear spores

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Fertile frond

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A reproductive leaf of a fern that bears spores

20
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Spore

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A reproductive cell in ferns resulting from meiotic cell division in a sporangium

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Sporangia

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A spore-bearing case or sac

22
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Circinate

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Coiled from the tip downward

23
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Fiddlehead

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The furled fronds of a young fern

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Tomentose

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With a covering of short, matted, or tangled, soft, wooly hairs

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Pilose

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Bearing long, soft straight hairs

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Spatulate

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Simple leaf with a broad rounded apex and narrow base

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Ternate

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In groups of three - whorls of three leaves or compound leaf with three leaflets

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Acaulescent

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Without a stem, or the stem so short that the leaves are apparently all basal

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Achene

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A small, dry, indehiscent (non-splitting) fruit with a single seed and with the seed attached to the ovary wall at a single point

30
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Adventitious root

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A root that develops in an unusual position, such as on a stem

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Basal rosette

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A dense, radiating cluster of leaves (or other organs) at or near ground level

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Decumbent

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Reclining on the ground but with the tip ascending

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Eyespot

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Color change at the throat of a flower

34
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Funnelform

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Gradually widening from base to apex; funnel-shaped

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Infructescence

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The inflorescence at the fruiting stage; the fruit-bearing stalk

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Nutation

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Twining

37
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Oblique

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With unequal sides, especially a leaf base; also known as asymmetrical

38
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Peltate

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Shield-shaped; when a flat structure (such as a leaf blade) is borne on a stalk (such as the petiole) attached to the lower surface rather than to the base or margin

39
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Prostrate

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Lying flat on the ground

40
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Revolute

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With the margins rolled backward toward the underside

41
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Rhizome

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A horizontal underground stem

42
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Scabrous

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Rough to the touch due to the structure of the epidermal cells or to the presence of short, stiff hairs

43
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Tendril

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A slender, twining organ (such as a modified leaf or stem) used to grasp support for climbing

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Ternate

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In threes, as a compound leaf which is divided into three leaflets

45
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Trifoliate

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With three leaves or three leaflets

46
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Tubular

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With the form of a tube or cylinder

47
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Two-lipped

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Having two main projections or segments of an irregularly shaped corolla or calyx; bilabiate

Annuals, Perennials, Vines, and Groundcovers (10 decks)

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