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Question 1

Basal

Answer 1

placentation

Question 2

Barbellate

Answer 2

furnished with short, sometimes microscopic barbs, too small for the bristle to be called plumose, usually applied to the scabrid bristles of the pappus (q.v.) of achenes in the Asteraceae

Question 3

Basifixed

Answer 3

refers to anthers joined at the base to the filament

Question 4

Beak

Answer 4

prominent prolongation of fruit

Question 5

Berry

Answer 5

a succulent indehiscent fruit with the seed or seeds immersed in a pulp

Question 6

Bicostate

Answer 6

2-ribbed

Question 7

Biennial

Answer 7

a plant which has a 2-year life-cycle. flowering and dying in the second year

Question 8

Bifid

Answer 8

dividing into 2 for about half its length

Question 9

Bilabiate

Answer 9

2-lipped as applied to the limb of a corolla with an upper and lower lip

Question 10

Bipinnate

Answer 10

twice pinnate

Question 11

Bisexual

Answer 11

with fertile stamens and pistil in the same flower

Question 12

Boss

Answer 12

knob

Question 13

Bract

Answer 13

a much-reduced leaf-like organ bearing a flower, inflorescence or partial inflorescence in its axil

Question 14

Bracteole

Answer 14

a small (large in A triplex) bract below the calyx, borne on the pedicel.

Question 15

Brush

Answer 15

the part terminating the thickened and enlarged style-end in certain genera of the Proteaceae.

Question 16

Bulb

Answer 16

a short underground stem bearing a number of swollen fleshy leaf bases or scale leaves enclosing the bud for the next year’s growth

Question 17

Bublbish

Answer 17

minute bulbs arising around the mother bulb

Question 18

Bullate

Answer 18

leaves with bubble-like blistered surfaces.