The Green Thumb Flashcards
A person who studies the structure, growth, and diseases of plants
Botanist
To produce a raise plants and animals
Breed
Plants that have thick, leafless, often spiny stems and that grow in hot dry places, such as deserts
Cacti
A tree that bears cones, such as evergreen or a pine
Confier
Falling off at the end of the season are growing, such as a tree shedding leaves
Deciduous
from another of the world; foreign
Exotic
Plant leaves, especially tree leaves
Foliage
The science of raising in caring for plants especially flowers fruits and vegetables
Horticulture
The growing of plants in special solutions containing nutrients, rather than growing them in soil
Hydroponics
A place where plants are raised for sale and research.
Nursery
To fertilize a flower or plant
Pollinate
Having small sharp points, such as torrents
Prickly
Young plant that is grown from a seed
Seedling
One of the tender coiling parts of a climbing plant that helps the plant cling to it support such as a wall or stick
Tendril
The layer of soil at the surface of the ground
Topsoil