| NOUN | plant | plant process, enation | a natural projection or outgrowth from a plant body or organ |
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| Meaning | A natural projection or outgrowth from a plant body or organ. | |
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| Synonym | enation | |
| Narrower | aculeus | A stiff sharp-pointed plant process |
| acumen | A tapering point | |
| apophysis | (botany) a natural swelling or enlargement | |
| blister | (botany) a swelling on a plant similar to that on the skin | |
| burl | A large rounded outgrowth on the trunk or branch of a tree | |
| callus | (botany) an isolated thickening of tissue, especially a stiff protuberance on the lip of an orchid | |
| hair, fuzz, tomentum | filamentous hairlike growth on a plant | |
| haustorium | A root-like attachment in parasitic plants that penetrates and obtains food from the host | |
| node, leaf node | (botany) the small swelling that is the part of a plant stem from which one or more leaves emerge | |
| nodule, tubercle | small rounded wartlike protuberance on a plant | |
| peristome | (botany) fringe of toothlike appendages surrounding the mouth of a moss capsule | |
| podetium | An organ or body resembling a stalk | |
| spur | tubular extension at the base of the corolla in some flowers | |
| Broader | process, outgrowth, appendage | A natural prolongation or projection from a part of an organism either animal or plant |
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