NOUN | relation | enation, matrilineage, cognation | line of descent traced through the maternal side of the family |
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plant | enation, plant process | a natural projection or outgrowth from a plant body or organ |
Meaning | line of descent traced through the maternal side of the family. | |
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Synonyms | matrilineage, cognation | |
Broader | unilateral descent | line of descent traced through one side of the family |
Meaning | A natural projection or outgrowth from a plant body or organ. | |
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Synonym | plant process | |
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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