Meaning | A natural projection or outgrowth from a plant body or organ. |
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Synonym | plant process |
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Narrower | aculeus | A stiff sharp-pointed plant process |
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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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