English > phytology: 1 sense > noun 1, cognition| Meaning | The branch of biology that studies plants. |
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| Synonym | botany |
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| Category of | Plantae, kingdom Plantae, plant kingdom | (botany) the taxonomic kingdom comprising all living or extinct plants |
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| acarpelous, acarpellous | Having no carpels |
| acaulescent, stemless | (of plants) having no apparent stem above ground |
| achlamydeous | not having a floral envelope or perianth |
| acropetal | Of leaves or flowers |
| acroscopic | facing or on the side toward the apex |
| acyclic | not cyclic |
| aerial | Existing or living or growing or operating in the air |
| aggregate | Composed of a dense cluster of separate units such as carpels or florets or drupelets |
| alliaceous | Of or pertaining to the botanical genus Allium |
| alternate | Of leaves and branches etc |
| annual, one-year | completing its life cycle within a year |
| annual | (botany) a plant that completes its entire life cycle within the space of a year |
| antheral, staminate | capable of fertilizing female organs |
| aphyllous | Having no leaves |
| apogamic, apogametic, apogamous | Of or relating to the development of an embryo in the absence of fertilization |
| apogamy | (botany) development of an embryo without fertilization |
| apomictic, apomictical | Of or relating to a plant that reproduces by apomixis |
| apophysis | (botany) a natural swelling or enlargement |
| apothecial | Of or relating to the apothecium of some lichens and fungi |
| archegonial, archegoniate | Of or relating to an archegonium |
| archesporial | Of or relating to the cells in a sporangium that give rise to spores |
| ariled, arillate | (of some seeds) having a fleshy and usually brightly colored cover |
| aroid, araceous | relating to a plant of the family Araceae |
| arthrosporic, arthrosporous | Of or relating to arthrospores |
| asclepiadaceous | Of or relating to plants of the milkweed family |
| ascocarpous | Of or relating to ascocarps |
| ascosporic, ascosporous | Of or relating to ascospores |
| assurgent | Growing or extending upward |
| autogamous, autogamic | Characterized by or fit for autogamy |
| autotrophic, autophytic | Of or relating to organisms (as green plants) that can make complex organic nutritive compounds from simple inorganic sources by photosynthesis |
| axile, axial | relating to or attached to the axis |
| axillary, alar | Of or relating to the axil |
| basidiomycetous | pertaining to or characteristic of fungi of the class Basidiomycetes |
| basidiosporous | Of or relating to or characterized by spores produced by basidia |
| basifixed | attached by its base (as certain anthers to their filaments or stalks) |
| basipetal | Of leaves or flowers |
| basiscopic | facing or on the side toward the base |
| bicapsular | divided into two capsules or having a two-part capsule |
| biennial, two-year | Having a life cycle lasting two seasons |
| biennial | (botany) a plant having a life cycle that normally takes two seasons from germination to death to complete |
| bifid | divided into two lobes |
| bilabiate, two-lipped | Having two lips |
| bladed | Having a blade or blades |
| blister | (botany) a swelling on a plant similar to that on the skin |
| brachiate | Having widely spreading paired branches |
| bryophytic | relating to plants of the division Bryophyta |
| bullate | Of leaves |
| callus | (botany) an isolated thickening of tissue, especially a stiff protuberance on the lip of an orchid |
| calyceal, calycine, calycinal | Of or relating to or resembling a calyx |
| calyx | (botany) the whorl of sepals of a flower collectively forming the outer floral envelope or layer of the perianth enclosing and supporting the developing bud |
| cambial | Of or relating to or functioning as a cambium |
| cancellate, cancellated, clathrate | Having a latticelike structure pierced with holes or windows |
| capsular | Of or relating to a capsule |
| capsulate, capsulated | Used of seeds or spores that are enclosed in a capsule |
| carpellate, pistillate | bearing or consisting of carpels |
| caulescent, cauline, stemmed | (of plants) producing a well-developed stem above ground |
| cauline | especially of leaves |
| chlamydeous | Having a floral envelope or perianth consisting of a calyx and/or corolla |
| cohesion | (botany) the process in some plants of parts growing together that are usually separate (such as petals) |
| coma | (botany) a usually terminal tuft of bracts (as in the pineapple) or tuft of hairs (especially on certain seeds) |
| comate, comose | bearing a coma |
| comate, comose, comal | Of certain seeds (such as cotton) having a tuft or tufts of hair |
| composite | Of or relating to or belonging to the plant family Compositae |
| compound | Composed of more than one part |
| convolute, convoluted | Rolled longitudinally upon itself |
| corolla | (botany) the whorl of petals of a flower that collectively form an inner floral envelope or layer of the perianth |
| corona | (botany) the trumpet-shaped or cup-shaped outgrowth of the corolla of a daffodil or narcissus flower |
| cruciferous | Of or relating to or belonging to the plant family Cruciferae |
| cyclic | forming a whorl or having parts arranged in a whorl |
| cymose | Having a usually flat-topped flower cluster in which the main and branch stems each end in a flower that opens before those below it or to its side |
| determinate | not continuing to grow indefinitely at the apex |
| dextrorse, dextrorsal | spiraling upward from left to right |
| diclinous | Having pistils and stamens in separate flowers |
| dissilience | The emergence of seeds as seed pods burst open when they are ripe |
| division | (botany) taxonomic unit of plants corresponding to a phylum |
| double | Used of flowers having more than the usual / usual number of petals in crowded or overlapping arrangements |
| embryo | (botany) a minute rudimentary plant contained within a seed or an archegonium |
| endogamous, endogamic | Characterized by or fit for fertilization by pollen from another flower of the same kind |
| epiphytic | Of or relating to epiphytes |
| estivation, aestivation | (botany) the arrangement of sepals and petals in a flower bud before it opens |
| etiolation | (botany) the act of causing a plant to develop without chlorophyll by growing it without exposure to sunlight |
| exogamous, exogamic | Characterized by or fit for fertilization by a flower that is not closely related |
| fastigiate | Having clusters of erect branches (often appearing to form a single column) |
| foliate | (often used as a combining form) having or resembling a leaf or having a specified kind or number of leaves |
| foliation, leafing | (botany) the process of forming leaves |
| foliolate | (often used as a combining form) having leaflets (compound leaves) or a specified kind or number of leaflets |
| germ tube | (botany) a slender tubular outgrowth from a spore in germination |
| heterotrophic | requiring organic compounds of carbon and nitrogen for nourishment |
| homostylous, homostylic, homostyled | (botany) having styles all of the same length |
| imbricate, imbricated | Used especially of leaves or bracts |
| indeterminate | Having a capacity for continuing to grow at the apex |
| invaginate | sheathe |
| involucrate | Having an involucre |
| involute, rolled | especially of petals or leaves in bud |
| inward-developing | Toward an axis, as in a sunflower |
| ligneous | Consisting of or containing lignin or xylem |
| ligule | (botany) any appendage to a plant that is shaped like a strap |
| lip | (botany) either of the two parts of a bilabiate corolla or calyx |
| lithophytic | Of or relating to lithophytes |
| lobe | (botany) a part into which a leaf is divided |
| monoclinous | Having pistils and stamens in the same flower |
| myrmecophytic | Of or relating to myrmecophytes |
| naturalist, natural scientist | A biologist knowledgeable about natural history (especially botany and zoology) |
| node, leaf node | (botany) the small swelling that is the part of a plant stem from which one or more leaves emerge |
| opposite, paired | Of leaves etc |
| outward-developing | Away from an axis, as in a flower cluster in which the oldest flowers are in the center, the youngest near the edge |
| panicled | Having panicles |
| paniculate | Having a panicle |
| papilla | (botany) a tiny outgrowth on the surface of a petal or leaf |
| parthenocarpy | (botany) the development of a fruit without fertilization or seeds |
| pentamerous | divided into five parts |
| perennial | lasting three seasons or more |
| perennial | (botany) a plant lasting / lasting for three seasons or more |
| peristome | (botany) fringe of toothlike appendages surrounding the mouth of a moss capsule |
| phellem, cork | (botany) outer tissue of bark |
| phloem, bast | (botany) tissue that conducts synthesized food substances (e.g., from leaves) to parts where needed |
| phyllodial | Having a phyllode |
| phytohormone, plant hormone, growth regulator | (botany) a plant product that acts like a hormone |
| pistillate | Having gynoecia, or pistils, the ovule-bearing organ of a seed plant |
| pitcher | (botany) a leaf that that is modified in such a way as to resemble a pitcher or ewer |
| plant, flora, plant life | (botany) a living organism lacking the power of locomotion |
| pollen tube | (botany) a slender tubular outgrowth from a pollen grain when deposited on the stigma for a flower |
| precocious | Appearing or developing early |
| racemose | Having stalked flowers along an elongated stem that continue to open in succession from below as the stem continues to grow |
| radical, basal | especially of leaves |
| root | (botany) the usually underground organ that lacks buds or leaves or nodes |
| rough | Of the margin of a leaf shape |
| rugose | Of leaves |
| scapose | resembling or consisting of a scape |
| scurf | (botany) a covering that resembles scales or bran that covers some plant parts |
| self-pollinating | Of or relating to or characteristic of self-pollination |
| simple, unsubdivided | (botany) of leaf shapes |
| single | Used of flowers having usually only one row or whorl of petals |
| sinistrorse, sinistrorsal | spiraling upward from right to left |
| smooth | Of the margin of a leaf shape |
| spicate | Having or relating to spikes |
| spike | (botany) an indeterminate inflorescence bearing sessile flowers on an unbranched axis |
| sporulate | convert into spores |
| sporulate | produce spores |
| squamulose | Covered with tiny scales |
| style | (botany) the narrow elongated part of the pistil between the ovary and the stigma |
| taproot | (botany) main root of a plant growing straight downward from the stem |
| terete | especially of plant parts |
| tomentose | Covered with densely matted filaments |
| torulose | Of a cylindrical or ellipsoid body |
| trifid | divided into three lobes |
| umbelliferous | relating to or belonging to plants of the family Umbelliferae |
| umbelliform | resembling or in the form of an umbel |
| venation | (botany) the arrangement of veins in a leaf |
| vernation | (botany) the arrangement of young / young leaves in a leaf bud before it opens |
| Narrower | mycology | The branch of botany that studies fungi and fungus-caused diseases |
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| paleobotany, palaeobotany | The study of fossil plants |
| phycology, algology | The branch of botany that studies algae |
| pomology | The branch of botany that studies and cultivates fruits |
| pteridology | The branch of botany that studies ferns |
| Broader | biology, biological science | The science that studies living organisms |
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| Spanish | botánica |
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| Catalan | botànica, fitologia |
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| Nouns | phytologist | a biologist specializing in the study of plants |
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