English > plant organ: 1 sense > noun 1, plant| Meaning | A functional and structural unit of a plant or fungus. |
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| Narrower | archegonium | A female sex organ occurring in mosses, ferns, and most gymnosperms |
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| capitulum, head | A dense cluster of flowers or foliage |
| cup | Cup-shaped plant organ |
| fruiting body | An organ specialized for producing spores |
| galea | An organ shaped like a helmet |
| gill, lamella | Any of the radiating leaflike spore-producing structures on the underside of the cap of a mushroom or similar fungus |
| hypanthium, floral cup, calyx tube | The cuplike or ringlike or tubular structure of a flower which bears the sepals and stamens and calyx (as in Rosaceae) |
| hypobasidium | Special cell constituting the base of the basidium in various fungi especially of the order Tremellales |
| leaf, leafage, foliage | The main organ of photosynthesis and transpiration in higher plants |
| mescal button, sacred mushroom, magic mushroom | The button-shaped top of the mescal cactus |
| nectary, honey gland | A gland (often a protuberance or depression) that secretes nectar |
| perianth, chlamys, floral envelope, perigone, perigonium | Collective term for the outer parts of a flower consisting of the calyx and corolla and enclosing the stamens and pistils |
| reproductive structure | The parts of a plant involved in its reproduction |
| root | (botany) the usually underground organ that lacks buds or leaves or nodes |
| root cap | thimble-shaped mass of cells covering and protecting the growing tip of a root |
| root hair | Thin hairlike outgrowth of an epidermal cell just behind the tip |
| septum | A partition or wall especially in an ovary |
| sprout | Any new growth of a plant such as a new branch or a bud |
| stalk, stem | A slender or elongated structure that supports a plant or fungus or a plant part or plant organ |
| stolon, runner, offset | A horizontal branch from the base of plant that produces new plants from buds at its tips |
| Broader | plant part, plant structure | Any part of a plant or fungus |
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| Spanish | órgano, órgano vegetal |
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| Catalan | òrgan d'una planta, òrgan, òrgan vegetal |
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