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deciduous 2 |
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habit |
plant |
Perennial and having all leaves separating and falling away during a particular portion of the yearly cycle, especially the autumn or the dry season, between growing seasons. Semantically, this term is properly applied only to the entity that falls, not to the structure that it separates and falls from; in traditional usage, though, the term has been applied to trees and other perennial plants that shed all their leaves at some time during the yearly cycle. |
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shrub |
= frutex; > bush |
nominative |
plant |
Perennial, woody, relatively short, with a single main stem that is not distinctly columnar and branches from or above ground level, the branches often crowded. See also subshrub (suffrutex, undershrub), tree, woody clump. |
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cormose |
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architecture |
plant |
Growing from corms. |
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floating 1 |
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habit |
plant |
Buoyant and growing entirely at or near the surface of water, not rooted in any substrate. |
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runnering |
= sarmentose, stoloniferous |
architecture |
plant |
Producing runners (stolons), by means of which it propagates vegetatively. |
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shrubby |
> bushy, frutescent, fruticose |
habit |
plant |
Having or developing the character of a shrub. See also arboreous, arborescent, subshrubby, suffrutescent, suffruticose, tree-like, woody-clumping. |
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symbiotic |
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nutrition |
plant |
Partially dependent for essential nourishment upon other living organisms that derive some reciprocal benefit from the relationship. |
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soboliferous |
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architecture |
plant |
Having several, loosely clumped, principal stems that arise from a common underground stem system, each distinct above ground level. |
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summer annual |
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nominative |
plant |
Annual, germinating in spring or early summer, reproducing sexually with no prolonged vegetative stage beforehand, and dying by late summer or autumn. See also winter annual. |
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tree |
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nominative |
plant |
Perennial, woody, more or less erect, relatively tall, with one or more distinct aboveground portions each with a single, relatively stout, columnar, main stem (trunk or bole) that bears branches. See also bush, frutex, shrub, subshrub, suffrutex, undershrub, woody clump. |
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evergreen |
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habit |
plant |
Perennial and bearing some viable leaves at all times during the yearly cycle. |
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macrophyllous (not recommended) |
= megaphyllous |
architecture |
plant |
Bearing megaphylls. |
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pitcher-leaved |
= ascidiate |
architecture |
plant |
Bearing pitcher-bladed (ascidiate) leaves; esp. in Nepenthaceae, Sarraceniaceae. |
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tuberous 1 |
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architecture |
plant |
Bearing tubers. |
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weeping |
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architecture |
plant |
Having elongate, flexible, pendent branches. |
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heterotrophic |
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nutrition |
plant |
Dependent upon other organisms for some or all of its essential nourishment, assimilating such materials either directly from the other organisms, living or dead, or from their products. |
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tree-form |
> arboreous, arborescent |
habit |
plant |
Having or developing the character of a tree. See also bushy, frutescent, fruticose, shrubby, subshrubby, suffrutescent, suffruticose, woody-clumping. |
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biennial 2 |
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nominative |
plant |
Of biennial duration. |
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parasitic |
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nutrition |
plant |
Heterotrophic and obtaining essential nourishment directly from other living organisms that derive no reciprocal benefit. |
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stemless |
= acaulous |
architecture |
plant |
Lacking any evident, elongate, aboveground stem, other than reproductive axes, at maturity, the leaves and/or reproductive axes arising essentially at substrate level from a very short axis with highly congested nodes. |
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rooted |
= radicate |
architecture |
plant |
Having one or more roots. |
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stemmed |
= caulescent |
architecture |
plant |
Having at maturity an evident, elongate, aboveground stem or stems from which branches, leaves, and/or reproductive axes arise at one or more levels along its length. |
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pterocaulous |
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architecture |
plant |
Having alate (winged) stems. |
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megaphyllous |
= macrophyllous (not recommended) |
architecture |
plant |
Bearing megaphylls. |
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monocarpic |
= hapaxanthic |
reproduction |
plant |
Normally reproducing sexually only once, then promptly senescent. |
