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saprophytic |
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nutrition |
plant |
Heterotrophic and obtaining essential nourishment directly from the decomposing remains of other organisms. |
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prop-rooted |
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architecture |
plant |
Bearing and buttressed by prop roots. |
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rhizomatous |
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architecture |
plant |
Having rhizomes. |
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fruticose |
< shrubby; >< bushy |
habit |
plant |
Having the character of a frutex (shrub). See also arboreous, arborescent, frutescent, subshrubby, suffrutescent, suffruticose, tree-like, woody-clumping. |
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annual 2 |
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nominative |
plant |
Of annual duration. |
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knee-rooted |
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architecture |
plant |
Having knee roots. |
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sclerocaulous |
= hard-stemmed |
texture |
plant |
Having hard, relatively dry, but essentially herbaceous main stems that contain a significant proportion of sclerotic tissue or fibers. |
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sarcocaulous |
= fleshy-stemmed |
texture |
plant |
Having main stems that are sarcous (carnose, fleshy). |
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hemiepiphytic |
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habit |
plant |
Partially epiphytic; rooted in the ground but with stems growing upon and supported mainly by other plants. |
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winter annual |
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nominative |
plant |
Annual, germinating in autumn, overwintering in a vegetative state (usually as a rosette aboveground), reproducing sexually from early spring through summer, and dying promptly thereafter. See also summer annual. |
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hemiparasitic |
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nutrition |
plant |
Partially parasitic; facultatively heterotrophic to a limited degree and capable of obtaining a portion of its essential nourishment directly from other living organisms, to which no reciprocal benefit accrues. |
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sarmentose |
= runnering, stoloniferous |
architecture |
plant |
Producing stolons (runners), by means of which it propagates vegetatively. |
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stilt-rooted |
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architecture |
plant |
Bearing and partly supported by stilt roots. |
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gigantic |
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size |
plant |
Strongly enlarged; unusually or unexpectedly very large throughout. |
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ascidiate 2 |
= pitcher-leaved |
architecture |
plant |
Bearing ascidiate (pitcher-bladed) leaves; esp. in Nepenthaceae, Sarraceniaceae. |
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many-stemmed |
= multicipital |
architecture |
plant |
Having many, more or less equal, principal stems arising at substrate level from a caudex or root crown. |
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herb |
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nominative |
plant |
Annual, biennial, or perennial with no woody (lignified) tissue in any part of the shoot; when persisting over more than one growing season, the parts of the shoot dying back seasonally. |
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hapaxanthic |
= monocarpic |
reproduction |
plant |
Normally reproducing sexually only once, then promptly senescent. |
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radicate |
= rooted |
architecture |
plant |
Having one or more roots. |
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woody clump |
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nominative |
plant |
An aggregate of woody main stems that arise from belowground organs derived from a single progenitor; the members of a clump are individually tree- or shrub-like and sometimes become physically separate over time. See also bush, frutex, shrub, subshrub, suffrutex, tree, undershrub. |
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carnivorous |
> insectivorous |
nutrition |
plant |
Capturing animals (usually insects), digesting their tissues by means of exoenzymes secreted by specialized cells or tissues, and assimilating the digested substances as nourishment, especially for nitrogen. |
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fibrous-rooted |
< diffuse-rooted |
architecture |
plant |
Diffuse-rooted with fibrous roots. See also taprooted. |
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herbaceous 1 |
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habit |
plant |
Having no significant degree of secondary growth in any part of the shoot, which thus does not develop woody (lignified) tissue. |
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aquatic |
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habit |
plant |
Growing in water. |
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woody-clumping |
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habit |
plant |
Having or developing the character of a woody clump. See also arboreous, arborescent, bushy, frutescent, fruticose, shrubby, subshrubby, suffrutescent, suffruticose, tree-like. |
