rootless |
= eradicate |
architecture |
plant |
Lacking a root. |
ephemeral |
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duration |
plant |
Annual with a very short life span; germinating, growing, reproducing, and dying within a brief period of favorable conditions, the entire cycle being completed within a few weeks. |
autotrophic |
|
nutrition |
plant |
Independent of other organisms for its nourishment, itself synthesizing all essential substances not directly available from the non-living environment. |
biennial 2 |
|
nominative |
plant |
Of biennial duration. |
megaphyllous |
= macrophyllous (not recommended) |
architecture |
plant |
Bearing megaphylls. |
fibrous-rooted |
< diffuse-rooted |
architecture |
plant |
Diffuse-rooted with fibrous roots. See also taprooted. |
monocarpic |
= hapaxanthic |
reproduction |
plant |
Normally reproducing sexually only once, then promptly senescent. |
liana |
< vine |
nominative |
plant |
Perennial with elongate ligneous stems that are flexible at least initially and that climb upon trees and shrubs. |
aquatic |
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habit |
plant |
Growing in water. |
basicauliramous |
|
architecture |
plant |
Having the stem(s) branching at or near the base. See also basiramous. |
dwarfed |
|
size |
plant |
Strongly reduced; unusually or unexpectedly very small throughout. |
pachycaulous |
|
architecture |
plant |
Having thick, more or less succulent stems. |
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. |
terrestrial |
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habit |
plant |
Growing upon the ground, usually rooted in it. |
diffuse-rooted |
> fibrous-rooted |
architecture |
plant |
Having a dense system of adventitious, slender roots that arise from the base of the main stem and functionally replace an evanescent primary root. See also taprooted. |
lianous |
< viny |
habit |
plant |
Having elongate, ligneous stems that are flexible at least initially and that climb upon trees and shrubs. |
bush |
< frutex, shrub |
nominative |
plant |
A short shrub that branches from ground level. See also subshrub (suffrutex, undershrub), tree, woody clump. |
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. |
arboreous |
< tree-form |
habit |
plant |
Having the character of a tree. See also arborescent, bushy, frutescent, fruticose, subshrubby, suffrutescent, suffruticose, woody-clumping. |
bushy |
< shrubby; >< frutescent, fruticose |
habit |
plant |
Having or developing the character of a bush. See also arboreous, arborescent, subshrubby, suffrutescent, suffruticose, tree-like, woody-clumping. |
weeping |
|
architecture |
plant |
Having elongate, flexible, pendent branches. |
arborescent |
< tree-form |
habit |
plant |
Developing the character of a tree. See also arboreous, bushy, frutescent, fruticose, subshrubby, suffrutescent, suffruticose, woody-clumping. |
soboliferous |
|
architecture |
plant |
Having several, loosely clumped, principal stems that arise from a common underground stem system, each distinct above ground level. |
undershrub |
= subshrub, suffrutex |
nominative |
plant |
Of shrub-like form but with only the base woody, bearing herbaceous branches that die back at the end of each growing season. See also bush, frutex, shrub, tree, woody clump. |
evergreen |
|
habit |
plant |
Perennial and bearing some viable leaves at all times during the yearly cycle. |