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Botanical Glossary
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Following is a selection of botanical names and their meanings.

For a full listing of botanical names and their meanings, a search by any of the search engines will usually provided you with the answer. In fact there are many online dictionaries, with some that are specific to your field of interest.
B
Bifoliolate • Having two leaflets.
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C
Calyx • The outer whorl of sepals of a flower.
Corolla • the petals of a flower collectively.
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F
Fibrils • small slender fibers or filaments.
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G
Glabrous • Having a smooth surface; hairless.
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H
Hirsute
• covered with hair; hairy. (Botany usage) means covered with stiff or coarse hairs.
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I
Inflorescence • Is the arrangement of flowers on a stem or axis, as in a spike or umbel.
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L
Lanceolate
• Shaped like the blade of a lance, tapering from a rounded base to an apex.
Lignotuber
• Woody tuber/root/tuberous rootstock that stores water.
Linear
• Long and narrow with more or less parallel edges.
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M
Mucronate • Pointed, abruptly terminated by a sharp spine.
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P
Perianth
• (Botany usage) the calyx and corolla of a flower, especially where the two are similar.
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R
Racemes
• An inflorescence where series of lateral flowers is arranged along a single stem. Each flower has it own stem. Youngest flower being at the apex.
Revolute
• Rolled backward from the tip or margins to the under-surface, such as found in a revolute leaf.
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S
Sepal
• (Botany) the separate, usually green parts of the outer whorl of non-fertile parts surrounding the fertile organs of a flower, that form the calyx of a flower.
Striate • With parallel lines or grooves.
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T
Trifoliolate
• Having three leaves or leaflets.
Tomentose
• (Botany usage) covered with matted woolly hairs; a tomentose leaf.
 
 
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