Tamarind monograph.pdf - Crops for the Future

Glossary
acuminate - the shape of a tip or base of a leaf or perianth segment
where the part tapers gradually and often in a concave
manner.
adnate - joined to or attached to: applied to unlike organs, e.g.
stamens adnate to perianth.
albumen - Starchy and other nutritive material in a seed, stored as
endosperm inside the embryo sac, or as perisperm in the
surrounding nucellar cells; any deposit of nutritive
material accompanying the embryo.
androecium - all the male reproductive organs of a flower; the stamens.
cf. gynoecium.
angiosperm - a plant producing seed enclosed in an ovary. A flowering
plant.
annual - a plant that completes its life cycle from germination to
death within one year.
anterior - front; on the front side; away from the axis.
anther - the pollen-bearing (terminal) part of the male organs
(stamen), borne at the top of a stalk (filament).
anthesis - flowering; strictly, the time of expansion of a flower when
pollination takes place, but often used to designate the
flowering period; the act of flowering.
apex - the tip of an organ, the growing point.
apical - pertaining to the apex.
aril (arillus) - a fleshy or sometimes hairy appendage or outer covering of
a seed, growing out from the hilium or funiculus.
arillate - provided with an aril.
auricle (adj. auriculate) - small ear-like projections at the base of a
leaf or leaf-blade or bract.
axil - the upper angle formed by the union of a leaf with the
stem.
axillary - pertaining to the organs in the axil, e.g. buds, flowers or
inflorescence.
axis - the main or central stem of a herbaceous plant or of an
inflorescence.
basal - borne on or near the base.
bifid - forked; having a deep fissure near the centre.
bilabiate - two-lipped.
bipinnate - (of leaves) a pinnate leaf with primary leaflets themselves
divided in a pinnate manner; cf pinnate.
biseriate - in two rows.
bisexual - having both sexes present and functional in the one flower.
blade - the flattened part of a leaf; the lamina.
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