Tamarind monograph.pdf - Crops for the Future
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inflorescence - <strong>the</strong> flowering part of a plant and especially <strong>the</strong> mode of its<br />
arrangement.<br />
lateral - side shoot, bud etc.<br />
mesocarp - <strong>the</strong> fleshy middle portion of <strong>the</strong> wall of a succulent fruit<br />
between <strong>the</strong> skin and <strong>the</strong> stony layer.<br />
monophyletic - descended from a single ancestral line, see also:<br />
polyphyletic.<br />
mucronate - terminated abruptly by a distinct and obvious spur or spiny<br />
tip.<br />
naturalised - to cause a plant to become established and grow<br />
undisturbed as if native.<br />
nectar - sweet secretion of glands in many kinds of flower.<br />
nectiferous - producing nectar.<br />
nodose - knobbly, knotty.<br />
oblique - slanting, unequal sided.<br />
obovate - inverted ovate; egg-shaped, with <strong>the</strong> broadest part above.<br />
orbicular - circular.<br />
ovary inferior - with <strong>the</strong> flower-parts growing from above <strong>the</strong> ovary.<br />
ovary superior - with <strong>the</strong> flower-parts growing from below <strong>the</strong> ovary.<br />
ovate - egg-shaped, with <strong>the</strong> broader end at <strong>the</strong> base.<br />
ovule - <strong>the</strong> body which after fertilisation becomes <strong>the</strong> seed.<br />
panicle - a loose irregularly compound inflorescence with<br />
pedicellate flowers.<br />
panicled - borne in a panicle.<br />
paripinnate - a pinnate (compound) leaf with all leaflets in pairs.<br />
pedicel - a tiny stalk; <strong>the</strong> support of a single flower.<br />
pendulous - more or less hanging or declined.<br />
perianth - <strong>the</strong> floral envelope consisting of <strong>the</strong> calyx and corolla.<br />
perigynous - adnate to <strong>the</strong> perianth, and <strong>the</strong>re<strong>for</strong>e around <strong>the</strong> ovary and<br />
not at its base.<br />
petal - a division of <strong>the</strong> corolla; one of a circle of modified leaves<br />
immediately outside <strong>the</strong> reproductive organs, usually<br />
brightly coloured.<br />
petiole - <strong>the</strong> stalk of a leaf that attaches it to <strong>the</strong> stem.<br />
phenotype - <strong>the</strong> morphological, physiological, behavioural, and o<strong>the</strong>r<br />
outwardly recognisable adaptations of an organism that<br />
develop through <strong>the</strong> interaction of genes and environment.<br />
pinnate - a compound leaf consisting of several leaflets arranged on<br />
each side of a common petiole.<br />
polyphyletic - having members that originated independently, from more<br />
than one evolutionary line.<br />
propagate - to produce new plants, ei<strong>the</strong>r by vegetative means<br />
involving <strong>the</strong> rooting or grafting of pieces of a plant, or by<br />
sowing seeds.<br />
protogynous - referring to a flower where <strong>the</strong> shedding of <strong>the</strong> pollen<br />
occurs after <strong>the</strong> stigma has ceased to be receptive.<br />
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