Category: A
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Acicula, acicle
A needle-like prickle.
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Achlamydeous
Of flowers, without calyx or corolla. Without floral envelopes.
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Achilary
Without a lip [obscure term].
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Achenetum
An aggregation of achenes [obscure term].
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Achene
A small dry thin-walled fruit, not splitting when ripe, and containing a single seed. Small, dry indehiscent one-seeded fruit with tight, thin outer wall. A small dry fruit containing a single seed (example: sunflower seed). A dry, one-seeded fruit, without a predictable opening and formed from a single carpel, usually one of many, like an…
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Acetabuliform
Shaped like a shallow cup, saucershaped [unusual term].
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Acervulus (plural acervuli)
In chamaedoroid palms, a group of flowers borne in a line; A small asexual fruiting body that erupts through the epidermis of host plants parasitised by mitosporic fungi of the form order Melanconiales.
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Acerose
Needle-shaped, thin-cylindrical with a sharp point; solid/3-dimensional shape, unlike.
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Acerate
Acicular, needle-shaped [unusual term].
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Acephalous
‘Without a head’, used for an ovary without a stigma; Also in general, when a head-like structure would be expected but is not present.