Category: A

  • Acicula, acicle

    Acicula, acicle

    A needle-like prickle.  

  • Achlamydeous

    Of flowers, without calyx or corolla. Without floral envelopes.  

  • Achilary

    Without a lip [obscure term].  

  • Achenetum

    An aggregation of achenes [obscure term].  

  • 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…

  • Acetabuliform

    Shaped like a shallow cup, saucershaped [unusual term].  

  • 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.  

  • Acerose

    Acerose

    Needle-shaped, thin-cylindrical with a sharp point; solid/3-dimensional shape, unlike.  

  • Acerate

    Acicular, needle-shaped [unusual term].  

  • 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.