Glossary

Category: D

  • Dialycarpous

    Bearing fruit composed of separate carpels [unusual term].  

  • Diagonal

    At an angle.  

  • Diadelphous

    Diadelphous

    In two bundles (usually said of stamens, particularly in Leguminosae/Fabaceae), often 9 + 1, but can also be 5 + 5. Said of stamens when united in two sets by their filaments.  

  • Dextrorse

    Dextrorse

    In a spiral from left to right (as seen from the side or from above). Turned to the right.  

  • Development

    Gradual growth of organ or plant. Maturation. The process of growing, or of becoming larger and stronger, or more complex. Something which happens and causes a change in a situation. Gradual change from a simple to a more complex level; physical, mental, and emotional changes an individual organism undergoes from its earliest form through its…

  • Determinate

    (Of shoot) with finite growth, either ending in an inflorescence or with the growing tip aborting.  

  • Desert

    Desert

    Habitat in which rain only comes very occasionally, with hardly any visible vegetation.  

  • Description

    A statement of the characters and measurements of a taxon. In research, the perception, naming, organizing, and verbally portraying a situation to highlight its important features, to put those features in context, and to show the interrelations among them.  

  • Descending

    Gradually going downwards. Bent gradually downward.  

  • Derived from

    Evolved from and slightly different to another taxon or another structure. Evolved from and somewhat different from one or the other taxon.