Category: E
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Emergent
Coming out of, arising from. With part of the plant’s foliage projecting above the water surface.
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Emergences
Multicellular projections from a surface. Awakening from the effects of an anesthetic drug (i.e., from sedation or hypnosis).
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Emend
From the latin emendavit meaning ‘he changed it’; usually referring to the re-delimitation of a taxon by an author whose name follows.
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Embryotega (plural embryotegia)
A disc-like callus near the hilum of a seed that detaches during germination.
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Embryo
The rudimentary plant contained in the seed, consisting of cotyledon(s), radicle and plumule. The prenatal stage of mammalian development characterized by rapid morphological changes and the differentiation of basic structures. The rudimentary plantlet in the seed. An undeveloped plant still inside the seed. The fertilized egg from the moment of conception through the 8th week…
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Emargination
Notch.
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Emarginate
(Of apices) with a distinct sharp notch. With a shallow notch at the apex. Notched at the apex. (Of gills) Similar to adnexed but not going very far up the stem, making a tiny empty triangular space.
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Elongating
Lengthening.
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Elongate(d)
Stretched, long.
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Elodeoid
Growth form in aquatic plants, rooted at the bottom with long shoots, totally submerged.