Glossary

Category: G

  • Geminate

    In pairs.  

  • Geitonogamy

    Where the flowers of a plant are fertilised by pollen from another flower on the same plant.  

  • Gamosepalous

    Gamosepalous

    With joined sepals.  

  • Gamophyllous

    Gamophyllous

    With leaves (or less correctly, perianth segments) connate by their edges.  

  • Gamopetalous

    Gamopetalous

    With joined petals.  

  • Galled

    With galls, affected by a gall-forming organism.  

  • Gall

    A monstrous growth of part of the plant resulting from puncture by a parasitic insect, bacteria, fungi or eelworm mites; often containing insect larva(e) and then often characteristic in shape according to the insect and the plant species involved. A swelling on a plant, such as those resulting when an insect or mite lays eggs…

  • Galeate

    Galeate

    Hollow and domed. Any part of the body shaped like a helmet, especially the loose band of tissue in the scalp. A type of bandage wrapped round the head.  

  • Galbule, galbulus

    (In the fruit of Juniperus, Ephedra or Cupressus) a modified cone that becomes fleshy and berry-like as it matures. A cone of a conifer that becomes fleshy when it matures as in Ephedraceae and Cupressaceae.  

  • Gland

    A cell or group of cells that makes and gives off a liquid substance. A secretory area or mass on the surface, either embedded or ending a hair. An organ that produces and releases one or more substances for use in the body. Some glands produce fluids that affect tissues or organs. Others produce hormones…