Category: P
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Poricidal
Opening by pores.
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Pore
Small hole, usually used of anthers (when these open by an apical hole) or of the outer wall of pollen grains. A small opening, particularly in the skin. A small opening, particularly in the skin. Sweat glands secrete through one kind of pore, and hairs emerge from another. Pores in the tongue have a role…
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Porcellanous
Smooth, shiny, semi-transparent, white and thin, i.e. like porcelain.
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Porate
Pollen grain with one or more pores (i.e. pori); (Of anthers) opening by small hole(s) or pore(s).
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Porandrous
With anthers opening by pores [unusual term].
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Population
All individuals of a particular species in a given area, in theory all of these can interbreed. All of the output of a process over a defined time period; or a given type of product in the same size and similar containers, and of the same style of pack. The number of people in a…
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Pome
(In Rosaceae) indehiscent simple fruit in which the receptacle or hypanthium has enlarged to enclose the ripened ovary. Ovary inferior, surrounded by fleshy tissue, usually interpreted as a hypanthium, as in the apple or pear. A fleshy fruit having several seeds (as an apple). The fleshy but firm fruit of an Apple or Pear, etc,…
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Polytomous
Divided into more than three parts or branches [unusual term].
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Polytelic
(Of inflorescences) where branches do not end in a flower.
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Polystichous
With leaves arranged in several rows.