Category: R

  • Reproductive

    (Of parts) concerned in reproduction, in sexual increase.  

  • Reproduction

    Increase; Asexually, from one individual; Sexually, from two individuals. A curricular movement that emphasizes the need to mirror society’s values in the public schools. The process of making new living beings by existing ones, e.g. producing children or derived other descendants. Process by which living organisms give rise to offspring; it may be asexual, involving…

  • Replum

    A frame-like placenta from which the valves fall away in dehiscence (e.g. the persistent sutures of the craspedium in Mimosa); (In Cruciferae/Brassicaceae) partition between the locules of fruits.  

  • Replicate

    (Of leaf bud) with the leaf margin is folded back in bud (as in Galanthus). To repeat. (Of a cell) to make a copy of itself.  

  • Repand

    When the margin is uneven or wavy, with shallow undulations not so deep as for sinuate margins. Wavy-margined.  

  • Reophyte

    Plant adapted to fast-flowing water.  

  • Reniform

    Reniform

    Kidney-shaped in outline. Bean-shaped, with the attachment in the indentation, the width greater than the extent, the apex rounded.  

  • Remote-tubular

    Germination type in which the shoot apex is carried out of the seed in the elongated sheath of the cotyledon (specialist term used in Palmae).  

  • Remote-ligular

    Germination type in which the shoot apex is carried out of the seed in the elongated ligule of the cotyledon (specialist term used in Palmae.  

  • Relict species

    Species which were formerly widespread but now occupy only small areas.