Category: S
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Secretolytic
A substance that leads to a better solubilisation of mucus and favours its discharge.
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Secondary metabolites
Chemical substances of plants (usually of low molecular weight) with a high structural diversity that are used as defence or signal compounds by the plants producing them. Several secondary metabolites have a restricted occurrence in the plant kingdom. In contrast, primary metabolites are essential and present in all plants.
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Scar tissue
New cell growth following injury. Fibrous tissue which forms a scar.
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Symmetrical flower
One whose parts are equal in number, each kind with the other, or in multiples.
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Suspended
Hanging down.
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Strobile
A multiple, cone-shaped fruit.
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Strict
Straight. Severe, which must not be changed.
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Solarly
With the sun ;—solarly voluble, turning daily to keep face to the sun.
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Seta
A bristle or stiff hair.
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Septa
Partitions.