Category: T

(Of a plant or organ) coiling around a structure or another plant. Coiling around plants or objects as a means of support. Climbing by coiling around something. A stem of a vine that climbs by winding itself around a support. Gaining height by growing in a spiral manner around a support that is more or…

Eglandular hairs found on achenes of Compositae/Asteraceae, each hair composed of two parallel cells, also called duplex hairs or Zwillingshaare in German.  

(Of a climber) supporting itself by the main or lateral stems coiling around a structure or another plant. A climber, which climbs by spirally coiling stems.  

A small branch or shoot; More precisely, the current year’s shoot. Any of the smallest branches of a tree or shrub, though only used for those that are thin and weak.    

Compact clump of grasses or grass-like plants.  

Detachable vegetative buds; A scaly sucker or shoot from the ground (as in Asparagus); Resting bud, bud resting during adverse season. A swollen scaly offshoot of a rhizome.  

Becoming turgid or inflated.  

Top-shaped, obconical and narrowed towards the point. Top-shaped, that is, more or less in an inverted cone. Shaped like a cone, scroll, or spiral. Having a shape like a spiral or an inverted cone. Referring to any of the three bones found on the walls of the nasal passages of mammals. Coil-like structures, one on…

A bulb covered with concentric enveloping coats (as in an onion).