Glossary

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  • Zoophilous

    Adapted for pollination by animals.  

  • Zoochory

    Distribution by animal vector, either external on the coat or legs (ectozoochory) or internal, through the gut (endozoochory).  

  • Zonoaperturate

    (In pollen) grain with apertures in equatorial zone: may be zonocolpate, zonocolporate, zono- (or zona-)sulcate or zonoporate.  

  • Zonation

    The sequence of vegetation types in three dimensions (not in time); for example, bands of vegetation at different altitudes of a mountain in response to differences in temperature and rainfall, or in a mangrove forest owing to various salinity levels.  

  • Zig-zag

    With short bends from side to side.  

  • Xylopodium

    Hard, woody tuberous thickening of the root.  

  • Xylocarp

    Hard woody fruit; fruit enclosed in hard woody capsule.  

  • Xylem

    The woody element of the vascular bundle, its basic function is to transport water and some nutrients through the plant.  

  • Xylar

    Relating to the xylem, the wood elements of the vascular bundle.  

  • Xerophilous, xerophytic

    Adapted to growing and reproducing in areas with low water availability.  

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