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  • Scientific name

    (In nomenclature) (for species) bionomial, name composed of the genus name followed by a specific epithet, as opposed to a vernacular or common name. Other scientific names are those for families, orders, classes, and various other taxonomic groups. The internationally recognized Latin name of a plant which often gives a potted desenption of the plant…

  • Sciaphyte

    Adapted to life in shade; the more common spelling is sciophyte.  

  • Schizocarpic, schizocarpous

    Adjective of schizocarp.  

  • Schizocarp

    Schizocarp

    Fruit splitting into its carpellary constituents or one seeded portions (i.e. mericarps). A dry, many-seeded fruit that splits when ripe into one-seeded parts (mericarps).  

  • Scented

    Scented

    Perfumed, smelling sweetly. With a strong pleasant smell.  

  • Scarlet

    (Colour) vivid red with a touch of yellow.  

  • Scarious

    Thin and dry, not green; also spelled scariose. Thin, dry, and no longer green (if formerly green). Dry, meager, membranous, non-green and translucent. Dry and papery, often translucent.  

  • Scapose

    With a scape, bearing a scape; said of herbs that have a basal rosette and an inflorescence rising from the centre of the rosette on a leafless stalk. A leafless, flower-bearing peduncle arising directly from the ground. Bearing a flower or inflorescence on a leafless flowering stem.  

  • Scapigerous

    Bearing a scape.  

  • Scapiform

    Resembling a scape, a stem without leaves with flower(s) at the top.  

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