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(In nomenclature) name or epithet whose use is continued.  

(Of flowers) upside down, or seemingly so. Inverted because of a 180 degrees twist in a petiole or pedicel. (Of fruit body) Lying flat, crus-tlike on substrate with hymenium facing outward, lacking a stem or well-defined cap. Often in reference to flowers of Orchidaceae in which the lip is lowermost, achieved by twisting or bending…

With the scent or consistency of resin. Containing resin.  

Elastic, sticky threads apparent upon breaking a leaf or petiole and pulled between the broken parts.  

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

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…

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.  

(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.  

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