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  • Porandrous

    With anthers opening by pores [unusual term].  

  • Population

    All individuals of a particular species in a given area, in theory all of these can interbreed. All of the output of a process over a defined time period; or a given type of product in the same size and similar containers, and of the same style of pack. The number of people in a…

  • Pome

    Pome

    (In Rosaceae) indehiscent simple fruit in which the receptacle or hypanthium has enlarged to enclose the ripened ovary. Ovary inferior, surrounded by fleshy tissue, usually interpreted as a hypanthium, as in the apple or pear. A fleshy fruit having several seeds (as an apple). The fleshy but firm fruit of an Apple or Pear, etc,…

  • Polytrichous

    With many hairs, densely hairy [unusual term].    

  • Polytomous

    Divided into more than three parts or branches [unusual term].  

  • Polytelic

    (Of inflorescences) where branches do not end in a flower.  

  • Polystichous

    With leaves arranged in several rows.  

  • Polystemonous

    With stamens in larger numbers than other flower parts.    

  • Polysepalous

    With many sepals; The opposite of gamosepalous.  

  • Polyploid

    With more than twice the normal haploid set of chromosomes. An organism with more than two chromosome sets in its vegetative cells. More than two sets of chromosomes in one cell. Two sets would be diploid; three sets, triploid, four sets, tetraploid, etc. Referring to a cell where there are more than two copies of…

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