Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Pleurid
Water gland, usually occurring in pairs on the column of some orchid flowers.
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Plesiomorphy, plesiomorphic
(Of a character) ancestral, primitive.
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Pleonanthic
(Of a stem) where flowering is not followed by death (specialist term used in Palmae).
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Pleomorphic
With many forms; (Of hybrids) with two or more distinct variants. The possession of multiple autonomous morphologies or reproductive units within a biological entity’s developmental cycle.
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Pleiomerous
With more whorls than the normal number.
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Pleiochasium
(Of inflorescence) where each main axis of a cyme produces more than two branches.
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Pleiocarpic
Flowering and fruiting more than once in its lifetime.
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Plectostele
(In Lycopodium) protostele which in tranverse section appears as alternating bands of xylem and phloem.
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Pleated
With parallel folds, folded like a fan along many ribs. When young, as in a leaf, folded several times along the length.
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Plant taxonomy
The science whose practitioners (find), describe, classify, identify and name plants.
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