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Opercule, operculum
A lid or cover, as in the flower of Eucalyptus or in a circumscissile fruit.
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Operculate
With a lid. Having a lid or plate-like opening at the top of the ascus, through which the spores are shot.
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Op. cit
From the Latin opere citato, ‘in the work cited before’.
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Ontogeny
Development of an individual through various stages. Embryonic development of an individual. The history of the development of an individual organism. Development of an organism from fertilized egg through developmental and growth stages to maturity. The history of the development of an individual from the fertilized egg to maturity.
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One-internode
(Of orchids) pseudobulbs appearing to have only a single swollen internode, the other internodes, which are highly compressed, are more distal and have one or more leaves and inflorescences.
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Ombrophyte
Adapted to living in areas of very high rainfall [obscure term].
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Olive
(Colour) dark yellow-green. Before the word olive was adopted from French in the thirteenth century, the olive was known in England as the eleberge, literally meaning oil-berry. For the ancient Greeks, the olive, which they called elaia, was likewise a kind of oilberry, so much so that they derived their word for oil from its…
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Olivaceous
(Colour) olive-green (which is preferred).
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Oligotrophic
(Of substrate) poor in minerals.
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Oligostemonous
With few stamens [very obscure term].
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