Glossary

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  • Inaperturate

    (Of pollen) without an opening or aperture.  

  • Inaequilateral

    With the two sides unequal.  

  • Implexed

    (Of hairs) entangled, which is preferred.  

  • Impervious

    Impassable to fluid.  

  • Imperfect

    (Of flowers) with one of the usual parts (e.g. stamens) absent. Having stamens or pistils but not both. Describes a flower having stamens or pistils, but not both.  

  • Imparipinnate

    Imparipinnate

    Unevenly or oddpinnate, i.e. pinnate with a single terminal leaflet. With a terminal leaflet. Pinnate, with a single leaflet at the apex of the common petiole. Oddly pinnate, a pinnate leaf with a single terminal leaflet. Leaf divided in several leaflets with an unequal number.  

  • Immersed

    Sunk completely into.  

  • Imbricate-quincuncial

    (In aestivation) a type of imbricate aestivation, with two pieces completely external, two completely internal, and one with one margin overlapping and one margin overlapped.  

  • Imbricate

    Overlapping like tiles; (In aestivation) with the parts of a flower overlapping like tiles. Closely packed and overlapping.  

  • Illegitimate

    (In nomenclature) a name or epithet that is validly published but does not conform to article 6.4 of the Code. Born to parents who are not married to each other. Now-seldom-used term for a child whose parents have not been legally married. In some states, illegitimate children have no inheritance rights from their fathers; and…

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