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The plant on which a parasite grows, and from which the parasite derives its food. Any animal that receives a transplanted graft. By definition a stranger is strange, and since this strangeness may evoke fear or delight, a stranger may be seen as either an enemy or a friend. Accordingly, the Indo-European word that meant…

When placed after a taxon name indicates the use of that name in horticulture.  

Shaped like the shoe of a horse, i.e. like the letter “U” with the ends curved inwards.  

Of this year’s growth [unusual term].  

With a horn, a tapering 3-dimensional structure resembling an elongated cone but often curved.  

A slender process with a curved or bent part at the tip. A surgical instrument with a bent end used for holding structures apart in operations. A surgical instrument with a bent or curved tip, used to hold, lift, or retract tissue at operation.  

3-dimensional shape with the sides and apex curved inwards. The curing or folded, petal-like structures interior to the petals and exterior to the stamens in milkweed flowers (Asclepias species); because most milkweeds have reflexed petals, the hoods are typically the most prominent feature of the flowers.  

Streaks or blotches of colour leading to the glands or nectaries secreting the nectar. A set of coloured streaks and/or blotches on the perianth of a flower that point to the nectary.