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Filament
A stalk that bears an anther, usually distinct from the connective. The stalk of a stamen, that is, the part that supports the anther. The stalk of a stamen below the point of attachment to the anther. The stalk like part of the stamen that supports the anther. The slender portion of a stamen supporting…
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Fil
(Abbreviation in author citation) from the Latin filius meaning ‘son’.
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Fig
The fruit (really a syconium) of Ficus species; also used to indicate a whole plant of Ficus, as in fig-tree. That fresh figs are pear-shaped is probably little known in North America, where most people are familiar only with the dried, scrunched-up version of the fruit. Usually imported from the Mediterranean, the fig takes its…
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Fide
From the Latin ‘with faith’, used when quoting another person’s observation; according to.
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Fiddlehead
(In ferns) the coiled immature leaf with apex at the centre, usually of an emerging fern leaf.
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Fibro-vascular veins
(In anatomy) mixed vessels and fibres.
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Fibrillose (stringy)
With many fine fibres. Composed of parallel fibers, especially of the cap in some species of mushrooms. (Of surface of cap or stem) Having visible fibrils, often differently colored than the surface below them.
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Fibrillate
With fibres; With a lined appearance. To undergo rapid irregular uncontrolled contractions, or make the heart or muscles undergo this type of contraction.
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Fibre
Lignified elongated cells or groups of cells in wood other than vessel or parenchyma elements; Wood elements in general. A structure in the body shaped like a thread.
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Fibonacci series
A mathematical series of numbers first formulated by Indian scientists but popularised by Leonardo ‘Fibonacci’ of Pisa in 1202. Each number in the series is formed by adding up the previous two: 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21…. Spiral leaf arrangements, the spiral packing of flowers in large heads, the spiral arrangement of cone…
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