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Dendrology

Allergenic:  Causing an allergic reaction and nasal/ bronchial irritation.  This is usually caused by pollen and mold spores.

Anemophilous:  Wind Pollination

Angiosperm:  Flowering plants.  ENCLOSED SEED 

Autecology:  Ecology of an individual plant 

Autogamy:  Self-fertilization.

Bark:  The outer layer of a woody stem.  All tissues from the vascular cambium outward.

Bisexual:  Having both sex organs in the same flower.

Campanulate:  Bell shapped.  Red Oak.

Community:  All or the organisms inhabiting a common environment and interacting with one another.

Compound Leaf:  Composed of several parts.  compound leaf of leaflets.

Cone:  An aggregation of sporangia-bearing structures at the tip of a stem.

Conifer:  Gymnosperms bearing cones 

Cork:  Outer bark

DBH:  Diameter at Breast height.  4 1/2 ft from the ground

Deciduous:  Leaves falling in the fall plants

Dicot:Having two cotyledons

Endosperm:  The food reserve outside the embryo within a seed.

Evergreen:  Remaining green throughout the year

Fasicle:  A cluster or a bundle

Flora:  The kind of plants which occupy a region

Fruit:  The seed bearing organ of a flowering plant.

Genotype:  Genetic constitution of an individual.

Gymnosperm:  Seed plants bearing naked seeds

Leaf:  Primary lateral appendage of a stem usually flattened.

Leaflet:  A division of a compound leaf

Leaf scar:  A scar left on a twig when the leaf drops

Legume:  A dry fruit from a sngle carpel

Lobed:  Leaf cut from a certain distance from the margin to the midrib

Monocot:  Having only one cotyledon 

Node:  The place on a twig that bears one or more leaves

Nut:  An indehiscent, dry fruit.  usually 1 seed with a hard pericarp and a husk.

Pollen:  An immature stage of the male gametophyte.

Pollination:  Transfer of pollen from pollen sac to ovule

Seed:  A ripened ovule

Stem:  Main aerial axis of a plant

Thorn:  A sharp, modified branch inthe axil of a leaf or terminating the twig.

Twig:  The last year's growth of a woody stem.

Vein:  Strand of vascular tissue in a leaf or other laminar structure

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Latin Terms and Definitions
 
  1. Acer:  Sharp
  2. alba:  White
  3. bicolor:  Two colors
  4. borealis:  North
  5. florida:  Flowering
  6. nigra:  Black
  7. Occidentalis Western
  8. opaca:  not glossy
  9. phellos Corky
  10. Prunus:  Plum
  11. radicans:  with rooting stems
  12. rubra:  Red
  13. serotina:  late season
  14. stellata:  starlike
  15. toxicondendron:  Poison tree
  16. tulipifera:  Tulip bearing
  17. virginiana:  of Virginia.

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