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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