plant organ
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1. a functional and structural unit of a plant or fungus (noun.plant)
| hyponym | : | septum, |
| definition | : | a partition or wall especially in an ovary (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | honey gland, nectary, |
| definition | : | a gland (often a protuberance or depression) that secretes nectar (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | archegonium, |
| definition | : | a female sex organ occurring in mosses, ferns, and most gymnosperms (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | calyx tube, floral cup, hypanthium, |
| definition | : | the cuplike or ringlike or tubular structure of a flower which bears the sepals and stamens and calyx (as in Rosaceae) (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | cup, |
| definition | : | cup-shaped plant organ (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | hypobasidium, |
| definition | : | special cell constituting the base of the basidium in various fungi especially of the order Tremellales (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | galea, |
| definition | : | an organ shaped like a helmet; usually a vaulted and enlarged petal as in Aconitum (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | gill, lamella, |
| definition | : | any of the radiating leaflike spore-producing structures on the underside of the cap of a mushroom or similar fungus (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | fruiting body, |
| definition | : | an organ specialized for producing spores (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | root, |
| definition | : | (botany) the usually underground organ that lacks buds or leaves or nodes; absorbs water and mineral salts; usually it anchors the plant to the ground (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | root cap, |
| definition | : | thimble-shaped mass of cells covering and protecting the growing tip of a root (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | root hair, |
| definition | : | thin hairlike outgrowth of an epidermal cell just behind the tip; absorbs nutrients from the soil (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | offset, runner, stolon, |
| definition | : | a horizontal branch from the base of plant that produces new plants from buds at its tips (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | stalk, stem, |
| definition | : | a slender or elongated structure that supports a plant or fungus or a plant part or plant organ (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | capitulum, head, |
| definition | : | a dense cluster of flowers or foliage (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | foliage, leaf, leafage, |
| definition | : | the main organ of photosynthesis and transpiration in higher plants (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | sprout, |
| definition | : | any new growth of a plant such as a new branch or a bud (noun.plant) |
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