plant process
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1. a natural projection or outgrowth from a plant body or organ (noun.plant)
| hypernym | : | appendage, outgrowth, process, |
| definition | : | a natural prolongation or projection from a part of an organism either animal or plant (noun.body) |
| hyponym | : | podetium, |
| definition | : | an organ or body resembling a stalk; especially the outgrowth of the thallus of certain lichens on which the ascocarp is borne (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | peristome, |
| definition | : | (botany) fringe of toothlike appendages surrounding the mouth of a moss capsule (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | haustorium, |
| definition | : | a root-like attachment in parasitic plants that penetrates and obtains food from the host (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | apophysis, |
| definition | : | (botany) a natural swelling or enlargement: at the base of the stalk or seta in certain mosses or on the cone scale of certain conifers (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | callus, |
| definition | : | (botany) an isolated thickening of tissue, especially a stiff protuberance on the lip of an orchid (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | blister, |
| definition | : | (botany) a swelling on a plant similar to that on the skin (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | nodule, tubercle, |
| definition | : | small rounded wartlike protuberance on a plant (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | spur, |
| definition | : | tubular extension at the base of the corolla in some flowers (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | aculeus, |
| definition | : | a stiff sharp-pointed plant process (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | acumen, |
| definition | : | a tapering point (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | fuzz, hair, tomentum, |
| definition | : | filamentous hairlike growth on a plant (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | leaf node, node, |
| definition | : | (botany) the small swelling that is the part of a plant stem from which one or more leaves emerge (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | burl, |
| definition | : | a large rounded outgrowth on the trunk or branch of a tree (noun.plant) |
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