Plant Characteristics

A list of specialist words which might be used in field guides ... more.

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Nectar :	Sugary, watery fluid generally secreted to attract animals.
Parent Term:	Glands_(large_types)
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Nectary :	A nectar-secreting gland.
Parent Term:	Glands_(large_types)
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Neotype :	A specimen selected to serve in place of a holotype, where none of the original material to which the name was originally applied i
Parent Term:	Type_specimen
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Nerve :	(Major) channel in lamina after midrib (see marginal, basal, lateral and vein).
Parent Term:	Venation
Child Terms:	Lateral_nerve
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Nitid :	Lustrous, polished, shiny. (not used in this book, but a reason for so many of our species to be called ?nitida?).
Parent Term:	Surface_texture
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Nodding :	Bending very much, so that the apex is directed downwards.
Parent Term:	Stem
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Node :	Place on stem where leaves, flowers or branches arise or have fallen.
Parent Term:	Stem
Child Terms:	Ochrea Stipule Exstipulate Interpetiolar Ligulate Ligule Ocreate Pseudostipule Sheath Stipulate
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Nut :	1. Strictly, a hard, dry, indehiscent, single-seeded fruit with a hard dry pericarp (the shell); a nutlet is a small nut. 2. Howeve
Parent Term:	Indehiscent
Plural:	Nuts
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