Annona Species Monograph.pdf - Crops for the Future

Glossary
anthesis - flower bud opening; strictly, the time of expansion of a flower
when pollination takes place, but often used to designate the flowering
period; the act of flower bud opening.
apex - the tip of an organ, the growing point.
apical - pertaining to the apex.
apiculate - having a short point at the tip.
arcuate - bow-shaped.
areole - a small pit or cavity marked out upon a surface.
asexual - lacking sexual characteristics, or when referring to reproduction,
occurring without the fusion of egg and sperm.
autotrophy - refers to a process by which an organism that can process
inorganic materials in to organic by using energy outside the organism such
as sunshine on chlorophyll.
axil - the upper angle formed by the union of a leaf with the stem.
axillary - pertaining to the organs in the axil, e.g. buds flowers or
inflorescence.
axis - the main or central stem of a herbaceous plant or of an inflorescence.
B
basal - borne on or near the base.
biotic - refers to any aspect of life, but especially to characteristics of entire
populations or ecosystems.
bipinnate - (of leaves) a pinnate leaf with primary leaflets themselves
divided in a pinnate manner; cf pinnate.
blade - the flattened part of a leaf; the lamina.
budding - method of propagating woody plants. A cutting of one variety,
called the scion with buds attached, is joined onto another related species or
variety called the rootstock. As the plant grows, the two parts graft together
to form one plant.
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