First Steps to Botany [...]Longman, 1826 - 391 страници |
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... means bitten off , as though the lower part of the root had been bitten away by a person's teeth . It is also called an abrupt , or a stumped , or an end - bitten root ; but certainly premorse is much preferable to any of these terms ...
... means bitten off , as though the lower part of the root had been bitten away by a person's teeth . It is also called an abrupt , or a stumped , or an end - bitten root ; but certainly premorse is much preferable to any of these terms ...
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... means the number one , because this plant sends off no offsets or bulbs from the original , for no one ever saw two onions at one stalk . This vegetable is cultivated over most of the known world , but its original country is unknown ...
... means the number one , because this plant sends off no offsets or bulbs from the original , for no one ever saw two onions at one stalk . This vegetable is cultivated over most of the known world , but its original country is unknown ...
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... means of its thick - set , broad upper leaves , " till flowering , " then each flower sinks by the elongation of the top of the stem , where new ones are produced , and finally the whole herb subsides to the bottom , takes root there ...
... means of its thick - set , broad upper leaves , " till flowering , " then each flower sinks by the elongation of the top of the stem , where new ones are produced , and finally the whole herb subsides to the bottom , takes root there ...
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James Lawson Drummond. 36 CHAPTER II . OF THE STEM . THE Word CAUDEX means the stem or trunk of a tree , and is derived from the verb cado to cut down , ground , it comes easily But we have seen that alone is the cause of a because ...
James Lawson Drummond. 36 CHAPTER II . OF THE STEM . THE Word CAUDEX means the stem or trunk of a tree , and is derived from the verb cado to cut down , ground , it comes easily But we have seen that alone is the cause of a because ...
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... means , he would say , " a shrub of small size , " " a shrub lower than shrubs usually are ; " but he would be mistaken , for the term has no reference to magnitude . - - There is a very pretty plant , which in spring and part of the ...
... means , he would say , " a shrub of small size , " " a shrub lower than shrubs usually are ; " but he would be mistaken , for the term has no reference to magnitude . - - There is a very pretty plant , which in spring and part of the ...
Често срещани думи и фрази
afford animals anther appearance beautiful blossoms botanist Botany branches buds bulb called calyx capsule CAULIS clothed colour common compound flower contains corolla covered culm cuticle different species Digynia earth example feet ferns filaments fleshy floating florets FOLIUM frond fructification fruit Fuci Fucus garden genera genus grasses green grow hairs hence herb insects instance INVOLUCRUM Jamaica juice kind latter leaf leaf-stalk leaflets leaves Legume Lichen lily Linnæus means Monogynia mosses named native nature nourishment observe palm peduncle perhaps perianth pericarp petals petiole pinnate pinnate leaf pistil plants pollen primrose produce RADIX receptacle remarkable resemble root round says scarcely sea-weeds seed-vessels seeds shrub silicle Sir J. E. Smith sometimes stalk stamens stem stipe succulent plants surface sweet tendrils term thick thorn Travels trees TRIANDRIA Trigynia trunk tube tubers umbel vegetables violet volva Voyage winds Withering wood
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