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• Underground stem — Underground stems are modified plant structures that derive from stem tissue but exist under the soil surface. Plants have two axes of growth, which can be best seen from seed germination and growth. Seedlings develop two structures or axes of… …   Wikipedia

• stem ginger — noun tropical Asian plant widely cultivated for its pungent root; source of gingerroot and powdered ginger • Syn: ↑common ginger, ↑Canton ginger, ↑Zingiber officinale • Hypernyms: ↑ginger • Part Meronyms: ↑ginger, ↑ …   Useful english dictionary

• Plant stem — Stem showing internode and nodes plus leaf petioles A stem is one of two main structural axes of a vascular plant. The stem is normally divided into nodes and internodes, the nodes hold buds which grow into one or more leaves, inflorescence… …   Wikipedia

• stem — stem1 stemless, adj. stemlike, adj. /stem/, n., v., stemmed, stemming. n. 1. the ascending axis of a plant, whether above or below ground, which ordinarily grows in an opposite direction to the root or descending axis. 2. the stalk that supports… …   Universalium

• Glossary of botanical terms — Many of the terms used in Wikipedia glossaries (often most) are already defined and explained within Wikipedia itself. However, lists like the following indicate where new articles need to be written and are also useful for looking up and… …   Wikipedia

• plant — plantable, adj. plantless, adj. plantlike, adj. /plant, plahnt/, n. 1. any member of the kingdom Plantae, comprising multicellular organisms that typically produce their own food from inorganic matter by the process of photosynthesis and that… …   Universalium

• Edible plant stems — Edible plant parts= Most plants are made up of roots, stems, leaves, flowers, buds and produce fruits containing seeds. We most commonly eat the seeds (e.g. maize, wheat, coffee and various nuts), fruit (e.g. tomato and apple), leaves (e.g.… …   Wikipedia

• Glossary of plant morphology terms — Biologists that study plant morphology use a number of different terms to describe plant organs and parts that can be observed with the human eye using no more than a hand held magnifying lens. These terms are used to identify and classify plants …   Wikipedia

• Vegetative reproduction — Production of new individuals along a leaf margin of the air plant, Kalanchoe pinnata. The small plant in front is about 1 cm tall. The concept of individual is obviously stretched by this process …   Wikipedia

• fern — fernless, adj. fernlike, adj. /ferrn/, n. any seedless, nonflowering vascular plant of the class Filicinae, of tropical to temperate regions, characterized by true roots produced from a rhizome, triangular fronds that uncoil upward and have a… …   Universalium

• Fern — /ferrn/, n. a female given name. * * * Any of about 10,000–12,000 species (division Filicophyta) of nonflowering vascular plants that have true roots, stems, and complex leaves and reproduce by spores. Though ferns were once classified with the… …   Universalium