juvenile plant

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• Plant morphology — (or phytomorphology) is the general term for the study of the morphology (physical form and external structure) of plants. [Raven, P. H., R. F. Evert, S. E. Eichhorn. Biology of Plants , 7th ed., page 9. (New York: W. H. Freeman, 2005). ISBN 0… …   Wikipedia

• plant — [ plɑ̃ ] n. m. • XIVe « action de planter »; de planter 1 ♦ Techn. Ensemble de végétaux de même espèce plantés dans un même terrain; le terrain ainsi planté. ⇒ pépinière, planche, plantation. Un plant d arbres, de rosiers. Acheter des plants chez …   Encyclopédie Universelle

• juvenile — [jo͞o′və nīl΄, jo͞o′vənəl] adj. [L juvenilis < juvenis,YOUNG] 1. a) young or youthful b) immature or childish 2. of, characteristic of, or suitable for children or young persons 3. Geol. emanating from the interior of the earth for the first… …   English World dictionary

• plant development — Introduction       a multiphasic process in which two distinct forms succeed each other in alternating generations. One form, created by the union of sexual cells (gametes (gamete)), contains two sets of similar chromosomes (diploid). At sexual… …   Universalium

• juvenile — I UK [ˈdʒuːvənaɪl] / US [ˈdʒuvən(ə)l] adjective * 1) a) [only before noun] relating to young people who have committed a crime or who are accused of committing a crime juvenile criminals/offenders juvenile crime b) formal relating to young people …   English dictionary

• juvenile — ju|ve|nile1 [ dʒuvənl ] adjective * 1. ) only before noun relating to young people who have committed a crime or who are accused of a crime: juvenile criminals/offenders juvenile crime a ) VERY FORMAL relating to young people 2. ) silly and not… …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

• Plant sexuality — Close up of an Echinopsis spachiana flower, showing both carpels (only the styles and stigmas are visible) and stamens, making it a perfect flower. Plant sexuality covers the wide variety of sexual reproduction systems found across the plant… …   Wikipedia

• juvenile hormone — Biochem. any of a class of insect and plant hormones acting to inhibit the molting of a juvenile insect into its adult form. [1935 40] * * * ▪ biochemistry also called  Neotenin,         a hormone in insects, secreted by glands near the brain,… …   Universalium

• juvenile leaf —   Leaf of a young plant (and of offsets and suckers) that is different in form from those of an adult.   Cf. adult leaf …   Expanded glossary of Cycad terms

• reproductive system, plant — Introduction       any of the systems, sexual or asexual, by which plants reproduce. In plants, as in animals, the end result of reproduction is the continuation of a given species, and the ability to reproduce is, therefore, rather conservative …   Universalium

• Carnivorous plant — Insectivorous Plants redirects here. For the book by Charles Darwin, see Insectivorous Plants (book). Nepenthes mirabilis in flower, growing on a road cut in Palau Carnivorous plants are plants that derive some or most of their nutrients (but not …   Wikipedia