Keywords
Keywords beginning with E:
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ebracteate: lacking bracts.
echinate: provided with prickles.
echinulate: diminutive of echinate.
eciliate: lacking cilia or short hairs
ecotype: the individuals of a sp. that are adapted to a particular environment.
edaphic: pertaining to soil.
elaiosome (1 image): small, fat-rich appendage on seed for the purpose of biotic seed dispersal.
ellipsoid: elliptic in long-section and circular in cross-section.
elliptic (5 images): with approximately the shape of a geometrical ellipse.
emarginate: with a small notch at the tip.
emergent (3 images): plant that grows from below and rises above the water surface.
endemic: confined to a particular geographic area.
endocarp: the inner part of the pericarp.
endosperm: food storage tissue of a seed derived from the triple fusion nucleus of the embryo sac.
endosporic: gametophyte that develops within a spore.
ensiform: sword-shaped.
entire (margin): not toothed or otherwise cut.
entomophagy: insect-consuming.
entomophilous: pollinated by insects.
epappose: without pappus.
ephemeral: lasting for only a short time.
epigeous: aboveground, often referring to location of cleistogamous flowers.
epigynous: with the perianth and stamens attached to the top of the ovary.
epipetalous (1 image): attached to the petals or corolla.
epiphyte: a plant growing upon another plant, but not deriving its food or water from it.
equitant: astride, as if riding; overlapping in 2 ranks, as in the leaves of Iris.
erose (5 images): with an irregular margin, as if gnawed.
excrescence: an irregular outgrowth or protuberance.
excurrent: with a continuing central axis, from which lateral branches arise.
exfoliating: peeling off in layers.
exocarp: the outer layer or part of the pericarp.
exserted (17 images): projecting beyond an envelope, as stamens from a corolla.
exstipulate: without stipules.
extrorse: turned toward the outside, or facing outward.
