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Stamens

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antipetalous(botany) Alternative form of antepetalous. [(botany) Used of inner parts of flowers, most often stamens, that are in equal number to and aligned with the petals.]
antisepalous(botany) Alternative form of antesepalous. [(botany) Used of inner parts of flowers, most often stamens, that are in equal number to and aligned with the sepals.]
didynamous(botany) containing four stamens disposed in pairs of unequal length.
epipetalous(botany) Borne on the petals or corolla.
exsertedverb(botany) protruding, projecting
monadelphous(botany) Having all its stamens within a flower fused together at least partly by the filaments.
perigynous(botany) Having the stamens, petals or sepals situated around the ovary (especially, on the rim of the receptacle of a superior ovary).
tetradynamous(botany) Belonging to the former order Tetradynamia; having six stamens, four of which are uniformly longer than the others.
anthersnoun(botany) The pollen-bearing part of the stamen of a flower.
sepalsnoun(botany) One of the component parts of the calyx, particularly when such components are not fused into a single structure.
pistilsnoun(botany) A discrete organ in the center of a flower capable of receiving pollen and producing a fruit, it is divided into an ovary, style and stigma.
bractsnoun(botany) A leaf or leaf-like structure from the axil out of which a stalk of a flower or an inflorescence arises.
inflorescencesnoun(botany) A group or cluster of flowers arranged on a stem that is composed of a main branch or a system of branches.
axilsnoun(botany) The angle or point of divergence between the upper side of a branch, leaf, or petiole, and the stem or branch from which it springs.
spathenoun(botany) A large bract that envelops or subtends a whole inflorescence, typically a spadix.
petalsnoun(botany) One of the component parts of the corolla of a flower. It applies particularly, but not necessarily only, when the corolla consists of separate parts, that is when the petals are not connately fused. Petals are often brightly colored.
paniclesnoun(botany) A compound raceme.
umbelsnoun(botany) A flat-topped or rounded flower-cluster (= inflorescence) in which the individual flower stalks arise from the same point, the youngest flowers being at the centre.
racemesnoun(botany) An indeterminate inflorescence in which the flowers are arranged along a single central axis.
forewingsnounAlternative form of fore wing. [(entomology) Of an insect, either member of the pair of wings closest to the head.]

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