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stinking smut |
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similar to Tilletia caries |
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stinking smut |
Noun
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disease of wheat characterized by replacement of the grains with greasy masses of smelly smut spores |
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snow mushroom |
Noun
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popular in China and Japan and Taiwan |
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shelf fungus |
Noun
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a woody fungus that forms shelflike sporophores on tree trunks and wood structures |
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stolon |
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a horizontal branch from the base of plant that produces new plants from buds at its tips |
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sapling |
Noun
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young tree |
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shade tree |
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a tree planted or valued chiefly for its shade from sunlight |
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stipe |
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supporting stalk or stem-like structure especially of a pistil or fern frond or supporting a mushroom cap |
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spikelet |
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a small sharp-pointed tip resembling a spike on a stem or leaf |
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stinging hair |
Noun
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a multicellular hair in plants like the stinging nettle that expels an irritating fluid |
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shrub |
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a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems |
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shrublet |
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dwarf shrub |
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subshrub |
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low-growing woody shrub or perennial with woody base |
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suffrutex |
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low-growing woody shrub or perennial with woody base |
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sporophyll |
Noun
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leaf in ferns and mosses that bears the sporangia |
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sporophyl |
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leaf in ferns and mosses that bears the sporangia |
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sporangium |
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organ containing or producing spores |
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spore sac |
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organ containing or producing spores |
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sporangiophore |
Noun
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stalk bearing one or more sporangia |
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scorpioid cyme |
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a cyme with flowers or branches alternating in opposite ranks |
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semiparasite |
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a parasitic plant that contains some chlorophyll and therefore is capable of photosynthesis |
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spadix |
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the fleshy axis of a spike often surrounded by a spathe |
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sporophore |
Noun
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a spore-bearing branch or organ: the part of the thallus of a sporophyte that develops spores |
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syconium |
Noun
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the fleshy multiple fruit of the fig consisting of an enlarged hollow receptacle containing numerous fruitlets |
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syncarp |
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fruit consisting of many individual small fruits or drupes derived from separate ovaries within a common receptacle: e.g. blackberry |
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sorus |
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cluster of sporangia usually on underside of a fern frond |
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sorus |
Noun
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a spore-producing structure in certain lichens and fungi |
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simple fruit |
Noun
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an indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp: e.g. grape |
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swamp plant |
Noun
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a semiaquatic plant that grows in soft wet land |
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stone fruit |
Noun
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fleshy indehiscent fruit with a single seed: e.g. almond |
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spermatozoid |
Noun
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a motile male gamete of a plant such as an alga or fern or gymnosperm |
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seedpod |
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a several-seeded dehiscent fruit as e.g. of a leguminous plant |
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semiepiphyte |
Noun
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a plant that is an epiphyte for part of its life |
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strangler tree |
Noun
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an epiphytic vine or tree whose aerial roots extend down the trunk of a supporting tree and coalesce around it eventually strangling the tree |
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sapwood |
Noun
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newly formed outer wood lying between the cambium and the heartwood of a tree or woody plant |
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seedcase |
Noun
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the vessel that contains the seeds of a plant (not the seeds themselves) |
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saxicolous plant |
Noun
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plants growing among rocks |
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saprophyte |
Noun
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an organism that feeds on dead organic matter especially a fungus or bacterium |
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saprophytic organism |
Noun
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an organism that feeds on dead organic matter especially a fungus or bacterium |
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saprobe |
Noun
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an organism that lives in and derives its nourishment from organic matter in stagnant or foul water |
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sieve tube |
Noun
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tube formed by cells joined end-to-end through which nutrients flow in flowering plants and brown algae |
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strap fern |
Noun
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fern with long narrow strap-shaped leaves |
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swamp lily |
Noun
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North American herbaceous perennial of wet places having slender curled racemes of small white flowers |
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snake polypody |
Noun
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epiphytic ferns with long rhizomes |
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serpent fern |
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tropical American fern with brown scaly rhizomes cultivated for its large deeply lobed deep bluish-green fronds |
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spathe |
Noun
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a conspicuous bract surrounding or subtending a spadix or other inflorescence |
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scale leaf |
Noun
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a specialized leaf or bract that protects a bud or catkin |
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squamule |
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a minute scale |
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simple leaf |
Noun
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a leaf that is not divided into parts |
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sagittate-leaf |
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a leaf shaped like an arrow head |