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adjective
Botany
.
having the female reproductive organ arising from the apical
cell
of the stem, thereby terminating its growth, as certain liverworts.
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anacrogynous
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-gynous
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organism capable of self-nourishment which uses photosynthesis or chemosynthesis for energy
organism that has a nucleus containing genetic material
female reproductive organ which produces eggs in bryophytes, ferns and most gymnosperms
form of a diploid plant in the alternation of generations that produces asexual spores
green coloring of leaves and plants needed for photosynthesis
ovules in flowering plants which are enclosed during pollination
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