short-day

[shawrt-dey]

short-day

[shawrt-dey]
adjective Botany.
requiring a short photoperiod.

Origin:
1915–20
Dictionary.com Unabridged
Based on the Random House Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2012.
Cite This Source Link To short-day

00:10

00:09

00:08

00:07

00:06

00:05

00:04

00:03

00:02

00:01

Short-day is always a great word to know.
So is sporophyte. Does it mean:
form of a diploid plant in the alternation of generations that produces asexual spores
ovules in flowering plants which are enclosed during pollination
Collins
World English Dictionary
short-day
 
adj
Compare long-day (of plants) able to flower only if exposed to short periods of daylight (less than 12 hours), each followed by a long dark period

Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 10th Edition
2009 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins
Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009
Cite This Source
Dictionary.com, LLC. Copyright © 2012. All rights reserved.
  • Please Login or Sign Up to use the Recent Searches feature
FAVORITES
RECENT