Botany Dictionary

  • Cinereous

    Cinereous

    Ash-gray in color (describing hairy or powdery plant surfaces).

  • Circinate

    Circinate

    Coiled from the apex downward, as in young fern fronds.

  • Circular

    Circular

    Round in outline (describing leaf shapes or other structures).

  • Circumferential

    Circumferential

    Arranged around the circumference or periphery.

  • Circumnutation

    Circumnutation

    The spiral or elliptical movement of growing plant organs (stems, tendrils).

  • Circumscissile

    Circumscissile

    Dehiscing by a transverse circular split, as in some seed capsules.

  • Cirrhose

    Cirrhose

    Having a tendril or slender curling appendage.

  • Caulocarpous

    Caulocarpous

    Bearing fruit on the main stem or old wood.

  • Cell

    Cell

    The basic structural and functional unit of plant tissues, surrounded by a cell wall.

  • Centrifugal

    Centrifugal

    Developing from the center outward (applied to inflorescences or other structures).