Botany Dictionary

  • Carina

    Carina

    A keel-like structure, especially the fused lower petals in flowers of the Fabaceae family.

  • Carinate

    Carinate

    Having a keel or keel-like ridge.

  • Carnivorous

    Carnivorous

    Plants that trap and digest small animals (mainly insects) to supplement nutrient uptake.

  • Carpet

    Carpet

    A dense, low-growing ground cover of plants.

  • Carpel

    Carpel

    The fundamental female reproductive unit of a flower, consisting of ovary, style and stigma.

  • Carpogenic

    Carpogenic

    Producing or relating to fruit formation.

  • Carpophore

    Carpophore

    A slender stalk that supports the pistil in some flowers, or the fruiting body in fungi.

  • Bipinnately compound

    Bipinnately compound

    A leaf divided into pinnae that are themselves pinnate.

  • Bipinnately lobed

    Bipinnately lobed

    A leaf with two levels of pinnate division where the ultimate segments are lobed rather than fully divided.

  • Bipinnate-pinnatifid

    Bipinnate-pinnatifid

    A leaf that is bipinnate with the pinnules themselves pinnatifid (cut but not completely divided).