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In: Guide to Plant Poisoning of Animals in North America by Knight A. and Walter R.G.
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AUG 23, 2002
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    A

    • Achene - A dry indehiscent one-seeded fruit, attached to the pericarp at only one place; formed from a single carpel, the seed is distinct from the fruit, as in Asteracea.
    • Acuminate - Gradually tapering sides finished before arriving at the apex or tip.
    • Acute - Sharp-pointed.
    • Alternate - With a single leaf or other structure at each node.
    • Annual - Living one growing season.
    • Articulate - Jointed; breaking into distinct pieces without tearing at maturity.
    • Auriculate - Having ear-shaped appendages.
    • Awn - A bristle on the flowering glumes of grasses (oats).
    • Axil - The angle between the leaf or branch and the main axis.

    B

    • Berry - Simple, fleshy indehiscent (not splitting open) fruit with one or more seeds (tomato, nightshade).
    • Biennial - Living two growing seasons.
    • Bipinnate - Twice pinnately compound.
    • Blade - The expanded part of a leaf or floral part.
    • Bract - A small, rudimentary or imperfectly developed leaf.
    • Bulb - A bud with fleshy bracts or scales, usually subterranean.

    C

    • Calyx - The outer set of sterile, floral leaves called sepals.
    • Campanulate - Bell-shaped.
    • Canescent - Becoming gray or grayish.
    • Capitate - Arranged in a head, as the flowers in Compositae.
    • Capsule - A dry fruit of two or more carpels, usually dehiscent by valves.
    • Carpel - A portion of the ovary or female portion of the flower.
    • Catkin - Spike-like inflorescence, unisexual, usually with scaly bracts
    • Caulescent - Having a stem.
    • Cilia - Fine hairs or projections.
    • Ciliate - Having fine hairs or projections, usually as marginal hairs.
    • Circumscissile - Opening all around by a transverse split.
    • Compound - Composed of several parts or divisions.
    • Cordate - Heart-shaped.
    • Corolla - The inner set of sterile, usually colored, floral leaves; the petals considered collectively.
    • Corymb - A raceme with the lower flower stalks longer than those above, so that all the flowers are at the same level.
    • Crenate - With roundish teeth or lobes.
    • Cuneate - Wedge-shaped.
    • Cuspidate - Having a rigid point.
    • Cyme - An inflorescence; a convex or flat flower cluster, the central flowers unfolding.

    D

    • Deciduous - Dying back; seasonal shedding of leaves or other structures; falling off.
    • Decumbent - Lying flat, or being prostrate, but with the tip growing upwards.
    • Dentate - Toothed, with outwardly projecting teeth.
    • Denticulate - Finely toothed. Diffuse- Loosely spreading.
    • Dioecious - Only one sex in a plant; with male or female flowers only.
    • Disk(disc) - A flattened enlargement of the receptacle of a flower or inflorescence; the head of tubular flowers, as in sunflower.
    • Dissected - Divided into many segments.
    • Drupe - A fruit with a fleshy or pulpy outer part and a bone-like inner part; a single- seeded fleshy fruit.
    • Drupelet - A small drupe, as one section of a blackberry.

    E

    • Elliptic - Oval.
    • Entire - Without teeth, serrations, or lobes, as in leaf margins.

    F

    • Fascicle - A cluster of leaves or other structures crowded on a short stem.
    • Fibrous - A mass of adventitious fine roots.
    • Filiform - Threadlike.
    • Flaccid - Limp or flabby.
    • Follicle - A many-seeded dry fruit, derived from a single carpel, and splitting longitudinally down one side.
    • Fruit - The ripened ovary or ovaries with the attached parts Fuscous - Dingy-brown.

    G

    • Glabrate - Nearly without hairs.
    • Glabrous - Smooth or hairless.
    • Glaucous - Covered with a bluish or white bloom.
    • Glume - small dry, membranous bract at the base of a grass spikelet

    H

    • Hastate - Arrow-shaped with the basal lobes spreading.
    • Head - A dense inflorescence of sessile or nearly sessile flowers, as in Compositae.
    • Hirsute - Having rather coarse, stiff hairs.

    I

    • Incised - Cut into sharp lobes.
    • Indehiscent - Not opening at maturity.
    • Inflorescence - The arrangement of flowers on the flowering shoot, as a spike, panicle, head, cyme, umbel, raceme.
    • Involucre - Any leaflike structure protecting the reproducing structure, as in flower heads of Compositae and Euphorbiaceae.

    K

    • Keel - Projecting, united front petals as in the flowers of Fabaceae (peas).

    L

    • Lanceolate - Flattened, two or three times as long as broad, widest in the middle and tapering to a pointed apex; lance-shaped.
    • Leaf sheath - The lower part of a leaf, which envelopes the stem, as in grasses.
    • Leaflet - One of the divisions of a compound leaf.
    • Legume pod - A dry fruit, splitting by two longitudinal sutures with a row of seeds on the inner side of the central suture; as in family Fabaceae (Leguminosae).
    • Lenticular - Bean-shaped; shaped like a double convex lens.
    • Ligule - A membrane at the junction of the leaf sheath and leaf base of many grasses.
    • Linear - A long and narrow organ with the sides nearly parallel.
    • Lobed - Divided to about the middle or less.

    M

    • Midrib - The central rib of a leaf or other organ; midvein.
    • Monoecious - Flowers unisexual, both types on the same plant.

    N

    • Node - The part of a stem where the leaf, leaves, or secondary branches emerge.
    • Nutlet - A one-seeded portion of a fruit that fragments at maturity.

    O

    • Obcordate - Inversely heart-shaped.
    • Oblanceolate - Inversely lanceolate.
    • Oblique - With part not opposite, but slightly uneven.
    • Oblong - Elliptical, blunt at each end, having nearly parallel sides, two to four times as long as broad.
    • Obovate - Inversely ovate.
    • Obtuse - Blunt or rounded.
    • Ocrea - A thin, sheathing stipule or a united pair of stipules (as in Polygonaceae).
    • Orbicular - Nearly circular in outline.
    • Ovate - Egg-shaped.

    P

    • Palmate - Diverging like the fingers of a hand.
    • Panicle - An inflorescence, a branched raceme, with each branch bearing a raceme of flowers, usually of pyramidal form.
    • Pappus - A ring of fine hairs developed from the calyx, covering the fruit; acting as a parachute for wind-dispersal, as in dandelion.
    • Pedicel or peduncle - A short stalk.
    • Pedicelled - Having a short stalk, as a flower or fruit.
    • Peltate - More or less flattened, attached at the center on the underside.
    • Perennial - Growing many years or seasons.
    • Perfect - A flower having both stamens and carpels.
    • Perfoliate - Leaves clasping the stem, forming cups.
    • Perianth - The calyx and corolla together; a floral envelop.
    • Pericarp - The body of a fruit developed from the ovary wall and enclosing the seeds.
    • Persistent - Remaining attached after the growing season.
    • Petal - One of the modified leaves of the corolla; usually the colorful part of a flower.
    • Petiole - The unexpanded portion of a leaf; the stalk of a leaf.
    • Pilose - Having scattered, simple, moderately stiff hairs.
    • Pinnate - Leaves divided into leaflects or segments along a common axis; a compound leaf.
    • Pinnatifid - Pinnately cleft to the middle or beyond.
    • Pistillate - Female-flowered, with pistils only.
    • Prickle - A stiff, sharp-pointed outgrowth from the epidermis, as in Solanum.
    • Procumbent - Lying on the ground.
    • Puberulent - With very short hairs; woolly.
    • Pubescent - Covered with fine, soft hairs.
    • Punctate - With translucent dots or glands.

    R

    • Raceme - An inflorescence, with the main axis bearing stalked flowers, these opening from the base upward.
    • Racemose - Like a raceme or in a raceme.
    • Rachis - The axis of a pinnately compound leaf ; the axis of inflorescence; the portion of a fern frond to which the pinnae are attached.
    • Ray - A marginal flower with a strap-shaped corolla, as in Compositae.
    • Receptacle - The end of the flower stalk, bearing the parts of the flower.
    • Reniform - Kidney-shaped. Reticulate - netted, as veins in leaves; with a network of fine upstanding ridges, as on the surface of spores.
    • Retuse - Having a bluntly rounded apex with a central notch.
    • Rhizome - An elongated underground stem, as in ferns.
    • Rootstock - An elongated underground stem, usually in higher plants.
    • Rosette - A cluster of leaves, usually basal, as in dandelion.

    S

    • Sagittate - Arrowhead-shaped.
    • Scale - A highly modified, dry leaf, usually for protection.
    • Scape - A leafless or nearly leafless stem, coming from an underground part and bearing a flower or flower cluster, as in Allium.
    • Segment - A division of a compound leaf or of a perianth.
    • Sepal - One of the members of the calyx.
    • Serrate - With teeth projecting forward.
    • Serrulate - Finely serrate.
    • Sessile - Lacking a petiole or stalk.
    • Sigmoid - S-shaped.
    • Silicle - Similar to a silique, but short and broad.
    • Silique - A dry elongated fruit divided by a partition between the two carpels.
    • Sinuate - With long wavy margins.
    • Sinus - A depression or notch in a margin between two lobes.
    • Sorus - The brown colored fruiting structure of ferns, usually on the underside of the frond.
    • Spatulate - Widened at the top like a spatula.
    • Spike - An elongated inflorescence with sessile (stalkless) or nearly sessile flowers.
    • Spikelet - A small or secondary spike: the ultimate flower cluster of the inflorescence of grasses and sedges.
    • Spine - A short thorn-like structure.
    • Spinose - With spines.
    • Spinulose - With small, sharp spines.
    • Spreading - Diverging from the root and nearly prostrate.
    • Stamen - Male reproductive structure of a flower, consisting of the pollen bearing structure (anther) borne on a stalk or filament.
    • Staminate - Male- flowered, with stamens only.
    • Standard - The large petal that stands up at the back of the flower as in a pea flower.
    • Stellate - Star-shaped.
    • Stipule - An appendage at the base of a leaf, or other plant part.
    • Stolon - A basal branch rooting at the nodes.
    • Stramineous - Straw colored.
    • Striate - Marked with fine, longitudinal , parallel lines, ridges, or grooves.

    T

    • Taproot - A strong, fleshy root that grows vertically into the soil, with smaller lateral roots.
    • Tendril - Thread-like stem or leaf that clings to adjacent structures for support (peas)
    • Ternate - in 3s.
    • Tomentose - Densely matted with soft hairs.
    • Toothed - Dentate.
    • Trifoliate - A compound leaf with 3 leaflets (clover).
    • Tuber - Swollen underground stem for storing food (potato, poison hemlock), that can sprout to form new plants.
    • Tuberous - Forming tubers.

    U

    • Ubiquitous - Everywhere, in all types of habitat.
    • Umbel - Umbrella-shaped inflorescence, in which the pedicels (flower stalks) radiate from a common point like the ribs of an umbrella.
    • Undulate - Wavy, as the margins of leaves.

    V

    • Veins - The vascular portions of the leaves.
    • Villous - Covered with short, fine hairs.
    • Viscid - Sticky.

    W

    • Whorled - Three or more leaves, petals, or branches arranged in a ring at a node.
    • Wing - A thin, membranous extension of an organ.

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