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The upper angle between one part of a plant and another, e.g. the stem and a leaf. axile On an axis; of a placenta, on the central axis of the ovary. axillary Borne in or arising from the axil, usually referring to the axil of a leaf. axis The main stem of a whole plant or inflorescence; also, the line along which this stem extends.
In fiction. Audrey Jr.: a man-eating plant in the 1960 film The Little Shop of Horrors. Audrey II: a singing, fast-talking alien plant with a taste for human blood in the stage show Little Shop of Horrors and the 1986 film of the same name. Bat-thorn: a plant, similar to wolfsbane, offering protection against vampires in Mark of the Vampire.
Indehiscent – not opening at maturity. Reticulate – web-like or network-like. Striated – marked by a series of lines, grooves, or ridges. Tesselate – marked by a pattern of polygons, usually rectangles. Wing (plant) – any flat surfaced structure emerging from the side or summit of an organ; seeds, stems.
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Gotta love FarmVille, you're never quite sure what you'll find when you habitually log in first thing after waking up in the morning. Today, we discovered a new Botanical Garden, a new buildable ...
Geodesic dome. A geodesic dome is a hemispherical thin-shell structure (lattice-shell) based on a geodesic polyhedron. The rigid triangular elements of the dome distribute stress throughout the structure, making geodesic domes able to withstand very heavy loads for their size.
1 May 2014. Genre (s) Graphic adventure game. Mode (s) Single-player. Botanicula is a point-and-click adventure game developed by Amanita Design. The game was released on 19 April 2012, for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. The game was later ported to iOS and Android. [ 4][ 5][ 6]
Edward Hitchcock's fold-out paleontological chart in his 1840 Elementary Geology. Although tree-like diagrams have long been used to organise knowledge, and although branching diagrams known as claves ("keys") were omnipresent in eighteenth-century natural history, it appears that the earliest tree diagram of natural order was the 1801 "Arbre botanique" (Botanical Tree) of the French ...