noun

1. (botany) The plant (or the haploid phase in its life cycle) which produces gametes by mitosis in order to produce a zygote.

adjective

1. (botany) (of a calyx) having united sepals

proper noun (wikipedia, Gemma)

1. A feminine given name of Italian origin.
2. (star): A bright binary star in the constellation Corona Borealis; Alpha (α) Coronae Borealis.

noun

1. (botany) A perennial plant, for example the potato or daffodil, which in spring propagates from an underground organ such as a bulb, tuber, corm or rhizome.

noun

1. (biology) The small mass of cells from which a new organism develops; a seed, bud or spore.
2. A pathogenic microorganism.
3. An idea that forms the basis of some project.
4. The embryo of a seed, especially of a seed used as a cereal or grain. See w:Cereal germ, Wikipedia article on cereal germ.

noun

1. (zoology) an organ which secretes something
2. (botany) a secretory structure on the surface of an organ.

noun

1. (colour) a pale green colour with a bluish-grey tinge.

adjective

1. (colour) of a pale green colour with a bluish-grey tinge, especially when covered with a powdery residue

• 1955, I realised I was the only shopper in that rather eerie place where I moved about fishlike, in a glaucous aquarium. " Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
  

• 1994, inside you could see the wires and cables that ran aft to the rudder and elevators and the cracked and curled and sunblacked leather of the seats and in their tarnished nickel bezels the glass of instrument dials and clouded from the pumicing of the desert sands. " Cormac McCarthy?, The Crossing

noun

1. (botany) a basal, mambranous, outer sterile husk or bract in the flowers of grasses (Poaceae) and sedges (Cyperaceae)

noun

1. a knot in wood; a large or hard knot, or a protuberance with twisted grain, on a tree.
   
2. something resembling a knot in wood, such as in stone or limbs.
   1. (mathematics) The average value of the magnitude squared of the curl of a vector field over a continuous path that is tangent to the vector field at every point. In mathematical notation, gnarl is represented by the lowercase Greek letter ξ.

verb

1. (transitive) to knot or twist something
2. (intransitive) to snarl or growl; to gnar

adjective

1. knotty and misshapen
2. made rough by age or hard work

noun (plural: grafts)

1. A small shoot or scion of a tree inserted in another tree, the stock of which is to support and nourish it. The two unite and become one tree, but the graft determines the kind of fruit.
2. A branch or portion of a tree growing from such a shoot.
3. (surgery) A portion of living tissue used in the operation of autoplasty.
4. Hard work (colloq)
5. (slang) A criminal's special branch of practice
6. Illicit profit by corrupt means, esp.in public life.
7. Corruption in official life.
8. A con job.
9. (slang): A cut of the take (money).
10. , (context, Politics): A bribe, especially on an ongoing basis. (uncountable)

verb

1. To insert (a graft) in a branch or stem of another tree; to propagate by insertion in another stock; also, to insert a graft upon.
2. (surgery) To implant a portion of (living flesh or akin) in a lesion so as to form an organic union.
3. To join (one thing) to another as if by grafting, so as to bring about a close union.

Quotations

• And my love immortal on thy fame! " Pope
  1. (nautical) To cover, as a ring bolt, block strap, splicing, etc., with a weaving of small cord or rope-yarns.
  2. (intransitive) To insert scions from one tree, or kind of tree, etc., into another; to practice grafting.

adjective

1. (context, of a person) Describing one who enjoys being in crowds and socializing.
2. (zoology) Of animals who travel in herds or packs.

noun (alternate spelling groundcover)

1. Something, particularly plants, which overlay an area of land. May refer to plants specifically grown to prevent erosion of an area.

verb (grows, growing, grew, grown)

1. (intransitive) To become bigger.

Children quickly.

1. (intransitive) To appear or sprout.

The plant began to .

A long tail began to from his backside.

1. (transitive) To cause something to become bigger, especially plants.

He grows peppers and squash each summer in his garden.

noun

1. Any of the concentric rings formed in the trunk of a tree by the annual growth of wood

noun

1. (botany) Any plant such as a conifer whose seeds are not enclosed in an ovary.

adjective

1. (botany) Pertaining to the gymnosperms

adjective

1. Botany, having stamens and pistils together in a column.
   

   Orchids have gynandrous flowers.