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Dictionary: BOTANICAL & TECHNICAL TERMINOLOGY
Glossary of terms beginning with B

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B

Bacca [ Botany ]

Bacteria  [ Biology ]

Bactericide   [ Chemistry - Agronomy - Phytopathology ]

Bagging  [ Horticulture ]

Ball-shaped  [ Botany ]

Barb barbed [ Botany ]

Bare-root (plant) [ Horticulture ]

Bark [ Botany ]

Barrel shaped [ Botany ]

Barrier   [ Biology - Ecology - Genetics - Agronomy - Meteorology ]

Basal [ Biology - Botany ]

Basal placentation [ Botany ]

Basally branching [ Botany ]

Base [ Biology - Botany - Chemistry - Genetics ]

Basic (chromosomes) number [ Genetics ]

Basifixed [ Botany ]

Basifixed anther [ Botany ]

Basionym [ Taxonomy ]

Bed [ Horticulture ]

Bee pollination [ Botany ]

Beetle [ Entomology ]

Bell-shaped [ Botany ]

Berry [ Botany ]

Betalain or Betacyanin [ Biochemistry - Botany ]  Biennial plants [ Botany ]

Biennial plants [ Botany ]

Bifurcate [ Botany ]

Bilateral symmetry [ Botany - Geometry ]

Bilobed [ Botany - Geometry ]

Binomial nomenclature  [ Taxonomy ]

Biochemical  [ Biology -  Chemistry ]

Biochemistry [ Biology - Physiology ]

Biocontrol agent [ Agronomy - Horticulture ]

Biodiversity [ Biology - Ecology ]

Biogeography [ Biology ]

Biologic classification [ Taxonomy ]

Biologic cultivation [ Agronomy - Horticulture ]

Biological [ Biology - Chemistry- Biochemistry - Agronomy - Horticulture]  

Biologist [ Biology ]

Biology  

Biomass [ Ecology ]

Biome [ Ecology ]

Biosphere [ Ecology ]

Biosynthesis [ Biology - Biochemistry]

Biota (Plural biotas)   [ Ecology - Taxonomy ]

Biotic   [ Ecology ]

Biotype [ Biology ]

Bipinnate [ Botany ]

Bird [ Biology - Agronomy - Horticulture ]

Bird-pollination [ Botany ]

Birth [ Biology ]

Bisexual (flower) [ Botany ]

Black spot disease [ Phytopathology ]

Blade [ Botany ]

Blights [ Botany - Phytopathology ]

Bloom [ Botany ]

Blossom [ Botany ]

Body [ Biology ]

Body fluids [ Biology - Botany ]

Body of water [ Ecology - Climatology ]

-borne ( Suffix) 

Boron [ Chemistry ]

Botanical garden [ Horticulture ]

Botanical name [ Taxonomy ]

Botanist [ Botany ]

Botany [ Biology ]

Botrytis [ Phytopatology ]

Bract [ Botany ]

Brachyblast  [ Botany ]

Bracteole or Bractlet [ Botany ]

Brain-shaped  [ Botany - Habit of growth ]

Branch [ Botany - Anatomy - Morphology]

Branching patterns [ Botany ]

Breed [ Genetics ]

Breeding [ Genetics ]

Bright shade [ Ecology - Horticulture ]

Bristle [ Botany ]

Bristle-like [ Botany ]

Broadleaf plants [ Botany ]

Brother [ Biology ]

Bud [ Botany ]

Bud mutation [ Botany - Genetics ] 

Bud trace [ Botany ]

Bud union [ Horticulture ]

Budding [ Horticulture ]

Bulb [ Botany ]

Bulbil [ Botany ]

Bullate [ Botany ]

Bush [ Botany ]

Butterfly [ Entomology ]

 
 

 


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Holdfast roots  [ Botany  ]

Dictionary of botanic terminology - index of names

 
     
  Some species of climbing plants develop holdfast roots which help to support the vines on trees, walls, and rocks. By forcing their way into minute pores and crevices, they hold the plant firmly in place.  
     
Climbing plants, like the poison ivy (Toxicodendron radicans), Boston ivy (Parthenocissus tricuspidata), and trumpet creeper (Campsis radicans),  develop holdfast roots which help to support the vines on trees, walls, and rocks. By forcing their way into minute pores and crevices, they hold the plant firmly in place. Usually the Holdfast roots die at the end of the first season, but in some species they are perennial. In the tropics some of the large climbing plants have hold-fast roots by which they attach themselves, and long, cord-like roots that extend downward through the air and may lengthen and branch for several years until they strike the soil and become absorbent roots.

Major references and further lectures:
1) E. N. Transeau “General Botany” Discovery Publishing House, 1994
   

 

 

 

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