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(1) Body  [ Biology ]
Adjective: Bodily

Dictionary of botanic terminology - index of names

     
  Body with regard to living beings, is the integral physical material of an individual.  
     
(2) Body of plants  [ Botany ]
     
  The body of plants composed of more than one cell consists of two basic parts: the shoot system and the root system.  
     
  The shoot system includes organs such as leaves, buds, stems, flowers, and fruits and usually it develops above ground.

The functions of the shoot system include

 

  The root system includes roots as well as modified stem structures such as tubers and rhizomes and usually it develops underground.

The functions of the root system include

(3) Body of organs [ Anatomy ]
     
  In anatomy a body is the largest, principal or central part of an organ.  
     

 


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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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