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PLANT ORGAN
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A functional and structural unit of a plant or fungus
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("plant organ" is a kind of...):
plant part; plant structure (any part of a plant or fungus)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "plant organ"):
sprout (any new growth of a plant such as a new branch or a bud)
foliage; leaf; leafage (the main organ of photosynthesis and transpiration in higher plants)
capitulum; head (a dense cluster of flowers or foliage)
stalk; stem (a slender or elongated structure that supports a plant or fungus or a plant part or plant organ)
offset; runner; stolon (a horizontal branch from the base of plant that produces new plants from buds at its tips)
root hair (thin hairlike outgrowth of an epidermal cell just behind the tip; absorbs nutrients from the soil)
root cap (thimble-shaped mass of cells covering and protecting the growing tip of a root)
root ((botany) the usually underground organ that lacks buds or leaves or nodes; absorbs water and mineral salts; usually it anchors the plant to the ground)
fruiting body (an organ specialized for producing spores)
gill; lamella (any of the radiating leaflike spore-producing structures on the underside of the cap of a mushroom or similar fungus)
galea (an organ shaped like a helmet; usually a vaulted and enlarged petal as in Aconitum)
hypobasidium (special cell constituting the base of the basidium in various fungi especially of the order Tremellales)
cup (cup-shaped plant organ)
magic mushroom; mescal button; sacred mushroom (the button-shaped top of the mescal cactus; a source of psilocybin)
chlamys; floral envelope; perianth; perigone; perigonium (collective term for the outer parts of a flower consisting of the calyx and corolla and enclosing the stamens and pistils)
calyx tube; floral cup; hypanthium (the cuplike or ringlike or tubular structure of a flower which bears the sepals and stamens and calyx (as in Rosaceae))
archegonium (a female sex organ occurring in mosses, ferns, and most gymnosperms)
honey gland; nectary (a gland (often a protuberance or depression) that secretes nectar)
septum (a partition or wall especially in an ovary)
reproductive structure (the parts of a plant involved in its reproduction)
