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    PLANT PROCESS

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     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    A natural projection or outgrowth from a plant body or organplay

    Synonyms:

    enation; plant process

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("plant process" is a kind of...):

    appendage; outgrowth; process (a natural prolongation or projection from a part of an organism either animal or plant)

    Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "plant process"):

    podetium (an organ or body resembling a stalk; especially the outgrowth of the thallus of certain lichens on which the ascocarp is borne)

    peristome ((botany) fringe of toothlike appendages surrounding the mouth of a moss capsule)

    haustorium (a root-like attachment in parasitic plants that penetrates and obtains food from the host)

    apophysis ((botany) a natural swelling or enlargement: at the base of the stalk or seta in certain mosses or on the cone scale of certain conifers)

    callus ((botany) an isolated thickening of tissue, especially a stiff protuberance on the lip of an orchid)

    blister ((botany) a swelling on a plant similar to that on the skin)

    nodule; tubercle (small rounded wartlike protuberance on a plant)

    spur (tubular extension at the base of the corolla in some flowers)

    aculeus (a stiff sharp-pointed plant process)

    acumen (a tapering point)

    fuzz; hair; tomentum (filamentous hairlike growth on a plant)

    leaf node; node ((botany) the small swelling that is the part of a plant stem from which one or more leaves emerge)

    burl (a large rounded outgrowth on the trunk or branch of a tree)

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