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• Flowering plant — Flowering plants Temporal range: Early Cretaceous Recent …   Wikipedia

• flowering plant — a plant that produces flowers, fruit, and seeds; angiosperm. [1860 65] * * * Any of the more than 250,000 species of angiosperms (division Magnoliophyta) having roots, stems, leaves, and well developed conductive tissues (xylem and phloem). They… …   Universalium

• flowering plant — noun Date: 1745 angiosperm …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• flowering plant — цветковое растение …   Англо-русский словарь по экологии

• flowering plant — 1) Биология: цветущее растение 2) Лесоводство: цветочное растение, явнобрачное растение 3) Экология: цветковое растение …   Универсальный англо-русский словарь

• early flowering plant — Макаров: раннецветущее растение …   Универсальный англо-русский словарь

• late flowering plant — Макаров: позднецветущее растение …   Универсальный англо-русский словарь

• Plant physiology — is a subdiscipline of botany concerned with the function, or physiology, of plants.Salisbury, Frank B. Cleon W. Ross, 1992. Plant physiology , 4th ed. (Belmont, California: Wadsworth Publishing). ISBN 0 534 15162 0] Closely related fields include …   Wikipedia

• Plant hormone — Plant hormones (also known as phytohormones) are chemicals that regulate plant growth. Plant hormones are signal molecules produced within the plant, and occur in extremely low concentrations. Hormones regulate cellular processes in targeted… …   Wikipedia

• Flowering — Flow er*ing, a. (Bot.) Having conspicuous flowers; used as an epithet with many names of plants; as, flowering ash; flowering dogwood; flowering almond, etc. [1913 Webster] {Flowering fern}, a genus of showy ferns ({Osmunda}), with conspicuous… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English