tree terms Word Scramble
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| Question | Answer |
| broad leaf | wide and flat from side to side with many shapes and patterns |
| needle like | pointed, sharp, and thin |
| scale like | small modified leafs usually overlapping and thin |
| compound | composed of 2 or more similar parts united into a whole |
| leaflet | one of the small blades of a compound leaf |
| simple | of one piece;compound |
| opposite | said of leaves, branches, or buds iin opposite sides of a stem at a node |
| samara | an indehiscent winged fruit |
| palmate | radiately lobed or divided; hand shaped |
| pinnate | compound with the leaflets arranged along both sides of a common petiole |
| petiole | the stem or stalk of a leaf |
| lobed | provided with a lobe or lobes |
| lobe | any division of an organ especially is rounded |
| alternate | said of leaves, branches, buds, etc. scattered singly along the stem; not opposite |
| midrib | the central vein of a leaf or leaflet |
| serrate | toothed, the teeth sharp and pointing forward |
| entire | without divisions, lobes or teeth |
| terminal | at the end of something |
| nut | one cell, one fruit |
| indehiscent | doesn't open on a valve or slit |
| margin | the outer edge of a leaf; 4 margins |
| drupe | a fleshy or pulpy fruit in which the inner portion is hard or stony |
| conical | cone shaped, largest at base and tampering to the apix |
| apex | the top, as the tip of a bud or end of a leaf which is opposite of the petiole |
| pod | a dry and many seeded dehiscent fruit |
| dehiscent | opening by valves or slits |
| thorns | a stiff wooden projection which are sharp and pointy |
| aromatic | fragrant with an agreeable odor ( smells good) |
| ovate | shaped like the longitudinal section of a hens egg with the broad end basal |
| basal | at the bottom |
| cluster | a group of 2 or more organd ( flowers fruit etc.) on a plant at a node, or end os a stem |
| node | the place upon a stem which normally bears a leaf or whole leaves |
| conifer | atree of the pine family , so called form its bearing cones |
| cones | a fruit with woody overlapping scales |
| acorn | a fruit consisting of a nut enclosed in a cap of overlapping scales |
| lanceolate | lance shaped, broadest above base and tapers to the apex, but sever at times longer than it is wide |
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