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Hort. Final II
Hort Final II
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Annual | Flowering plant that completes a life cycle within one growing season |
| Absorption | The process taking in liquid or gaseous substance |
| Asexually | Without union of male and female sex cells |
| Biennial | A plant that produces leaves and roots the first year and flowers and fruit the second year |
| Bulb | A vegetable structure that consists of layers of fleshy overlapping each other like an onion |
| Bulblet | Immature bulb which develops at the base of the bulb |
| Bareroot | Roots with no soil because the soil was wached or shaken away |
| Corm | Solid swollen underground bulb-shaped stem or stem base and serves as a reproductive structure |
| Container growing | Growing nursery crops to marketable size in a container |
| Common Name | English name of a plant that may differ in various locations |
| Cotyledons | First leaves to appear on a plant: seed leaves |
| Cutting | Section of stem or root used for propagation of plants |
| Deciduous plant | Plants that loses their leaves during certain seasons |
| Dicot | Flowering plant with two cotyledons |
| Direct seeding | Planting seeds in a permanent growing site |
| Division | Method of propagation requiring the cutting and dividing of plants |
| Dormant | Resting. nongrowing state |
| Environment | Surrounding area |
| Evergreen | Plant that has leaves or needles throughout the year |
| Focal point | Accent point in an flower arrangement where the attention is focused |
| Forcing | Growing plants to flowers at other than their normal season |
| Hardening off | Gradually subjecting plants to more difficult growing conditions by withholding water and decreasing the temperature: preparing plants for transplating |
| Horticulture | The cultivation of plants |
| Misting system | A piped water system used in greenhouses which uses nozzles to spray fine droplets of water on plants |
| Monocot | Type of floweriness plant with one cotyledon, seed leaf |
| Mutrients | Plant food elements |
| Perennal | Plant that grows year after year without replanting; plants whose roots live year after year |
| Pest | Unwanted animals, plants, bacterium or fungus |
| Photowyntheses | Process by which plants use the sun's energy to convert water and carbon dioxide into sugar |
| Propagate | To reproduce |
| Reproduction | Increase in number |
| Rooting hormone | A hormone used to enhance production of roots on a cutting |
| Science name | Latin name of a plant giving its genus and species |
| Fertilizer that releases plant nutrients over a long period of time | Slow release fertilizer |
| free from all organisms | Sterile |
| Loss of water from a plant through its leaves | Transpiration |
| The act of uprooting and moving a plant to a new location | Transplant |
| Fleshy root that reproduces by growing roots from an eye or bud | Tuber |
| Grasses that act as vegetative ground cover | Turf-grass |
| Any plant growing where it is not wanted | Weed |
| Any natural or man made screen to slow wind speed | Windbreak |
| Techniques of landscaping that conserves water | Xeriscaping |
| Structure on a plant vine or stem that allows the plant to attach itself to a trellis or other structure | Tendril |
| A structure or frame to support climbing plants | Trellis |
| The main stem of a tree | Trunk |
| No soil in the growing mix | Soilless |
| Method or propagation that occurs naturally in which reproduction organs of plants detach from the parent plant to become new plants | Separation |
| Underground stem that produces roots on the lower surface and extends leaves and flowering shoots above the ground | Rhizome |
| Root-bound | When plants roots are overcrowded in the container' it usually causes the root to grow to grow into a circle in the container |
| pH Level | Measure of the soils acidity or alkalinity level on a scale of 1 to 14 |
| pH | a measure of how acidic or basic a solution is |
| monocot | A plant having only one cotyledon or seed leaf |
| Trellis | Latticework used to support climbing plants |
| Pot bound | Roots growing in a tight pattern around the walls of the container |
| Herbicide | A substance for killing plants, especially weeds |
| Lethal dose | Dose that causes death |
| Rodeinticide | Chemical used to rid of mice and rats |
| Insecticide | Chemical used to kill insects |
| Chronic toxicity | Measure how a pesticide is over a period of time |
| Calibrated | Adjusted or set up |
| Chromosome | A threadlike body in the cell nucleus that carries the genes in a linear order |
| DNA | Deoxyribonucleis acid: the genetic material that carries information about an organism and is passed from parent to offspring |
| Lipid | An oily organic compound insoluble in water but soluble in organic solvents |
| Cell Membrane | Regulates what enters and leaves the cell |
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