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ESL Botany
flower vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is a petal? | It is a division of the corolla of a flower. |
| What are guard petals? | They are the outer petals of a rose. |
| What are lip petals? | They are the lower petals of irregular flowers like orchids. |
| What is the corolla? | They are the petals of the flower. |
| What is the stigma? | It is the part of a pistil where fiertization by pollen happens. |
| What is the pistil? | It is the seed bearing organ of a flower. |
| What is a seed? | It is the ripened ovule; the future plant. |
| What is the seed coat? | It is the outer protective covering of a seed. |
| What is the seed leaf? | It is another name for cotyledon. |
| What is a seedling? | It is a young plant. |
| What is the embryo? | It is the beginning plant inside a seed. |
| What is germination? | It is the sprouting of a seed. |
| What is the ovule? | It is the flower which after fertilization becomes a seed. |
| What is fertilization? | It is the union of male and female gametes. |
| What is the style? | It is the tube-like structure of the pistil connecting the stigma and the ovary. |
| What is the calyx? | It is the outer part of the flower usually green and formed of several divisions called sepals that protect the bud. |
| What are sepals? | A division of a calyx |
| What is a bud? | A new flower |
| What is a terminal bud? | It is a bud formed at the tip of a stem. |
| What is a leaf bud? | It is an undeveloped leaf |
| What is the stamen? | It is the male pollen bearing organ of a flower. |
| What is pollen? | they are microspores of a seed plant in the anther |
| What is the stem? | It is the main support of a plant. |
| What is filament? | It is the part of the stamen which support the anther. |