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