plant process
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Noun | 1. | ![]() appendage, outgrowth, process - a natural prolongation or projection from a part of an organism either animal or plant; "a bony process" podetium - an organ or body resembling a stalk; especially the outgrowth of the thallus of certain lichens on which the ascocarp is borne peristome - (botany) fringe of toothlike appendages surrounding the mouth of a moss capsule haustorium - a root-like attachment in parasitic plants that penetrates and obtains food from the host apophysis - (botany) a natural swelling or enlargement: at the base of the stalk or seta in certain mosses or on the cone scale of certain conifers callus - (botany) an isolated thickening of tissue, especially a stiff protuberance on the lip of an orchid blister - (botany) a swelling on a plant similar to that on the skin spur - tubular extension at the base of the corolla in some flowers aculeus - a stiff sharp-pointed plant process acumen - a tapering point leaf node, node - (botany) the small swelling that is the part of a plant stem from which one or more leaves emerge burl - a large rounded outgrowth on the trunk or branch of a tree |
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