Plants vocabulary

Plants vocabulary examples

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• branch

  noun

  The woody part of a tree arising from the trunk and usually dividing.

• flower

  noun

  The stem of a flowering plant with the blossom or blossoms attached, used for decoration, as a gift, etc.

• grass

  noun

  Any plant of the family Poaceae, characterized by leaves that arise from nodes in the stem and leaf bases that wrap around the stem, especially those grown as ground cover rather than for grain.

• leaf

  noun

  A foliage leaf or any of the many and often considerably different structures it can specialise into.

• plant

  noun

  An organism that is not an animal, especially an organism capable of photosynthesis, and typically a small or herbaceous organism of this kind, rather than a tree.

• root

  noun

  The part of a plant, generally underground, that anchors and supports the plant body, absorbs and stores water and nutrients, and in some plants is able to perform vegetative reproduction.

• tree

  noun

  A perennial woody plant taller and larger than a shrub with a wooden trunk and, at some distance from the ground, having leaves and branches.