Nouns denoting plants
- universal veil
- membrane initially completely investing the young sporophore of various mushrooms that is ruptured by growth; represented in the mature mushroom by a volva around lower part of stem and scales on upper surface of the cap
- Orbignya phalerata
- tall feather palm of northern Brazil with hard-shelled nuts yielding valuable oil and a kind of vegetable ivory
- Artocarpus heterophyllus
- East Indian tree cultivated for its immense edible fruit and seeds
- New Zealand cotton
- a fiber from the bast of New Zealand ribbon trees that resembles cotton fiber
- genus Phillyrea
- small genus of evergreen shrubs of the Mediterranean region
- genus Andropogon
- tall annual or perennial grasses with spikelike racemes; warm regions
- sponge gourd
- any of several tropical annual climbers having large yellow flowers and edible young fruits; grown commercially for the mature fruit's dried fibrous interior that is used as a sponge
- chestnut tree
- any of several attractive deciduous trees yellow-brown in autumn; yield a hard wood and edible nuts in a prickly bur
- Cucumis melo inodorus
- any of a variety of muskmelon vines having fruit with a smooth white rind and white or greenish flesh that does not have a musky smell
- conidiophore
- a specialized fungal hypha that produces conidia
- Dalbergia retusa
- a valuable timber tree of tropical South America
- water starwort
- any of several aquatic plants having a star-shaped rosette of floating leaves; America, Europe and Asia
- creeper
- any plant (as ivy or periwinkle) that grows by creeping
- family Amaranthaceae
- cosmopolitan family of herbs and shrubs
- fir
- nonresinous wood of a fir tree
- Egyptian cotton
- fine somewhat brownish long-staple cotton grown in Egypt; believed to be derived from sea island cotton or by hybridization with Peruvian cotton
- family Hypocreaceae
- family of fungi having brightly colored fleshy or membranous ascocarps; sometimes placed in its own order Hypocreales
- apomict
- a plant that reproduces or is reproduced by apomixis
- angiospermous yellowwood
- any of various angiospermous trees having yellow wood
- Brunfelsia americana
- West Indian shrub with fragrant showy yellowish-white flowers
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