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Adventitious roots: Roots, arising from any part of the plant, except the radicle.
Bud: A compact underdeveloped shoot, containing shortened stems, immature leaves or floral parts.
Bulbil: The modified bud, storing food, becomes flashy and later on produces new plant, when separated from parent plant.
Corm: Solid swollen underground bulb-shaped stem or stem base, serving as a reproductive structure.
Cotyledon: The first leaf of the embryo of seed plants, usually simpler in structure and stores reserve food material.
Epiphytes: Plants, growing on the stem and branches of other plants, but do not absorbing food from them.
Leaf: Flattened green structure, arising as lateral appendages from the stems or branches from the node, bearing a bud in its axil. Monocotyledons: The seeds, having only 1 cotyledon.
Prickles: The pointed, curved, sharp structures produced on the surface of stems in some plants.
Radicle: The part of the germinating seed that gives rise to root.
Root: The usually underground organ of plant that lacks buds or leaves or nodes, absorbs water and mineral salts and anchors the plant to the ground.
Root Pocket: Root cap, occurring as a loose covering in aquatic plants like Pistia.
Runner: A horizontal branch from the base of plant, producing new plants from buds at its tips.
Shoot system: The aerial part of the stems along with various branches.
Spine: A small sharp-pointed tip, resembling a spike on a stem or leaf, for the purpose of defense from grazing animals and excessive transpiration.
Stem: Generally aerial part of the plant along with various branches.
Stipule: A small leafy outgrowth at the base of a leaf or its stalk, usually occurring in pairs and shedding soon.
Stolon: Branches, arising from basal regions and growing obliquely like arches, able to produce new plants after coming in contact with ground. E.g. mint, Nephrolepis and strawberry.
Thorn: The apical or the axillary bud, developing into a sharp pointed structure in some plants.