Adenophyllous :: Adenophyllous (a.) Having glands on the leaves.

Allophylian :: Allophylian (a.) Pertaining to a race or a language neither Aryan nor Semitic.

Allophylic :: Allophylic (a.) Alt. of Allophylia.

Anisophyllous :: Anisophyllous (a.) Having unequal leaves.

Anomophyllous :: Anomophyllous (a.) Having leaves irregularly placed.

Anthophyllite :: Anthophyllite (n.) A mineral of the hornblende group, of a yellowish gray or clove brown color..

Aphyllous :: Aphyllous (a.) Destitute of leaves, as the broom rape, certain euphorbiaceous plants, etc..

Apophyllite :: Apophyllite (n.) A mineral relating to the zeolites, usually occurring in square prisms or octahedrons with pearly luster on the cleavage surface. It is a hydrous silicate of calcium and potassium..

Asterophyllite :: Asterophyllite (n.) A fossil plant from the coal formations of Europe and America, now regarded as the branchlets and foliage of calamites..

Carpophyll :: Carpophyll (n.) A leaf converted into a fruit or a constituent portion of a fruit; a carpel. [See Illust. of Gymnospermous..

Caryophyllaceous :: Caryophyllaceous (a.) Having corollas of five petals with long claws inclosed in a tubular, calyx, as the pink.

Caryophyllaceous :: Caryophyllaceous (a.) Belonging to the family of which the pink and the carnation are the types.

Caryophyllin :: Caryophyllin (n.) A tasteless and odorless crystalline substance, extracted from cloves, polymeric with common camphor..

Caryophyllous :: Caryophyllous (a.) Caryophyllaceous.

Chlorophyll :: Chlorophyll (n.) Literally, leaf green; a green granular matter formed in the cells of the leaves (and other parts exposed to light) of plants, to which they owe their green color, and through which all ordinary assimilation of plant food takes place. Similar chlorophyll granules have been found in the tissues of the lower animals..

Cladophyll :: Cladophyll (n.) A special branch, resembling a leaf, as in the apparent foliage of the broom (Ruscus) and of the common cultivated smilax (Myrsiphillum)..

Cormophylogeny :: Cormophylogeny (n.) The phylogeny of groups or families of individuals.

Cyanophyll :: Cyanophyll (n.) A blue coloring matter supposed by some to be one of the component parts of chlorophyll.

Cyathophylloid :: Cyathophylloid (a.) Like, or pertaining to, the family Cyathophyllidae..

Cyathophylloid :: Cyathophylloid (n.) A fossil coral of the family Cyathophyllidae; sometimes extended to fossil corals of other related families belonging to the group Rugosa; -- also called cup corals. Thay are found in paleozoic rocks.

Decaphyllous :: Decaphyllous (a.) Having ten leaves.

Diphyllous :: Diphyllous (a.) Having two leaves, as a calyx, etc..

Endecaphyllous :: Endecaphyllous (a.) Composed of eleven leaflets; -- said of a leaf.

Endophyllous :: Endophyllous (a.) Wrapped up within a leaf or sheath.

Epiphyllous :: Epiphyllous (a.) Growing upon, or inserted into, the leaf..

Epiphyllum :: Epiphyllum (n.) A genus of cactaceous plants having flattened, jointed stems, and petals united in a tube. The flowers are very showy, and several species are in cultivation..

Epiphylospermous :: Epiphylospermous (a.) Bearing fruit on the back of the leaves, as ferns..

Erythrophyll :: Erythrophyll (n.) Alt. of Erythrophylli.

Erythrophyllin :: Erythrophyllin (n.) The red coloring matter of leaves, fruits, flowers, etc., in distinction from chlorophyll..

Exophyllous :: Exophyllous (a.) Not sheathed in another leaf.

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