Learn to Speak Fluent Botany

"This language may seem complicated and excessive," writes naturalist Emily Stone in "Learn to Speak Fluent Botany," in the Appleton Post Crescent, out of Appleton & the Fox Cities in Wisconsin. "But for humans, to name things is to see things, and vice versa."

Read more about Stone's botanical vocabulary lesson here.
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  1. fascicle
    a bundle of fibers (especially nerve fibers)
  2. sheath
    an enveloping structure or covering enclosing an organ
  3. imbricate
    place so as to overlap
  4. elongation
    an addition to the length of something
  5. desiccation
    dryness resulting from the removal of water
  6. ciliated
    having a margin or fringe of hairlike projections
  7. catkin
    a cylindrical spikelike inflorescence
  8. pendulous
    hanging loosely or bending downward
  9. arrangement
    an orderly grouping considered as a unit
  10. pubescent
    covered with fine soft hairs or down
Created on Wed Apr 01 22:15:56 EDT 2015 (updated Wed Apr 01 22:50:27 EDT 2015)

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