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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In botany, a plant-part, or plant-unit —that is, one of the structures or elements which, produced in a series, make up a plant of the higher grade.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) An organic element of a flowering plant; a phyton.
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- noun botany An
organic element of aflowering plant ; aphyton .
Etymologies
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From Ancient Greek plant + share.
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