The definitions below refer to how words are used on this website.
- annual
- a plant that completes its life cycle within one year
- awn
- a bristle-like projection, common on grass seedheads
- biodiversity
- refers to the range of different plant and/or animal species in an area
- bipinnate
- leaves where the leaflets attached to the central stem bear leaflets themselves
- catkin
- the flower (usually of one sex) of willows, poplars and some other species
- compound
- leaves that are divided into smaller units (called leaflets) on the same stalk
- corm
- a swollen bulb-like underground stem from which a new plant grows
- crown
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- (n) the point where stems join roots
- (v) a method for removing certain plants
- drey
- the nest of a ringtail possum
- ecosystem
- a community of living organisms interacting with each other and their environment
- exotic
- plants or animals not native to Australia
- herbaceous
- a plant that does not form woody tissue
- hybrid
- a plant that has parents of different species
- layer
- stems that grow roots when they touch the soil
- leaflet
- one of the separate segments of a compound leaf
- lobe
- a roundish division of a leaf
- margin
- the edge of a leaf or leaflet
- monoculture
- an area where only one species of plant grows
- node
- the point on the stem from which a leaf or leaves grow
- perennial
- a plant that lives for three or more years
- rhizome
- an underground stem which grows horizontally, producing roots and shoots
- sapwood
- the living tissue of a woody plant, lying between the bark and the heartwood
- spikelet
- a type of grass seedhead
- stolon
- a stem that grows along the ground, producing roots and shoots; a runner
- sucker
- new shoots growing from roots
- tuber
- a swollen underground stem or root from which a new plant grows
- urban runoff
- polluted water that runs off the hard surfaces of urban (including industrial) areas into bushland.
- vegetative reproduction, vegetative spread
- a plant spreading or reproducing from its own vegetative parts, such as rhizomes, stolons, tubers, suckers, not from seeds