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e·na·tion  (-nshn)

n. Botany

An outgrowth on the surface of an organ.

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enation

the maternal relationship.

See also: Relationship

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Noun	1.	enation - line of descent traced through the maternal side of the family cognation, matrilineage unilateral descent - line of descent traced through one side of the family
	2.	enation - a natural projection or outgrowth from a plant body or organ plant process appendage, outgrowth, process - a natural prolongation or projection from a part of an organism either animal or plant; "a bony process" podetium - an organ or body resembling a stalk; especially the outgrowth of the thallus of certain lichens on which the ascocarp is borne peristome - (botany) fringe of toothlike appendages surrounding the mouth of a moss capsule haustorium - a root-like attachment in parasitic plants that penetrates and obtains food from the host apophysis - (botany) a natural swelling or enlargement: at the base of the stalk or seta in certain mosses or on the cone scale of certain conifers callus - (botany) an isolated thickening of tissue, especially a stiff protuberance on the lip of an orchid blister - (botany) a swelling on a plant similar to that on the skin nodule, tubercle - small rounded wartlike protuberance on a plant spur - tubular extension at the base of the corolla in some flowers aculeus - a stiff sharp-pointed plant process acumen - a tapering point fuzz, tomentum, hair - filamentous hairlike growth on a plant; "peach fuzz" leaf node, node - (botany) the small swelling that is the part of a plant stem from which one or more leaves emerge burl - a large rounded outgrowth on the trunk or branch of a tree