plant organ

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plant organ - a functional and structural unit of a plant or fungus reproductive structure - the parts of a plant involved in its reproduction septum - a partition or wall especially in an ovary honey gland, nectary - a gland (often a protuberance or depression) that secretes nectar archegonium - a female sex organ occurring in mosses, ferns, and most gymnosperms calyx tube, floral cup, hypanthium - the cuplike or ringlike or tubular structure of a flower which bears the sepals and stamens and calyx (as in Rosaceae) chlamys, floral envelope, perianth, perigone, perigonium - collective term for the outer parts of a flower consisting of the calyx and corolla and enclosing the stamens and pistils magic mushroom, mescal button, sacred mushroom - the button-shaped top of the mescal cactus; a source of psilocybin cup - cup-shaped plant organ hypobasidium - special cell constituting the base of the basidium in various fungi especially of the order Tremellales galea - an organ shaped like a helmet; usually a vaulted and enlarged petal as in Aconitum lamella, gill - any of the radiating leaflike spore-producing structures on the underside of the cap of a mushroom or similar fungus plant part, plant structure - any part of a plant or fungus fruiting body - an organ specialized for producing spores root - (botany) the usually underground organ that lacks buds or leaves or nodes; absorbs water and mineral salts; usually it anchors the plant to the ground root cap - thimble-shaped mass of cells covering and protecting the growing tip of a root root hair - thin hairlike outgrowth of an epidermal cell just behind the tip; absorbs nutrients from the soil stolon, offset, runner - a horizontal branch from the base of plant that produces new plants from buds at its tips stalk, stem - a slender or elongated structure that supports a plant or fungus or a plant part or plant organ capitulum, head - a dense cluster of flowers or foliage; "a head of cauliflower"; "a head of lettuce" foliage, leaf, leafage - the main organ of photosynthesis and transpiration in higher plants sprout - any new growth of a plant such as a new branch or a bud