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Ландшафтные термины

A large cage, pavilion, or area enclosed by a ditch or mesh, for keeping birds or animals.

Temporary grafts

Термины кактусовода

A horticultural technique in which a slow-growing cactus is "grown on" a fast-growing rootstock, then is rooted and continues to live on its own roots.

Absorptive power

Термины кактусовода

The rate at which root hair cells absorb water and the nutrients dissolved in it.

Seedlings

Термины кактусовода

Young plants that are morphologically distinguished from juveniles by the presence of cotyledons and the absence of developed above-ground organs.

Seed germination rate

Термины кактусовода

The potential ability of seeds to germinate, expressed as the percentage of seeds that have germinated in relation to the number sown.

Bulbil

Специальные термины

A more or less formed vegetatively produced primordium of a future plant in the form of a small rosette of leaves or a small bulb. After natural separation from the parent plant it serves for vegetative reproduction. Bulbils may arise in i…

Forcing of plants

Термины кактусовода

Various methods of accelerating plant development or of bringing them out of dormancy into an active phase of growth.

Bindweed

Язык цветов - значения

In the language of flowers, beauty;

Habitus

Термины кактусовода

(From Latin habitus - appearance, outward aspect) the external appearance of an organism, the natural form of a plant.

Lawn

Ландшафтные термины

A man-made turf sward composed of perennial grasses. Depending on their purpose, lawns are classified as sports, special-purpose, and ornamental (parterre, common, and meadow).

Moorish lawn

Ландшафтные термины

A colorful flowering lawn. Formed from flowering plants or from their mixture with perennial grasses.

Galls

Термины кактусовода

Outgrowths on a plant that form as a result of the action of a parasite.

Halophyte

Термины кактусовода

(From Greek hals - salt and phyton - plant) - a plant that grows on highly saline soils.

Gametes

Термины кактусовода

(From Greek gametes - husband, gamete - wife) - sex cells, in the overwhelming majority of cases having a haploid set of chromosomes; during fertilization two gametes of opposite sexes fuse to form a diploid zygote.

Gardenia

Язык цветов - значения

In the language of flowers, secret love, you are beautiful;

Garúa

Термины кактусовода

Dense fog formations in the form of the finest drizzle on the Pacific coasts of Chile and Peru resulting from the temperature difference between the surrounding air and the cold coastal current.

Gaultheria

Язык цветов - значения

In the language of flowers, harmony;

Carnation

Язык цветов - значения

In the language of flowers: charm, feminine love, infatuation, honor and freedom, fidelity;

Carnation (white)

Язык цветов - значения

In the language of flowers, "Sweet and beloved", innocence, pure and tender love, good luck;

Carnation (yellow)

Язык цветов - значения

In the language of flowers "You avoid me", refusal;

Carnation (red)

Язык цветов - значения

In the language of flowers, admiration, deep love;

Carnation (striped)

Язык цветов - значения

In the language of flowers "NO!!!", refusal, "I will not be with you";

Carnation (purple)

Язык цветов - значения

In the language of flowers: inconstancy, caprice, and antipathy;

Carnation (pink)

Язык цветов - значения

In the language of flowers "I will never forget you", a symbol of maternal love;

Gel (gerl) foliage

Термины фиалковеда

A type of leaves with thick transparent (light-colored) veins against the darker remainder of the leaf blade, with a light star of veins forming in the center of the leaf (from the English 'girl').

Heliophytes

Термины кактусовода

Plants that prefer maximum sunlight.

Heliophobes

Термины кактусовода

Plants that prefer minimal sunlight.

Gene

Термины кактусовода

(From Greek genos - genus) a hereditary factor, a functionally indivisible unit of genetic material, a segment of a DNA molecule carrying information about the structure of the primary sequence of a somatic or enzymatic protein, transfer o…

Genesis

Термины кактусовода

Origin and development of species.

Generative zone

Термины кактусовода

Part of the stem bearing the organs of sexual reproduction.

Generative reproduction (sexual)

Термины кактусовода

Reproduction by means of seeds, seed reproduction of plants by sexual means as a result of cross-pollination by the transfer of pollen from the stamens of one flower to the stigma of a flower of another plant of the same species.

Generative organs of the plant

Термины кактусовода

(From lam. genero - I give birth, I produce) perform the function of sexual reproduction, otherwise - reproductive organs; in angiosperms (flowering plants) they are represented by female and male gametophytes. At present this concept is o…

Generative shoot

Термины кактусовода

Shoot bearing reproductive organs.

Genetics

Термины кактусовода

The science of heredity and variation of organisms.

Genetic memory

Термины кактусовода

The ability of plants transferred to a different habitat to retain, from generation to generation, certain characteristics of the annual development cycles of their ancestors in their homeland.

Genotype

Термины кактусовода

(From Greek genos - kin, origin and typos - imprint) the hereditary basis of an organism, the totality of all hereditary information (genes) of a given organism, determining the norm of its reaction under all possible environmental conditi…