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The union of parts which are separate in other plants, or in younger states of the same plant.

Growing to or on something else. "An adnascent plant." Evelyn.

A genus of plants of the family Ranunculaceæ, containing the pheasaut's eye (Adonis autumnalis); -- named from Adonis, whose blood was fabled to have stained the flower.

Having arrived at maturity, or to full size and strength; matured; as, an adult person or plant; an adult ape; an adult age.

taneous in a country or district; not fully naturalized; adventive; -- applied to foreign plants.

Having opposite leaves, as plants which have the leaves so arranged on the stem.

of development of the Rusts or Brands, an order of fungi, formerly considered independent plants.

A genus of plants, called also hardgrass.

A secondary respiratory tissue or modified periderm, found in many aquatic plants and distinguished by the large intercellular spaces.

sed to growing or existing in earth or water, or underground; as, aërial rootlets, aërial plants. Gray.

Related to, or of the nature of, aërobies; as, aërobiotic plants, which live only when supplied with free oxygen.

A plant growing entirely in the air, and receiving its nourishment from it; an air plant or epiphyte.

n any way; to attach physically. Should they [caterpillars] affix them to the leaves of a plant improper for their food. Ray.

to Africa. African hemp, a fiber prerared from the leaves of the Sanseviera Guineensis, a plant found in Africa and India. -- African marigold, a tropical American plant (Tagetes erecta). -- African oak or African teak, a timber furnished by Oldfieldia Africana, used in ship building. African violet African-American,…

Not having visible organs of reproduction, as flowerless plants; agamous.

A genus of plants (order Amaryllidaceæ) of which the chief species is the maguey or century plant (A. Americana), wrongly called Aloe. It is from ten to seventy years, according to climate, in attaining maturity, when it produces a gigantic flower stem, sometimes forty feet in height, and perishes. The fermented juice…

A genus of plants, one species of which (A. Mexicanum) has lavender-blue flowers in dense clusters.

Wild; -- said of plants growing in the fields.

A genus of plants of the Rose family.

A sac or bladder full of air in an animal or plant; also an air hole in a casting.