complete flower
Americannoun
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A flower having all four floral parts: sepals, petals, stamens, and carpels.
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Compare incomplete flower See also perfect flower
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Figure 14.25 This image depicts the structure of a perfect and complete flower.
From Textbooks • Apr. 25, 2013
The fourth glume is a little longer than the third, lanceolate, acuminate, with infolded margins 5- or 6-nerved, paleate and enclosing a complete flower.
From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by Rangachari, K.
The flowers of the Cherry or Apple will show the four kinds of organs that belong to a complete flower.
From Trees of the Northern United States Their Study, Description and Determination by Apgar, A. C. (Austin Craig)
There is usually a complete flower in a spikelet and the glumes are membranous.
From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by Rangachari, K.
The complete flower is the lowest and the tendency for imperfection is in the upper flowers.
From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by Rangachari, K.
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