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
He was not tall, and he was covered with sections of bloom; but as he turned he displayed one complete flower embracing his whole back, a tropical efflorescence, brilliant with many hues.
From Vesty of the Basins by Greene, Sarah P. McLean
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.
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 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.
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