Plants
Across
- 5. slender threadlike appendage of a climbing plant, often growing in a spiral form, that stretches out and twines around any suitable support
- 7. grass and grass-like flowering plants
- 10. a plant that has flowers and produces seeds enclosed within a carpel
- 11. a thin layer, plate, or scale of sedimentary rock, organic tissue, or other material
- 12. female reproductive organ of a flower, consisting of an ovary, a stigma, and usually a style
- 13. having or consisting of two lobes
- 14. relating to the branch of biology that deals with the form of living organisms, and with relationships between their structures
- 15. genus of tropical mangrove trees
Down
- 1. genus of thorny ornamental vines, bushes, and trees belonging to the four o' clock family
- 2. one of the two groups into which all the flowering plants were formerly divided
- 3. the part of the ovary of seed plants that contains the female germ cell and after fertilization becomes the seed.
- 4. the stamens of a flower collectively
- 6. female reproductive portion as well as the innermost whorl in a flower
- 8. the arrangement of petals and sepals in a flower bud before it opens
- 9. aerial root specialized for gaseous exchange