Plants Crossword #3
Across
- 4. rootlike subterranean stem, commonly horizontal in position, that usually produces roots below and sends up shoots progressively from the upper surface
- 5. plant having its seeds enclosed in an ovary; a flowering plant
- 7. transfer of pollen from the anther to the stigma
- 8. of the rootlike filaments by which the plant is attached to the substratum,rootlike
- 9. edible part of a plant developed from a flower, with any accessory tissues, as the peach, mulberry, or banana
Down
- 1. more or less conical multiple fruit of the pine, fir, etc., consisting of overlapping or valvate scales bearing naked ovules or seeds; a strobile
- 2. outer integument of a seed
- 3. tissue in plants; undifferentiated, growing, actively dividing cells
- 6. vascular plant having seeds that are not enclosed in an ovary; a conifer or cycad
- 7. protoplasmic tube that is extruded from a germinating pollen grain and grows toward the ovule
- 9. often large, finely divided leaf, especially as applied to the ferns and certain palms