From Seed to Seed: A Pictorial Story Showing How a Bean Plant Grows: Part 1 The Developing Bean Plant Glossary
- axillary bud
- axils
- Cotyledon
The part of the embryo in the seed that provides nutrition for germination and will develop into the first leaf (or leaves).
- Floral anthesis
The period of flowering, beginning at the opening of the bud.
- Foral senescence
The wilting and shedding of the flowers.
- Hilum
The scar where the bean was attached to the seed pod.
- Hypocotyl
The part of the plant between the root and the cotyledons (unfoliate leaves)
- Leaflet
a part of a compound leaf (a compound leaf is one that has two or more sections called leaflets)
- Macrosclereids
Thick-walled dead cells often found in the seed coats of a plant.
- Morphology
The study of the forms of things.
- perlite
- Radicle
The primary root, the first part of the plant to appear outside the seed.
- Scanning electron microscope
A form of microscope that scans a surface with a beam of electrons and records the reflected form of an image.
- Seed coat
A protective outer layer of a seed
- Trifoliate leaf
A compound leaf with three leaflets.
- trifoliate leaves
- Unifoliate leaf
A single leaf. (Not compound).
- Unifoliate leaves
Single leaves. (Not compound).