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The Kew Plant glossary : an illustrated dictionary of plant terms / Henk J. Beentje ; illustrations by Juliet Williamson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Beentje, Henk, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Plants.
- Plants--Identification.
- Botany--Dictionaries.
- Botany.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (197 pages) : illustrations
- Edition:
- Second edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Richmond, Surrey, England : Kew Publishing, 2016.
- Summary:
- If asked to describe a plant, many of us would have to resort to basic descriptors such as vague shapes or simple colors.But for those who work and write in the plant world, there are thousands of terms available for crafting the perfect characterization.A pear's shape can be called pyriform , while lemon's form is prolate.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Introduction
- Acknowledgements
- Bibliography and websites used
- Glossary
- Symbols
- Suffixes
- Prefixes
- Abbreviations
- Botanical terms (incorporating 716 blocks with over 730 images)
- Grouped terms
- Vegetation terms
- Colour terms.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-84246-605-4
- OCLC:
- 991542720
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