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- warty
- a surface covered with small round protuberances, especially in fruit, leaves, twigs and bark, see tuberculate.
- watershoot
- an erect strong-growing or epicormic shoot developing from near the base of a shrub or tree, but distinct from a sucker.
- weed
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loosely defined as a plant growing where it is not wanted; commonly associated with disrupted habitats
1. agricultural weed: a plant which taints produce or pollutes crops.
- 2. environmental weed: naturalised, exotic or ecologically 'out-of-balance' indigenous species outside the agricultural or garden context which, as a result of invasion, adversely affects the survival or regeneration of indigenous species in natural or partly natural vegetation communities (Carr, G.W., in Foreman & Walsh, 1993).
- wild
- originating from a known wild habitat (wilderness). See Wildlife.
- whorl
- a ring of organs borne at the same level on an axis, for example leaves, bracts or floral parts.
- wing
- 1. a membranous expansion of a fruit or seed which aids in dispersal, for instance on pine seeds.
- 2. a thin flange of tissue extending beyond the normal outline of a structure, e.g. on the column of some orchids, on stems, on petioles.
- 3. one of the two lateral petals of a flower of subfamily Faboideae of family Fabaceae, located between the adaxial standard (banner) petal and the two abaxial keel petals.
- woolly
- very densely covered with long, more or less matted or intertwined hairs, resembling sheep's wool.
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