Botanical Words Alphabetical List - GL

GLABRESCENT: Becoming glabrous.

GLABROUS: Hairless; smooth. Also glabrate.

GLADIATE: Sword-shaped; ensiform.

GLAND: Any secreting organs of plants or of gland-like bodies.

GLANDULAR: 1. Resembling or pertaining to a gland. 2. Bearing glands. 3. Derived from glands. Also glandulous.

GLANS: A nut seated in or enclosed by an involucre.

GLAUCESCENT: Slightly glaucous.

GLAUCOUS: 1. Blue-green, blue-gray, gray, or pale yellow-green color. 2. Having a waxy or powdery, bluish-white or bluish-gray bloom that can be rubbed off (i.e. glaucous plums or grapes).

GLEY SOIL: A layer of soil that has turned gray because of lack of oxygen and excessive water.

GLOBOSE: Spherical, or nearly so.

GLOCHIDIATE: Barbed at the tip. Also glochideous.

GLOCHIDS: Barbed bristly hairs or spines, often very fine and easily detached, on an Opuntia cactus.

GLOMERATE: Compactly clustered.

GLOMERULATE: Arranged in small, compact clusters. Also glomerulose.

GLOMERULE: A compact flower cluster that forms a head, as in the flowering Dogwood, Cornus florida.

GLUMACEOUS: Glume-like; having glumes; chaffy.

GLUME: A chaffy bract as in the Gramineae (grass family) and related plants; especially an empty bract at the base of a grass spikelet.

GLUMIFEROUS: Having glumes.

GLUTINOUS: Sticky.

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