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The ovary is inferior and the fruit is a small ( 5 – 25 mm ) dark reddish green, deep red, or deep purple, edible berry, containing numerous very small seeds.
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The ovary is inferior with often a thin tubular portion at its apex formed by joined tepals or the tip of the ovary.
In the narrowest definition, the Amaryllidaceae sensu stricto is characterized by an umbellate inflorescence with an inferior ovary.
The ovary is superior.
* Ovary: The end of the mammal oviduct nearest to the ovary is the infundibulum of uterine tube
The ER is expressed in specific tissues including the ovary, uterus and breast.
The ovary is an ovum-producing reproductive organ, often found in pairs as part of the vertebrate female reproductive system.
The ovary ( for a given side ) is located in the lateral wall of the pelvis in a region called the ovarian fossa.
The part of the broad ligament of the uterus that covers the ovary is known as the mesovarium.
Thus, the ovary is the only organ in the human body which is totally invaginated into the peritonium, making it the only intraperitoneal organ ( not to be confused with interperitoneal ).
In birds, reptiles, and monotremes, the egg is relatively large, filling the follicle, and distorting the shape of the ovary at maturity.
Amphibians and reptiles have no ovarian medulla ; the central part of the ovary is a hollow, lymph-filled space.
The ovary of teleosts is also often hollow, but in this case, the eggs are shed into the cavity, which opens into the oviduct.
In most birds and in platypuses, the right ovary never matures, so that only the left is functional.
In the primitive jawless fish, and some teleosts, there is only one ovary, formed by the fusion of the paired organs in the embryo.
The procedure is to take a part of the ovary and carry out slow freezing before storing it in liquid nitrogen whilst therapy is undertaken.
The ovary is superior with basal or free-central placentation.
The ovary is superior.
The ovary is inferior and topped by two nectaries, the stigma is funnel-shaped.
An individual that produces both types of gametes is called hermaphrodite ( a name applicable also to people with one testis and one ovary ).
The ovary is three-celled, ripening into a three-celled capsule.
A recent finding indicates that ovary development and maintenance is an active process, regulated by the expression of a " pro-female " gene, FOXL2.
ovary and inferior
The individual flowers are blue, shortly tubular, with an inferior ovary.
They are herbaceous perennials with bulbs, and can be identified by their rather fleshy leaves, usually large and attractive flowers, with six stamens and an inferior ovary.
The gynoecium consists of two carpels fused into a single, bicarpellate pistil with an inferior ovary.
The plants are monoecious, with unisexual male and female flowers occurring separately on the same plant, the male containing numerous stamens, the female having a large inferior ovary and two to four branched or twisted stigmas.
The pepo, derived from an inferior ovary, is characteristic of the squash family ( Cucurbitaceae ).
In botanical language, a berry is a simple fruit having seeds and pulp produced from a single ovary ; the ovary can be inferior or superior.
Berries which develop from an inferior ovary are sometimes termed epigynous berries or false berries, as opposed to true berries which develop from a superior ovary.
The fruit develops from an inferior ovary, and is a berry ; it is usually brightly coloured, often being red or bluish with purple juice.
The fruit of plants in this group develops from an inferior ovary, and is therefore known, botanically, as a false berry.
In some cases, it can be so deep, with such a narrow top, that the flower can appear to have an inferior ovary.
The pistil has a one-celled inferior ovary, the style thick, short, light green, and the stigma broad ; there is one ovule in each cell.
The ovary is inferior.
The fruit of the family Asteraceae is also so similar to an achene that it is often considered to be one, although it derives from a compound inferior ovary ( with one locule ).
The shriveled remains of the sepals, style and stamens can sometimes be seen at the end of a pome opposite the stem, and the ovary is therefore often described as inferior in these flowers.
Another character that distinguish Iridaceae from most other members of the Asparagales is its inferior ovary, the ovary being superior in most families, with the exception of Orchidaceae and Amaryllidaceae.
The characters that differentiate Iridaceae, however, are its three stamens ( related families such as Alliaceae and Amaryllidaceae have six ) and an inferior ovary.
The ovary is typically superior, infrequently semi-inferior, or rarely inferior.
ovary and fruit
* Samara ( fruit ) or key, a type of fruit in which a flattened wing of fibrous, papery tissue develops from the ovary wall
The ovule in turn develops into a seed and in many cases the plant ovary develops into a fruit to facilitate the dispersal of the seeds.
The botanical definition of a berry is a fleshy fruit produced from a single ovary.
The berry is the most common type of fleshy fruit in which the entire ovary wall ripens into an edible pericarp.
The floral tube, formed from the basal part of the sepals, petals and stamens can become fleshy at maturity and is united with the ovary to form the fruit.
With " true " fruit, the flower would be lost as the ovaries expanded from within, but in the case of epigynous " berries " the fruit comes from under the ovary, and the flower is left on the tip.
Continued stalk growth then pushes the ovary underground where the mature fruit develops into a legume pod, the peanut – a classical example of geocarpy.
Calyx, hairy, four-lobed ; lobes thick, concave, investing the ovary, and inclosing the fruit.
Peapods are botanically a fruit, since they contain seeds developed from the ovary of a ( pea ) flower.
The fruit can be a capsule, berry, or nut, all containing only two seeds per one locule ( one ovule / ovary ).
A samara is a type of fruit in which a flattened wing of fibrous, papery tissue develops from the ovary wall.
An accessory fruit ( sometimes called false fruit, spurious fruit, or pseudocarp ) is a fruit in which some of the flesh is derived not from the ovary but from some adjacent tissue exterior to the carpel.
Most seeds come from fruits, and the seeds are free of the fruit, unlike nuts such as hazelnuts, hickories, chestnuts and acorns, which have a stony fruit wall and originate from a compound ovary.
A nut in botany is a simple dry fruit with one seed ( rarely two ) in which the ovary wall becomes very hard ( stony or woody ) at maturity, and where the seed remains attached or fused with the ovary wall.
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