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, medical , idioms , wikipedia . flower, name for the specialized part of a plant containing the reproductive organs, applied to angiosperms only. a flower may be thought of as a modified, short, compact branch bearing lateral appendages. like twigs, flowers develop from buds, and the basic floral parts
(sepal, petal, stamen, and carpel) are in actual fact greatly modified leaves. a typical flower is a concentric arrangement of these parts attached at their base to the receptacle, the tip of the stem. outermost is a whorl of leaflike green sepals (the calyx) encircling a whorl of usually showy, colored...
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