Here I trace the origin and evolution of the word clone, from its first use as an agricultural and botanical term in 1903, to its widespread adoption in biology, adaptation by artists, and contemporary use in hematology-oncology.
All Adansonia species develop large, ovoid or spherical fruits with a woody pericarp, commonly known as capsules; the botanical term is more precisely amphisarcum: a simple, indehiscent fruit with a pericarp differentiated externally into a dry crust and internally into one or more fleshy layers (Stuppy 2004).
"Phylum" and "division" represent the same level of organization; the former is the zoological term, the latter is the botanical term.
He does so with works from his new "Apogamy Pods" series of transfer paintings, using the botanical term for asexual reproduction among ferns as he empties out his art to such an extent that his stark "White Paintings" from the 1950's come to mind.
The plant, known by the botanical term catha edulis forskal, is grown, sold and used legally in that country at the southern tip of the Arabian Peninsula.
He took a broad interest in botany; he maintained a herbarium and rearranged the botanical terms and diagnoses in Flora badensis alsatica, written by his friend, botanist Karl Christian Gmelin.
In botanical terms, Ms. Gordon would classify as willowy, with rufous hair and a slightly maculate complexion.
In botanical terms, tumbleweeds are not dead, exactly, nor are they useless detritus: A tumbleweed is a plant's way of propagating, a satellite full of seeds that pops off from the root and tumbles on to a bright future (think of blowing wishes on a white-headed dandelion, the seeds parachuting in the wind).
Nomenclature books, which are volumes that list botanical terms, were brandished, and occasionally heated arguments ensued.
