DEFINITIONS

Apetalous: a flower lacking petals

Deciduous: a plant that looses all of its leaves during part of the year (usually winter)

Dioecious: a plant species having male and female flowers on separate individual plants

Evergreen: a plant that has leaves on it all year (the opposite of deciduous)

Glabrous: no hairs

Monoecious: a plant species having male and female flowers on the same individual plant

Pubescent: with soft or downy hairs

Scurfy: loose scaly

Tomentose: densely covered with woolly hairs

Sessile leaf: no petiole