Sterile Flower

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Sterile Flower

a unisexual, staminate (male) flower. The term is sometimes used to denote a bisexual flower that has remained barren as a result of underdevelopment or deformity. It is also used to designate a flower that for some reason was not pollinated and fertilized.

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No references found			Townsend, the partial florescence consists of a solitary hermaphrodite flower and a solitary small sterile flower formed by a large-celled, spongy, ventrally floccose cylinder tipped with small greenish processes present within and scarcely exceeding one bracteole, with the second bracteole empty (Townsend, 1993). The flowering unit in the synflorescences of Amaranthaceae by Acosta, Juan Manuel; Perreta, Mariel; Amsler, Alicia; Vegetti, Abelardo C. / The Botanical Review Each scale has two bractlets and three sterile flowers. Heal Your Body with Birch Bark and Leaves by Darrell Miller / Food/cooking/nutrition community Cultivated comfrey has sterile flowers, so I harvest while it''s flowering, cutting leaf and flower stalks near the ground and hanging them individually in a dark, well ventilated place to dry. Natural Health & Healing in the Wise Woman Tradition by Susun Weed / Health, general community			stereoscopy stereoselective reaction stereoselectivity stereospecific polymer Stereospecific Polymerization stereospecific synthesis stereospecificity Stereospondyli Stereotaxic Technique stereotaxis stereotomy stereotropism Stereotype Stereotype, Dynamic Stereotypy sterhydraulic steric anomaly steric effect Steric Hindrance stericooling Sterid Sterigma sterile sterile distribution sterile field Sterile Flower Sterility Sterilization sterilizer Sterkfontein Sterlegov, Dmitrii Sterlegov, Dmitrii Vasilevich Sterlet Sterling Sterling County Sterling Forest State Park Sterling Heights sterling silver Sterling Software Sterling Software, Inc. Sterling State Park Sterling, Bruce Sterlitamak Stern stern attack stern end bulb stern frame stern layer stern post stern tube stern wheel			Steril Steril sterilant sterilant sterilants sterilants sterile sterile sterile sterile Sterile A and HEAT Sterile Access System Sterile Alpha Motif Sterile Aqueous Solution Sterile Barrier Association Sterile Barrier System sterile cyst sterile cyst sterile cyst Sterile Distilled Water sterile distribution sterile eosinophilic folliculitis sterile eosinophilic folliculitis sterile eosinophilic folliculitis sterile eosinophilic pustulosis sterile field sterile field sterile field sterile field Sterile Fire Support Overlay Sterile Flower sterile infection sterile infiltrates sterile insect release method sterile insect release method sterile insect release method sterile insect release method sterile insect release method Sterile insect technique Sterile Investment Sterile Investments sterile labyrinthitis sterile labyrinthitis sterile labyrinthitis sterile meningitis Sterile Ophthalmic Preparation sterile pack sterile pack sterile pack sterile pack sterile panniculitis sterile panniculitis Sterile Processing and Distribution Sterile Processing Department Sterile Processing/Distribution sterile pyuria Sterile Rat Fecal Extract Sterile Services Department Sterile Speculum Exam sterile surgical pack sterile surgical pack

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