fruit. In botany, the ripened ovary with the attached parts. All flowering plants, therefore, produce fruits. The term is also used for the ripened reproductive bodies of flowerless plants.
fruit-dot, sorus. A collection or cluster of sporangia, as in ferns.
function. What a plant or an organ does; how it works.
gamete. A cell or nucleus that takes part in fertilization.
gametophyte. The stage of the plant (as the prothallus) that bears or produces the sex organs; sexual stage of the plant.
gamopetalous. Said of a corolla with the petals united.
gamosepalous. Said of a calyx with the sepals united.
generation. The entire life period of a plant.
geotropism. Turning toward the earth, as the action of the roots.
glomerule. A dense globular or oblong flower-cluster in which the upper or inner flowers open first.