chupon
Any of several South American trees (Bumelia obtusifolia or Gustavia yaracuyensis)

chupons
plural of chupon

chuquiragua
A plant, Chuquiraga insignis.

chuquiraguas
plural of chuquiragua

ciboa
A type of palm tree with large fronds, Borassus aethiopicum, growing in West Africa.

cibol
A perennial onion plant, Allium fistulosum, commonly called Welsh onion.

cibols
plural of cibol

ciboul
Alternative form of cibol.

ciboule
Alternative form of cibol.

ciboules
plural of ciboule

cibouls
plural of ciboul

cinncassiol
Any of a group of sesquiterpenoids found in certain plants.

cippolini
A kind of small sweet onion.

cippolinis
plural of cippolini

circumnutation
The successive bowing or bending in different directions of the growing tip of the stem of many plants, especially seen in climbing plants.

circumnutations
plural of circumnutation

ciricote
Alternative spelling of ziricote.

ciruela
The plant Spondias purpurea.

citronella
A tropical Asian grass, Cymbopogon nardus, that has citrus-scented leaves.
An essential oil obtained from this plant, often used as an insect repellent.

citronellas
plural of citronella

citronwood
The wood of the citron tree (Citrus medica).

cladode
A flattened organ arising from the stem of a plant, often replacing the leaves in photosynthetic function, as leaves in such plants (such as asparagus or butcher's broom) are typically reduced to scales.
A generally flattened shoot as of certain cactuses.

cladophleboid
Any fern of the genus Cladophlebis.

cladophore
Any green alga of the order Cladophorales.

cladophores
plural of cladophore

cladoptoses
plural of cladoptosis

cladoptosis
The regular shedding of branches by a plant, for clonal reproduction or growth management, or in response to stress.

cladoxylalean
A plant of the genus Cladoxylon.

cladoxylaleans
plural of cladoxylalean

clapwort
A North American herb (Conopholis americana) that is parasitic on the roots of oak

claytonia
Any plant in the taxonomic genus Claytonia.

claytonias
plural of claytonia

cleistogam
Any plant exhibiting cleistogamy.

cleistogams
plural of cleistogam

cleistogene
A cleistogamous flower or plant

clematis
Any plant of the genus Clematis, vigorous climbing lianas found throughout the temperate zones.

clematises
plural of clematis

cleome
Any flowering plant in the genus Cleome.

cleomes
plural of cleome

clerodendrin
Any of a group of bitter diterpenoids present in plants of the genus Clerodendrum

clerodendrins
plural of clerodendrin

clianthus
Any plant of the genus Clianthus.

clianthuses
plural of clianthus

cliffbrake
Any fern in the genus Pellaea.

cliffrose
Any of several shrubs in the former genus Cowania (now part of Purshia) in the family Rosaceae, native to the western US and northern Mexico.

cliffroses
plural of cliffrose

clinandria
plural of clinandrium

clinandrium
An area at the tip of the column of orchid flowers, beneath the anthers.

clinanthia
plural of clinanthium

clinanthium
The receptacle of the flowers in a composite plant;

clinia
plural of clinium

clinium
clinanthium

cliniums
plural of clinium

clistogene
Alternative form of cleistogene.

clistogenes
plural of clistogene

clitoria
Any plant of the genus Clitoria.

clitorias
plural of clitoria

clivers
Galium aparine, the plant cleavers.

clivia
Any plant of the genus Clivia, native to southern Africa.

clivias
plural of clivia

clote
The common burdock; the clotbur.
The yellow waterlily.

clover
A plant of the genus Trifolium with leaves usually divided into three (rarely four) leaflets and with white or red flowers.
The second Lenormand card, representing hope, optimism and short-term luck.

clovetree
The plant that produces cloves

clovewort
Clove pink, which has clove-scented flowers
Any plant of the family Caryophyllaceae.
Avens, which has clove-scented roots

cloveworts
plural of clovewort

club moss
Any of various simple microphyllous vascular plants, of the family Lycopodiaceae, that resemble mosses and produce spores.

club mosses
plural of club moss

club-moss
Alternative spelling of club moss.

clubgrass
A Eurasian and North African grass, Corynephorus canescens.
An Australian grass, Neurachne alopecuroides
Clover.
Several sedges in Scirpus and related genera.

clubmoss
Alternative spelling of club moss.

clubmosses
plural of clubmoss

clyack
Completion of the harvest season, harvesting the last sheaf of grain.

coalplex
A proposed form of industrial plant that generates various useful substances from coal and then uses them in further production processes.

coalplexes
plural of coalplex

cocalero
A grower of coca leaves in Peru or Bolivia.

cocaleros
plural of cocalero

cocash
Symphyotrichum puniceum, red-stemmed aster, the roots of which were formerly used medicinally.

cocillana
An expectorant made from the dried bark of the tree Guarea rusbyi

cockshead
A leguminous herb, Onobrychis caput-galli, with small spiny-crested pods.

cocksheads
plural of cockshead

coclaurine
A nicotinic acetylcholine receptor antagonist isolated from various plant sources.

cocoawood
Alternative form of cocowood.

cocowood
The hard wood of the Indian tree Aporosa octandra.
Wood of the coconut palm (Cocos nucifera); coconut timber.

cocowoods
plural of cocowood

coenomegaspore
A megaspore that has four nuclei formed by meiosis

coenomegaspores
plural of coenomegaspore

coffeeberries
plural of coffeeberry

coffeeberry
A shrub with glossy green leaves and bright red fruits that look like those of the coffee tree, native to the far western edge of North America, from Oregon to Baja California, Frangula californica

cogen
cogeneration; a combination heating plant and power generator.

cogenerator
A combined heating plant and power generator.

cogenerators
plural of cogenerator

cogens
plural of cogen

coicopihue
Philesia magellanica, a Chilean shrub.

cokeries
plural of cokery

cokery
An industrial plant for processing coke.

coleoptile
A pointed sheath that protects the emerging shoot in monocotyledons such as oats and grasses.

coleorhiza
A sheath-like structure found in a monocotyledon plant seed that acts as a protective covering enclosing the radicle.

coleorhizae
plural of coleorhiza

coleorrhiza
Alternative form of coleorhiza.

coleorrhizae
plural of coleorrhiza

colewort
A plant of the genus Brassica; now specifically, a Brassica plant without a head used for food, such as kale.

coleworts
plural of colewort

colitas
plural of colita

coloquintida
Colocynth, a viny plant bearing extremely bitter fruit.

coloquintidas
plural of coloquintida

coltstail
A plant of the species Erigeron canadensis.

colwort
Obsolete spelling of colewort.

colworts
plural of colwort

combalenga
Cucurbita pepo, various kinds of pumpkin or squash.

combalengas
plural of combalenga

comfortroot
Hibiscus aculeatus, a flower native to the Southeastern US.

comfortroots
plural of comfortroot

commelinoid
Any flowering plant of the subfamily Commelinoideae

commelinoids
plural of commelinoid

conidendrin
The plant lignan (3aR,4S,9aR)-3a,4,9,9a-tetrahydro-6-hydroxy-4-(4-hydroxy-3-methoxyphenyl)-7-methoxynaphtho[2,3-c]furan-1(3H)-one

coniferophyte
conifer

coniferophytes
plural of coniferophyte

conilon
Any coffee plant of the species of (Coffea canephora, syn. Coffea robusta), drought-tolerant, primarily grown in Brazil.

conipherophytan
Any conifer of the former division Coniferophyta (now Pinophyta)

conipherophytans
plural of conipherophytan

conjunctoria
plural of conjunctorium

conjunctorium
The operculum of a moss.

contrahierba
Alternative form of contrayerva.

contrayerva
Dorstenia contrajerva, a South American plant whose aromatic root is sometimes used in medicine as a gentle stimulant and tonic.
The root of the plant.

contrayervas
plural of contrayerva

coojong
Acacia saligna, an Australian shrub wattle

coojongs
plural of coojong

cooksonioid
A plant having features like those of the extinct genus Cooksonia.

cooksonioids
plural of cooksonioid