cumbungi
Any of several Australian perennial herbs of the genus Typha, especially Typha domingensis and Typha orientalis.

cuminseed
The seed of the cumin plant.

cuminseeds
plural of cuminseed.

cummock
Alternative form of cammock (“crooked stick or staff”).

cummocks
plural of cummock

cupflower
Any plant of the genus Nierembergia.

cupflowers
plural of cupflower

cupgrass
Any plant of the genus Eriochloa

cuphea
Any plant of the genus Cuphea, including cigar plants.

cupheas
plural of cuphea

cupressacean
Any conifer of the family Cupressaceae.

cupressaceans
plural of cupressacean

cuprophyte
Any plant that tolerates or thrives in soil with a high level of copper

cuprophytes
plural of cuprophyte

curara
Alternative form of curare.

curare
A plant, Strychnos toxifera, formerly used in arrow poisons in South America due to its D-tubocurarine content.
Other South American plants with similar toxins that were also used in arrow poisons, mostly in the family Menispermaceae.
A substance containing the alkaloid D-tubocurarine, used historically as a muscle relaxant during surgery.

curares
plural of curare

curari
Alternative form of curare.

curcuma
Any plant of the genus Curcuma.

curcumas
plural of curcuma

curratow
Fiber from a plant of species Bromelia sagenaria.

cushag
The ragwort, the national flower of the Isle of Man, which has a large stalk.

cushags
plural of cushag

cusso
Alternative form of kousso.

cutinite
A liptinite maceral formed from terrestrial plant cuticles.

cutinites
plural of cutinite

cyanidiophyte
Any thermophilic red alga of class Cyanidiophyceae.

cyanidiophytes
plural of cyanidiophyte

cyathophyll
The bract-like structure of a euphorbia on which the involucre sits, usually but not always occurring in twos. They may sometimes be brightly coloured and confused with petals.

cyathophylls
plural of cyathophyll

cycad
Any plant of the division Cycadophyta, having a stout and woody trunk with a crown of large, hard and stiff, evergreen leaves.

cycadeoid
Any of the extinct plants of the order Bennettitales.

cycadeoids
plural of cycadeoid

cycadophyte
Any plant of the division Cycadophyta; a cycad.

cycadophytes
plural of cycadophyte

cyclocross
A form of bicycle racing consisting of many laps of a short course featuring pavement, wooded trails, grass, steep hills and obstacles and requiring the rider to quickly dismount, carry the bike whilst navigating the obstruction and remount in one motion.

cyclogen
An exogenous plant.

cyclogens
plural of cyclogen

cyclomorusin
A phytochemical found in mulberries.

cyclotide
Any of a group of oligopeptides, of plant origin, that have a cyclopeptide backbone bridged with multiple disulfide bonds

cyclotides
plural of cyclotide

cymbidium
Any orchid of the genus Cymbidium.

cymbidiums
plural of cymbidium

cyperane
Any of a certain class of sesquiterpenoids found in various plants.

cyperanes
plural of cyperane

cystocarp
A minute vesicle in some seaweeds, containing the reproductive carpospores.

cytisus
Any flowering plant in the genus Cytisus.

cytisuses
plural of cytisus

cytomixis
The migration of a nucleus from one plant cell to another

cytoplasmolysis
Synonym of plasmolysis.

cytorrhysis
The breakdown of a plant's cell wall due to loss of water

daddock
The rotten body of a tree.

daddocks
plural of daddock

dahlia
Any plant of the genus Dahlia, tuberous perennial flowering plants native to Mexico.

dahlias
plural of dahlia

daincha
Alternative form of dhaincha.

daisybush
Any plant of the genus Osteospermum.

daisybushes
plural of daisybush

dalbergichromene
A neoflavene found in the stem-bark and heartwood of Dalbergia sissoo.

dalbergioid
Any flowering plant of the tribe Dalbergieae or the clade Dalbergioids.

dalbergioids
plural of dalbergioid

dalbergiquinol
Any of various quinols that naturally occur in trees of the genus Dalbergia.

dalbergiquinols
plural of dalbergiquinol

danchi
Alternative form of dhaincha.

dandelion
Any of the several species of plant in the genus Taraxacum, characterised by yellow flower heads and notched, broad-ended leaves, especially the common dandelion (Taraxacum officinale).
The flower head or fruiting head of the dandelion plant.
A yellow colour, like that of the flower.

dasyclad
Any of the order Dasycladales of green algae.

dasycladacean
Any green alga of the family Dasycladaceae.

dasycladaceans
plural of dasycladacean

dasycladalean
Any green alga of the order Dasycladales

dasycladaleans
plural of dasycladalean

dasyclads
plural of dasyclad

datura
A plant of the genus Datura, known for its trumpet-shaped flowers and poisonous properties.

daturas
plural of datura

deadnettle
Any plant of a species in genus Lamium, which closely resembles the nettle, but does not possess stinging hairs.

decander
Any plant of the Decandria class

decanders
plural of decander

decoratives
plural of decorative

deerweed
The vetch Acmispon glaber

deetiolation
The conversion of the etioplasts and plastids of an etiolated plant into chloroplasts

deetiolations
plural of deetiolation

defoliation
The separation of ripened leaves from a branch or stem; the falling or shedding of the leaves.

defoliations
plural of defoliation

dehnstufe
The lengthened grade that appears in words of a certain root group, or stem group, in the course of vocalic variations.

denbinobin
A phenanthrenequinone present in the orchid Dendrobium

dendrification
The construction of a tree, typically from category data

dendrifications
plural of dendrification

dendro
dendrobium

dendrobium
Any plant of the genus Dendrobium.

dendrobiums
plural of dendrobium

dendrobranch
A kind of gill with two main branches which spit into more smaller tree-like branches

dendrobranchs
plural of dendrobranch

dendroflora
The flora that inhabits a tree

dendroglyph
Any of various symbols carved into tree trunks by native peoples.

dendroglyphs
plural of dendroglyph

dendrolite
A petrified or fossilised tree, plant, or part of a plant.

dendrolites
plural of dendrolite

dendronym
A name for a tree.

dendronyms
plural of dendronym

dendrophyte
any plant which grows in trees

dendrophytes
plural of dendrophyte

dendros
plural of dendro

deoxycylindrospermopsin
A natural product produced by blue-green algae related to cylindrospermopsin by conversion of a hydroxy group to hydrogen.

derrubone
A prenylated isoflavone found in the plant Derris robusta.

desmid
Any of about 5000 species of mostly unicellular freshwater green algae belonging to the order Desmidiales.

desmids
plural of desmid

desmotubule
A tube of appressed endoplasmic reticulum that runs between two adjacent plant cells

desmotubules
plural of desmotubule

desoxyhemigossypol
The phenolic phytoalexin 10-methyl-7-propan-2-yl-2-oxatricyclo[6.3.1.0^{4,12}]dodeca-1(11),4,6,8(12),9-pentaene-5,6-diol produced by the cotton plant (Gossypium)

dhaincha
The legume Sesbania bispinosa, native to Asia and North Africa.

dhoob
Alternative form of doob (“type of grass”).

dhunchee
Alternative form of dhaincha.

dhunchi
Alternative form of dhaincha.

dhupi
Any of various trees in the cypress family.

diamorphism
Alternative form of dimorphism.

diamorphisms
plural of diamorphism

dianthus
Any plant, such as carnations and pinks, of the genus Dianthus.

dianthuses
plural of dianthus

diascia
Any plant of the genus Diascia.

diascias
plural of diascia

diatomine
Synonym of phycoxanthin.

dicot
A plant whose seedlings have two cotyledons, a dicotyledon.

dicranid
Any bryopsid moss of the subclass Dicranidae, of the class Bryopsida.

dicranids
plural of dicranid

dictyochophyte
Any axodine alga

dictyochophytes
plural of dictyochophyte

dictyogen
A plant with net-veined leaves and monocotyledonous embryos, belonging to the class Dictyogenae, proposed by Lindley for the families Dioscoreaceae, Smilacaceae, Trilliaceae, etc.

dictyogens
plural of dictyogen

dictyota
Any brown alga of the genus Dictyota.

dictyotas
plural of dictyota