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abortive
Defective or barren. Describes especially but not exclusively reproductive structures.
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Abortive Only partially developed, such as incomplete seed or frost-nipped bud.
Abscission The falling of leaf, twig-tip, etc, from a clean-cut scar, by a self-healing wound.
Accent plant Attention-getting plant due to its color or form.
but these are placed in the vicinity of the females, and are absolutely necessary, by the dispersion of their farina, to impregnate the female blossom; the fruit of which will not otherwise, swell to its full size and the seeds will be abortive.
 See also: Care, Grow, Stigma, Water, Natural
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