plant organ
- noun
- Specialized
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órgano vegetal
- The flower is a vital plant organ that plays a key role in reproduction.
Examples
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For Goethe, the archetypal plant organ is basically the leaf, flat and open to the cosmos.
Blog text (30) -
To say that these plants escape, evade, or endure drought is not totally incorrect, but it is somewhat outmoded, as recent highly precise observations on the physiological performance of plant organs indicate.
Academic text (1998) -
Roots are an essential plant organ that absorb water and nutrients from the soil.
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The stem serves as a supporting plant organ that transports nutrients and water throughout the plant.
How Processed
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a distinct structural and functional part of a plant' is directly derivable from combining 'plant' (a photosynthetic organism) and 'organ' (a tissue-based part performing a function); the compound follows a standard noun+noun compositional pattern. This concept and labeling are cross-linguistically common (e.g., Spanish, French) and used in basic scientific vocabulary, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily understand it.
Etymology
Plant organ joins the words plant and organ; people used 'organ' for body parts that do a job, so they called parts of a plant—like leaves, roots, or stems—that do specific jobs by the same name. That's why plant organ means 'a part of a plant with a clear function'.