unifolate: having only one leaf, i.e. Charlie Brown's Christmas tree.
unijugate: only one pair of leaves
uniramous: only one branch
I had mentioned that the dictionary has scattered poetic descriptions of flowers and botany; different types of inflorescence, patterns of leaves, descriptions of trees, acorns... I finally obtained a copy of a book that I had been meaning to get for years, and it has turned out to be deeply spiritual and profound in its own way although it is nominally about architecture and the design of communities and living spaces. It is a trilogy, one of which is A Pattern Language by Christopher Alexander, Sara Ishikawa and Murray Silverstein, written in Berkeley, California, 1977. It is gentle and compassionate, with such chapter titles as "Windows overlooking life," "sitting circle," ""secret place," "filtered light," "things from your life." Incredibly gentle and insightful, like observing a zen rock garden.
Concerning flowers, it has a chapter called "Garden Growing Wild":
"People need contact with trees and plants and water. In some way, which is hard to express, people are able to be more whole in the presence of nature, are able to go deeper into themselves, and are somehow able to draw sustaining energy from the life of plants and trees and water."
"...the garden growing wild creates a more profound experience. The gardener is in the position of a good doctor, watching nature take its course, occasionally taking action, pruning, pulling out some species, only to give the garden more room to grow and become itself."
univalent: 'a chromosome lacking a synaptic mate'
hmmm...poetic...romantic
Upanishad [Sanskrit] one of the Vedic treatises
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