winged seed
Maple tree offspring
A winged seed is a seed with a thin, flat extension that catches air, allowing it to travel farther from the parent plant.
Maple seeds with their helicopter-like wings are the familiar example.
The wing may be papery or membranous: Winged seeds spiraled down from the elm tree.
- samaraWinged botanical dispersal unit
- mapleSap-yielding hardwood tree
- maple keyWinged seed pod
- helicopterRotary-wing aircraft
- spinningRevolving around an axis
flutter · drift · airborne · pod · dispersal · propeller · twirling · glide · cottonwood · dandelion · elm · ash · sycamore · breeze · autumn · falling · whirling · papery
- tree seedsacorn, acorns, beechnut, walnut, chestnut
- propagulesspores, spore, bulbs, cuttings, tubers
- autumn leavesmaple leaf, maple leaves, oak leaf, fall colors, autumn leaves
- conifer partsneedle, needles, cone, pine cone, pinecone
- fruit anatomypericarp, endocarp, flesh, pulp, skin
- seed vesselspod, fruit, capsule, samara, cone