The Three Sisters - 2023-2024 Common Read - Braiding Sweetgrass

The Three Sisters are beans, squash and corn.

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Keywords

Circumnutation: when the growing parts of plants form spirals or curves. (YA)

Curvilinear: consisting of or bounded by curved lines : represented by a curved line. (MW)

Endosperm: the part of the plant seed that provides food for the embryo. (OL)

Enzymes: chemical substances in plants that help cause a natural process. (YA)

Germinate: to cause to sprout or develop. (YA)

Manifest: to make evident or certain by showing or displaying. (MW)

Monocot: an overgrown grass whose roots are fine and fibrous with a single (mono) embryonic leaf. (YA)

Rhizobium: soil bacteria that attaches to the root system of legumes and change nitrogen into a form that the plant can use. (YA)

Scabrous: rough to the touch. (MW)

Symbiosis: when two kinds of living organisms live in an association that is beneficial for both. (YA)

Taproot: primary root that grows vertically downward and gives off small lateral roots. (MW)

Topography: the configuration of a surface including its relief and the position of its natural and man-made features. (MW)

Transcend: to rise above or go beyond the limits of. (MW)

Turgid: being in a state of distension :swollen. (MW)