DEFINITION of 'Land Contract'. An agreement between a buyer and seller of property in which the buyer makes payments toward full ownership (as with a mortgage), but in a land contract, the title or deed is held by the owner until the full payment is made. land contract can be thought of as a lease with an option to buy. Certain states have more generous legal rights for land contract holders than others. As a result, the world of land contracts can be difficult to navigate.
Definition of Gesneriaceae. : a large family of tropical herbs or rarely woody plants (order Polemoniales) having chiefly opposite leaves and strongly zygomorphic flowers.
Gynoecium is most commonly used as a collective term for the parts of a flower that produce ovules and ultimately develop into the fruit and seeds. The gynoecium is the innermost whorl of pistils in a flower and is typically surrounded by the pollen-producing reproductive organs, the stamens, collectively called the androecium. The gynoecium is often referred to as the female portion of the flower, although rather than directly producing female gametes, the gynoecium produces megaspores, each