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.
1 Cleistogamy: is self-pollination that occurs before the flower opens. 2  The pollen is released from the anther within the flower or the pollen on the anther grows a tube down the style to the ovules. 3  It is a type of sexual breeding, in contrast to asexual systems such as apomixis. Plants that can pollinate themselves and produce viable offspring are called self-fertile. 2  Plants that cannot fertilize themselves are called self-sterile, a condition which mandates cross pollination for the production of offspring. 3  Cleistogamy: is self-pollination that occurs before the flower opens.