| Albescent | Becoming white |
| Cordate | Heart shaped |
| Floriferous | Blooming freely |
| Glaucous | A grey-blue waxy bloom on the surface of leaves |
| Hybrid | The offspring resulting from crossing two genetically different parental forms |
| Lancelolate | Lance shaped |
| Lutescent | Becoming yellow |
| Melting Out | Scorching appears and then a hole through the leaf on some hostas having large areas of white variation |
| Opaque | Dull, the reverse of shiny |
| Ovate | Egg-shaped, broard end at base |
| Petiole | The stem or stalk of a leaf. In hostas this extends from the ground to the base of the leaf |
| Pruinose | Covered with a white, powdery substance, giving a frosted or dewy appearance |
| Rugose | Any leaf with an uneven surface; i.e. wrinkled, puckered, crinkled, ruffled, dimpled, seersuckered, and et el. |
| Scape | The stem that bears the flowers |
| Sport | A mutated form of the original plant ( often different foliage color than the "mother" plant ) |
| Spring Desiccation | Spring burn. Resulting in light brown patches on the foilage |
| Stoloniferous | A root stock that sends out horizontal stems from which new independent plants arise |
| Undulate | Wavy, either the leaf margin or the leaf is wavy |
| Viridescent | Turning green |
