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Acorn

The fruit of the oak, being an oval nut growing in a woody cup or cupule.

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Fruit 76% connected

Whatever is produced for the nourishment or enjoyment of man or animals by the processes of vegetable growth, as corn, grass, cotton, flax, etc.; --…

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Acorn cup 70% connected

The involucre or cup in which the acorn is fixed.

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Cupule 70% connected

A cuplet or little cup, as of the acorn; the husk or bur of the filbert, chestnut, etc.

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Containing whole 1

Oak 70% connected

Any tree or shrub of the genus Quercus. The oaks have alternate leaves, often variously lobed, and staminate flowers in catkins. The fruit is a smoot…

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Angiosperm noun · 86% connection

plants having seeds in a closed ovary

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Annual noun · 86% connection

(botany) a plant that completes its entire life cycle within the space of a year

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Apophysis noun · 86% connection

(botany) a natural swelling or enlargement: at the base of the stalk or seta in certain mosses or on the cone scale of certain conifers

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Bast noun · 86% connection

(botany) tissue that conducts synthesized food substances (e.g., from leaves) to parts where needed; consists primarily of sieve tubes

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Biennial noun · 86% connection

(botany) a plant having a life cycle that normally takes two seasons from germination to death to complete; flowering biennials usuall…

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Blister noun · 86% connection

(botany) a swelling on a plant similar to that on the skin

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Callus noun · 86% connection

(botany) an isolated thickening of tissue, especially a stiff protuberance on the lip of an orchid

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Calyx noun · 86% connection

(botany) the whorl of sepals of a flower collectively forming the outer floral envelope or layer of the perianth enclosing and support…

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Coma noun · 86% connection

(botany) a usually terminal tuft of bracts (as in the pineapple) or tuft of hairs (especially on certain seeds)

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Corolla noun · 86% connection

(botany) the whorl of petals of a flower that collectively form an inner floral envelope or layer of the perianth; "we cultivate the f…

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Corona noun · 86% connection

(botany) the trumpet-shaped or cup-shaped outgrowth of the corolla of a daffodil or narcissus flower

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Embryo noun · 86% connection

(botany) a minute rudimentary plant contained within a seed or an archegonium

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Fern noun · 86% connection

any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward; reproduce by s…

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Flowering plant noun · 86% connection

plants having seeds in a closed ovary

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Germ tube noun · 86% connection

(botany) a slender tubular outgrowth from a spore in germination

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Leaf node noun · 86% connection

(botany) the small swelling that is the part of a plant stem from which one or more leaves emerge

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Ligule noun · 86% connection

(botany) any appendage to a plant that is shaped like a strap

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Lip noun · 86% connection

(botany) either of the two parts of a bilabiate corolla or calyx

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Aerial adjective · 78% connection

Growing, forming, or existing in the air, as opposed to growing or existing in earth or water, or underground; as, aerial rootlets, ae…

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Angiocarpous adjective · 78% connection

Having fruit inclosed within a covering that does not form a part of itself; as, the filbert covered by its husk, or the acorn seated…

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Apricot noun · 78% connection

A fruit allied to the plum, of an orange color, oval shape, and delicious taste; also, the tree (Prunus Armeniaca of Linnaeus) which b…

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Bamboo noun · 78% connection

woody tropical grass having hollow woody stems; mature canes used for construction and furniture

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Bark noun · 78% connection

tough protective covering of the woody stems and roots of trees and other woody plants

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Bittersweet noun · 78% connection

A climbing shrub, with oval coral-red berries (Solanum dulcamara); woody nightshade. The whole plant is poisonous, and has a taste at…

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Briar noun · 78% connection

a very prickly woody vine of the eastern United States growing in tangled masses having tough round stems with shiny leathery leaves a…

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Brier noun · 78% connection

a very prickly woody vine of the eastern United States growing in tangled masses having tough round stems with shiny leathery leaves a…

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Bullbrier noun · 78% connection

a very prickly woody vine of the eastern United States growing in tangled masses having tough round stems with shiny leathery leaves a…

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Christ's-thorn noun · 78% connection

thorny Eurasian shrub with dry woody winged fruit

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Cone noun · 78% connection

The fruit or strobile of the Coniferae, as of the pine, fir, cedar, and cypress. It is composed of woody scales, each one of which has…

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Cupuliferous adjective · 78% connection

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the family of plants of which the oak and the chestnut are examples, -- trees bearing a smooth, soli…

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