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Acacia
noun · 78% connection
A genus of leguminous trees and shrubs. Nearly 300 species are Australian or Polynesian, and have terete or vertically compressed leaf…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, great, trees, related, bombax.
Analogue
noun · 78% connection
A species or genus in one country closely related to a species of the same genus, or a genus of the same group, in another: such speci…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, great, trees, related, bombax.
Baobab
noun · 78% connection
A gigantic African tree (Adansonia digitata), also naturalized in India. See Adansonia.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, great, trees, related, bombax.
Bombax
noun · 78% connection
A genus of trees, called also the silkcotton tree; also, a tree of the genus Bombax.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, great, trees, related, bombax.
Caoutchouc
noun · 78% connection
A tenacious, elastic, gummy substance obtained from the milky sap of several plants of tropical South America (esp. the euphorbiaceous…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, great, trees, related, bombax.
Capuchin
noun · 78% connection
A long-tailed South American monkey (Cabus capucinus), having the forehead naked and wrinkled, with the hair on the crown reflexed and…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, great, trees, related, bombax.
Cheetah
noun · 78% connection
A species of leopard (Cynaelurus jubatus) tamed and used for hunting in India. The woolly cheetah of South Africa is C. laneus.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, great, trees, related, bombax.
Couscous
noun · 78% connection
A kind of food used by the natives of Western Africa, made of millet flour with flesh, and leaves of the baobab; -- called also lalo.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, great, trees, related, bombax.
Crocodile
noun · 78% connection
A large reptile of the genus Crocodilus, of several species. They grow to the length of sixteen or eighteen feet, and inhabit the larg…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, great, trees, related, bombax.
Dicynodont
noun · 78% connection
One of a group of extinct reptiles having the jaws armed with a horny beak, as in turtles, and in the genus Dicynodon, supporting also…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, great, trees, related, bombax.
Gerbille
noun · 78% connection
One of several species of small, jumping, murine rodents, of the genus Gerbillus. In their leaping powers they resemble the jerboa. Th…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, great, trees, related, bombax.
Goslet
noun · 78% connection
One of several species of pygmy geese, of the genus Nettepus. They are about the size of a teal, and inhabit Africa, India, and Austra…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, great, trees, related, bombax.
Grasshopper
noun · 78% connection
Any jumping, orthopterous insect, of the families Acrididae and Locustidae. The species and genera are very numerous. The former famil…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, great, trees, related, bombax.
Hibiscus
noun · 78% connection
A genus of plants (herbs, shrubs, or trees), some species of which have large, showy flowers. Some species are cultivated in India for…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, great, trees, related, bombax.
Hippopotamus
noun · 78% connection
A large, amphibious, herbivorous mammal (Hippopotamus amphibius), common in the rivers of Africa. It is allied to the hogs, and has a…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, great, trees, related, bombax.
Hyrax
noun · 78% connection
Any animal of the genus Hyrax, of which about four species are known. They constitute the order Hyracoidea. The best known species are…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, great, trees, related, bombax.
Ichneumon
noun · 78% connection
Any carnivorous mammal of the genus Herpestes, and family Viverridae. Numerous species are found in Asia and Africa. The Egyptian spec…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, great, trees, related, bombax.
Jungle
noun · 78% connection
A dense growth of brushwood, grasses, reeds, vines, etc.; an almost impenetrable thicket of trees, canes, and reedy vegetation, as in…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, great, trees, related, bombax.