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Agave

A genus of plants (order Amaryllidaceae) of which the chief species is the maguey or century plant (A. Americana), wrongly called Aloe. It is from ten to seventy years, according to climate, in attaining maturity, when it produces a gigantic flower stem, sometimes forty feet in height, and perishes. The fermented juice is the pulque of the Mexicans; distilled, it yields mescal. A strong thread and a tough paper are made from the leaves, and the wood has many uses.

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Dracaena 76% connected

A genus of liliaceous plants with woody stems and funnel-shaped flowers.

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Maguey 76% connected

The century plant, a species of Agave (A. Americana). See Agave.

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plants having seeds in a closed ovary

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

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

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

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

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

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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…

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Ash noun · 78% connection

A genus of trees of the Olive family, having opposite pinnate leaves, many of the species furnishing valuable timber, as the European…

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Asparagus noun · 78% connection

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Avoset noun · 78% connection

A grallatorial bird, of the genus Recurvirostra; the scooper. The bill is long and bend upward toward the tip. The American species is…

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Badger noun · 78% connection

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Brooklime noun · 78% connection

A plant (Veronica Beccabunga), with flowers, usually blue, in axillary racemes. The American species is V. Americana.

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Broom rape unknown · 78% connection

A genus (Orobanche) of parasitic plants of Europe and Asia. They are destitute of chlorophyll, have scales instead of leaves, and spik…

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Composite verb · 78% connection

Belonging to a certain order which is composed of the Ionic order grafted upon the Corinthian. It is called also the Roman or the Ital…

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Creeper noun · 78% connection

A small bird of the genus Certhia, allied to the wrens. The brown or common European creeper is C. familiaris, a variety of which (var…

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Dahlia noun · 78% connection

A genus of plants native to Mexico and Central America, of the order Compositae; also, any plant or flower of the genus. The numerous…

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Elm noun · 78% connection

A tree of the genus Ulmus, of several species, much used as a shade tree, particularly in America. The English elm is Ulmus campestris…

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Garfish noun · 78% connection

One of several species of similar fishes of the genus Tylosurus, of which one species (T. marinus) is common on the Atlantic coast. T.…

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