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Amputate

To prune or lop off, as branches or tendrils.

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Pull 76% connected

To draw, or attempt to draw, toward one; to draw forcibly.

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Remove 76% connected

To move away from the position occupied; to cause to change place; to displace; as, to remove a building.

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Take 76% connected

Taken.

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Withdraw 76% connected

To take back or away, as what has been bestowed or enjoyed; to draw back; to cause to move away or retire; as, to withdraw aid, favor, capital, or th…

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Amputation 74% connected

The act of amputating; esp. the operation of cutting off a limb or projecting part of the body.

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Amputation 74% connected

The act of amputating; esp. the operation of cutting off a limb or projecting part of the body.

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Amputator 74% connected

One who amputates.

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Amputator 74% connected

One who amputates.

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Amplectant adjective · 78% connection

Clasping a support; as, amplectant tendrils.

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Arteria coronaria noun · 78% connection

the artery that branches from the aorta to supply blood to the heart

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Branch verb · 78% connection

To shoot or spread in branches; to separate into branches; to ramify.

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Branching adjective · 78% connection

Furnished with branches; shooting our branches; extending in a branch or branches.

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Branchy adjective · 78% connection

Full of branches; having wide-spreading branches; consisting of branches.

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Bronchial tube noun · 78% connection

either of the two main branches of the trachea

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Caning noun · 78% connection

work made of interlaced slender branches (especially willow branches)

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Capreolate adjective · 78% connection

Having a tendril or tendrils.

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Cirrose adjective · 78% connection

Bearing a tendril or tendrils; as, a cirrose leaf.

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Claspered adjective · 78% connection

Furnished with tendrils.

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Climb verb · 78% connection

To ascend or creep upward by twining about a support, or by attaching itself by tendrils, rootlets, etc., to a support or upright surf…

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Coronary artery noun · 78% connection

the artery that branches from the aorta to supply blood to the heart

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Creep verb · 78% connection

To grow, as a vine, clinging to the ground or to some other support by means of roots or rootlets, or by tendrils, along its length.

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Creeper noun · 78% connection

A plant that clings by rootlets, or by tendrils, to the ground, or to trees, etc.; as, the Virginia creeper (Ampelopsis quinquefolia).

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Creeping adjective · 78% connection

Growing along, and clinging to, the ground, or to a wall, etc., by means of rootlets or tendrils.

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Foliage noun · 78% connection

A cluster of leaves, flowers, and branches; especially, the representation of leaves, flowers, and branches, in architecture, intended…

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Gloriosa noun · 78% connection

any plant of the genus Gloriosa of tropical Africa and Asia; a perennial herb climbing by means of tendrils at leaf tips having showy…

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Knife verb · 78% connection

To prune with the knife.

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