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Apricot

A fruit allied to the plum, of an orange color, oval shape, and delicious taste; also, the tree (Prunus Armeniaca of Linnaeus) which bears this fruit. By cultivation it has been introduced throughout the temperate zone.

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Pink 76% connected

A vessel with a very narrow stern; -- called also pinky.

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Peachy 74% connected

Resembling a peach or peaches.

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Peachy 74% connected

Resembling a peach or peaches.

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Peach 92% connected

To accuse of crime; to inform against.

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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

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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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Anchovy pear unknown · 78% connection

A West Indian fruit like the mango in taste, sometimes pickled; also, the tree (Grias cauliflora) bearing this fruit.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: fruit, allied, plum, orange, color.
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Bergamot noun · 78% connection

A tree of the Orange family (Citrus bergamia), having a roundish or pear-shaped fruit, from the rind of which an essential oil of deli…

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Bullace noun · 78% connection

A small European plum (Prunus communis, var. insitita). See Plum.

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Cherry noun · 78% connection

A tree or shrub of the genus Prunus (Which also includes the plum) bearing a fleshy drupe with a bony stone;

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Chokecherry noun · 78% connection

The astringent fruit of a species of wild cherry (Prunus Virginiana); also, the bush or tree which bears such fruit.

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Damson noun · 78% connection

A small oval plum of a blue color, the fruit of a variety of the Prunus domestica; -- called also damask plum.

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Durion noun · 78% connection

The fruit of the durio. It is oval or globular, and eight or ten inches long. It has a hard prickly rind, containing a soft, cream-col…

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Filbert noun · 78% connection

The fruit of the Corylus Avellana or hazel. It is an oval nut, containing a kernel that has a mild, farinaceous, oily taste, agreeable…

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Gean noun · 78% connection

A species of cherry tree common in Europe (Prunus avium); also, the fruit, which is usually small and dark in color.

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Genipap noun · 78% connection

The edible fruit of a West Indian tree (Genipa Americana) of the order Rubiaceae. It is oval in shape, as a large as a small orange, o…

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Greengage noun · 78% connection

A kind of plum of medium size, roundish shape, greenish flesh, and delicious flavor. It is called in France Reine Claude, after the qu…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: fruit, allied, plum, orange, color.
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Guava noun · 78% connection

A tropical tree, or its fruit, of the genus Psidium. Two varieties are well known, the P. pyriferum, or white guava, and P. pomiferum,…

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