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Agrostis
noun · 78% connection
A genus of grasses, including species called in common language bent grass. Some of them, as redtop (Agrostis vulgaris), are valuable…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: plant, family, grasses, genus, bambusa.
Arrowroot
noun · 78% connection
A west Indian plant of the genus Maranta, esp. M. arundinacea, now cultivated in many hot countries. It said that the Indians used the…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: plant, family, grasses, genus, bambusa.
Avena
noun · 78% connection
A genus of grasses, including the common oat (Avena sativa); the oat grasses.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: plant, family, grasses, genus, bambusa.
Barley
noun · 78% connection
A valuable grain, of the family of grasses, genus Hordeum, used for food, and for making malt, from which are prepared beer, ale, and…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: plant, family, grasses, genus, bambusa.
Blade
noun · 78% connection
Properly, the leaf, or flat part of the leaf, of any plant, especially of gramineous plants. The term is sometimes applied to the spir…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: plant, family, grasses, genus, bambusa.
Brazil wood
unknown · 78% connection
A very heavy wood of a reddish color, imported from Brazil and other tropical countries, for cabinet-work, and for dyeing. The best is…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: plant, family, grasses, genus, bambusa.
Bunch grass
unknown · 78% connection
A grass growing in bunches and affording pasture. In California, Atropis tenuifolia, Festuca scabrella, and several kinds of Stipa are…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: plant, family, grasses, genus, bambusa.
Cashew
noun · 78% connection
A tree (Anacardium occidentale) of the same family which the sumac. It is native in tropical America, but is now naturalized in all tr…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: plant, family, grasses, genus, bambusa.
Cinchona
noun · 78% connection
A genus of trees growing naturally on the Andes in Peru and adjacent countries, but now cultivated in the East Indies, producing a med…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: plant, family, grasses, genus, bambusa.
Cocoa palm
unknown · 78% connection
A palm tree producing the cocoanut (Cocos nucifera). It grows in nearly all tropical countries, attaining a height of sixty or eighty…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: plant, family, grasses, genus, bambusa.
Coffee
noun · 78% connection
The "beans" or "berries" (pyrenes) obtained from the drupes of a small evergreen tree of the genus Coffea, growing in Abyssinia, Arabi…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: plant, family, grasses, genus, bambusa.
Cromlech
noun · 78% connection
A monument of rough stones composed of one or more large ones supported in a horizontal position upon others. They are found chiefly i…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: plant, family, grasses, genus, bambusa.
Croton
noun · 78% connection
A genus of euphorbiaceous plants belonging to tropical countries.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: plant, family, grasses, genus, bambusa.
Cubeb
noun · 78% connection
The small, spicy berry of a species of pepper (Piper Cubeba; in med., Cubeba officinalis), native in Java and Borneo, but now cultivat…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: plant, family, grasses, genus, bambusa.
Dodder
noun · 78% connection
A plant of the genus Cuscuta. It is a leafless parasitical vine with yellowish threadlike stems. It attaches itself to some other plan…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: plant, family, grasses, genus, bambusa.
Dollar
noun · 78% connection
A coin of the same general weight and value, though differing slightly in different countries, current in Mexico, Canada, parts of Sou…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: plant, family, grasses, genus, bambusa.
Erythroxylon
noun · 78% connection
A genus of shrubs or small trees of the Flax family, growing in tropical countries. E. Coca is the source of cocaine. See Coca.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: plant, family, grasses, genus, bambusa.
Eugenia
noun · 78% connection
A genus of myrtaceous plants, mostly of tropical countries, and including several aromatic trees and shrubs, among which are the trees…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: plant, family, grasses, genus, bambusa.
