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Biennial

Happening, or taking place, once in two years; as, a biennial election.

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Periodic 84% connected

Pertaining to, derived from, or designating, the highest oxygen acid (HIO/) of iodine.

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Periodic 84% connected

Pertaining to, derived from, or designating, the highest oxygen acid (HIO/) of iodine.

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Periodical 84% connected

Of or pertaining to a period or periods, or to division by periods.

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Periodical 84% connected

Of or pertaining to a period or periods, or to division by periods.

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Flora 76% connected

The goddess of flowers and spring.

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Plant 76% connected

A vegetable; an organized living being, generally without feeling and voluntary motion, and having, when complete, a root, stem, and leaves, though c…

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Annual 94% connected

Of or pertaining to a year; returning every year; coming or happening once in the year; yearly.

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Annual 94% connected

Of or pertaining to a year; returning every year; coming or happening once in the year; yearly.

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Perennial 94% connected

ing or continuing through the year; as, perennial fountains.

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Perennial 94% connected

ing or continuing through the year; as, perennial fountains.

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Angiosperm noun · 86% connection

plants having seeds in a closed ovary

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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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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

(botany) the whorl of sepals of a flower collectively forming the outer floral envelope or layer of the perianth enclosing and support…

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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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Gymnosperm noun · 86% connection

plants of the class Gymnospermae having seeds not enclosed in an ovary

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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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Lobe noun · 86% connection

(botany) a part into which a leaf is divided

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Accidental adjective · 78% connection

Happening by chance, or unexpectedly; taking place not according to the usual course of things; casual; fortuitous; as, an accidental…

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Apostatize verb · 78% connection

To renounce totally a religious belief once professed; to forsake one's church, the faith or principles once held, or the party to whi…

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Biennially adverb · 78% connection

Once in two years.

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By-election noun · 78% connection

An election held by itself, not at the time of a general election.

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Census noun · 78% connection

A numbering of the people, and valuation of their estate, for the purpose of imposing taxes, etc.; -- usually made once in five years.

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Centenary adjective · 78% connection

Occurring once in every hundred years; centennial.

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Centennial adjective · 78% connection

Happening once in a hundred years; as, centennial jubilee; a centennial celebration.

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Centennially adverb · 78% connection

Once in a hundred years.

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Close to adverb · 78% connection

(of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct; "lasted approximately an hour"; "in just about a minute"; "he's about 30 years…

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Coattails effect noun · 78% connection

(politics) the consequence of one popular candidate in an election drawing votes for other members of the same political party; "he co…

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Curvet noun · 78% connection

A particular leap of a horse, when he raises both his fore legs at once, equally advanced, and, as his fore legs are falling, raises h…

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Dead metaphor noun · 78% connection

a metaphor that has occurred so often that it has become a new meaning of the expression (e.g., ‘he is a snake’ may once have been a m…

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