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-tre
noun · 78% connection
The point of intersection of a vertical line through the center of gravity of the fluid displaced by a floating body which is tipped t…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: papilionaceous, plant, ornithopus, curved, cylindrical.
Anamorphosis
noun · 78% connection
A distorted or monstrous projection or representation of an image on a plane or curved surface, which, when viewed from a certain poin…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: papilionaceous, plant, ornithopus, curved, cylindrical.
Astragalus
noun · 78% connection
A genus of papilionaceous plants, of the tribe Galegeae, containing numerous species, two of which are called, in English, milk vetch…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: papilionaceous, plant, ornithopus, curved, cylindrical.
Bulb
noun · 78% connection
An expansion or protuberance on a stem or tube, as the bulb of a thermometer, which may be of any form, as spherical, cylindrical, cur…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: papilionaceous, plant, ornithopus, curved, cylindrical.
Canted
adjective · 78% connection
Inclined at an angle to something else; tipped; sloping.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: papilionaceous, plant, ornithopus, curved, cylindrical.
Caracal
noun · 78% connection
A lynx (Felis, or Lynx, caracal.) It is a native of Africa and Asia. Its ears are black externally, and tipped with long black hairs.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: papilionaceous, plant, ornithopus, curved, cylindrical.
Carina
noun · 78% connection
That part of a papilionaceous flower, consisting of two petals, commonly united, which incloses the organs of fructification
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: papilionaceous, plant, ornithopus, curved, cylindrical.
Concave
adjective · 78% connection
Hollow and curved or rounded; vaulted; -- said of the interior of a curved surface or line, as of the curve of the of the inner surfac…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: papilionaceous, plant, ornithopus, curved, cylindrical.
Counterbore
noun · 78% connection
A flat-bottomed cylindrical enlargement of the mouth of a hole, usually of slight depth, as for receiving a cylindrical screw head.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: papilionaceous, plant, ornithopus, curved, cylindrical.
Cylindraceous
adjective · 78% connection
Cylindrical, or approaching a cylindrical form.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: papilionaceous, plant, ornithopus, curved, cylindrical.
Drosera
noun · 78% connection
A genus of low perennial or biennial plants, the leaves of which are beset with gland-tipped bristles. See Sundew.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: papilionaceous, plant, ornithopus, curved, cylindrical.
Drum
noun · 78% connection
One of the cylindrical, or nearly cylindrical, blocks, of which the shaft of a column is composed; also, a vertical wall, whether circ…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: papilionaceous, plant, ornithopus, curved, cylindrical.
Gimbals
noun · 78% connection
A contrivance for permitting a body to incline freely in all directions, or for suspending anything, as a barometer, ship's compass, c…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: papilionaceous, plant, ornithopus, curved, cylindrical.
Glycyrrhiza
noun · 78% connection
A genus of papilionaceous herbaceous plants, one species of which (G. glabra), is the licorice plant, the roots of which have a bitter…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: papilionaceous, plant, ornithopus, curved, cylindrical.
Gold
verb · 78% connection
A yellow color, like that of the metal; as, a flower tipped with gold.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: papilionaceous, plant, ornithopus, curved, cylindrical.
Keel
noun · 78% connection
The two lowest petals of the corolla of a papilionaceous flower, united and inclosing the stamens and pistil; a carina. See Carina.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: papilionaceous, plant, ornithopus, curved, cylindrical.
Lens
noun · 78% connection
A piece of glass, or other transparent substance, ground with two opposite regular surfaces, either both curved, or one curved and the…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: papilionaceous, plant, ornithopus, curved, cylindrical.
Linnet
noun · 78% connection
Any one of several species of fringilline birds of the genera Linota, Acanthis, and allied genera, esp. the common European species (L…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: papilionaceous, plant, ornithopus, curved, cylindrical.