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Bitternut

The swamp hickory (Carya amara). Its thin-shelled nuts are bitter.

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Hickory 76% connected

An American tree of the genus Carya, of which there are several species. The shagbark is the C. alba, and has a very rough bark; it affords the hicko…

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Adventitious root noun · 78% connection

root growing in an unusual location e.g. from a stem

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Apomict noun · 78% connection

a plant that reproduces or is reproduced by apomixis

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Archespore noun · 78% connection

primitive cell or group of cells from which a mother cell develops

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Acrostichum aureum noun · 78% connection

stout tropical swamp fern (especially tropical America) having large fronds with golden yellow sporangia covering the undersides

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Bitter verb · 78% connection

Having a peculiar, acrid, biting taste, like that of wormwood or an infusion of hops; as, a bitter medicine; bitter as aloes.

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Bittersweet adjective · 78% connection

Sweet and then bitter or bitter and then sweet; esp. sweet with a bitter after taste; hence (Fig.), pleasant but painful.

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Bog noun · 78% connection

A little elevated spot or clump of earth, roots, and grass, in a marsh or swamp.

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Calabash noun · 78% connection

Old World climbing plant with hard-shelled bottle-shaped gourds as fruits

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Catkin noun · 78% connection

An ament; a species of inflorescence, consisting of a slender axis with many unisexual apetalous flowers along its sides, as in the wi…

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Cocoanut noun · 78% connection

The large, hard-shelled nut of the cocoa palm. It yields an agreeable milky liquid and a white meat or albumen much used as food and i…

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Colocynth noun · 78% connection

The light spongy pulp of the fruit of the bitter cucumber (Citrullus, / Cucumis, colocynthis), an Asiatic plant allied to the watermel…

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Egg noun · 78% connection

animal reproductive body consisting of an ovum or embryo together with nutritive and protective envelopes; especially the thin-shelled…

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Everglade noun · 78% connection

A swamp or low tract of land inundated with water and interspersed with hummocks, or small islands, and patches of high grass; as, the…

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Flexibility noun · 78% connection

The state or quality of being flexible; flexibleness; pliancy; pliability; as, the flexibility of strips of hemlock, hickory, whalebon…

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Girdler noun · 78% connection

An American longicorn beetle (Oncideres cingulatus) which lays its eggs in the twigs of the hickory, and then girdles each branch by g…

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Golden fern noun · 78% connection

stout tropical swamp fern (especially tropical America) having large fronds with golden yellow sporangia covering the undersides

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Lamella noun · 78% connection

a thin plate or scale of anything, as a thin scale growing from the petals of certain flowers; or one of the thin plates or scales of…

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Leather fern noun · 78% connection

stout tropical swamp fern (especially tropical America) having large fronds with golden yellow sporangia covering the undersides

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Lecythis noun · 78% connection

A genus of gigantic trees, chiefly Brazilian, of the order Myrtaceae, having woody capsules opening by an apical lid. Lecythis Zabucaj…

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Ligustrin noun · 78% connection

A bitter principle found in the bark of the privet (Ligustrum vulgare), and extracted as a white crystalline substance with a warm, bi…

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Linoleic adjective · 78% connection

Pertaining to, or derived from, linoleum, or linseed oil; specifically (Chem.), designating an organic acid, a thin yellow oil, found…

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