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Bluebottle

A plant (Centaurea cyanus) which grows in grain fields. It receives its name from its blue bottle-shaped flowers.

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Blowfly 76% connected

Any species of fly of the genus Musca that deposits its eggs or young larvae (called flyblows and maggots) upon meat or other animal products.

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Flower 76% connected

In the popular sense, the bloom or blossom of a plant; the showy portion, usually of a different color, shape, and texture from the foliage.

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Bachelor's button 92% connected

A plant with flowers shaped like buttons; especially, several species of Ranunculus, and the cornflower (Centaures cyanus) and globe amaranth (Gomphr…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Cornflower 92% connected

A conspicuous wild flower (Centaurea Cyanus), growing in grainfields.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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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

(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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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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Ampullaceous adjective · 78% connection

Like a bottle or inflated bladder; bottle-shaped; swelling.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: plant, centaurea, cyanus, grows, grain.
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Appellative noun · 78% connection

A common name, in distinction from a proper name. A common name, or appellative, stands for a whole class, genus, or species of beings…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: plant, centaurea, cyanus, grows, grain.
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Beneficiary noun · 78% connection

One who receives anything as a gift; one who receives a benefit or advantage; esp. one who receives help or income from an educational…

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Bise noun · 78% connection

A pale blue pigment, prepared from the native blue carbonate of copper, or from smalt; -- called also blue bice.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: plant, centaurea, cyanus, grows, grain.
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Blaubok noun · 78% connection

The blue buck. See Blue buck, under Blue.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: plant, centaurea, cyanus, grows, grain.
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Blue superl. · 78% connection

Having the color of the clear sky, or a hue resembling it, whether lighter or darker; as, the deep, blue sea; as blue as a sapphire; b…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: plant, centaurea, cyanus, grows, grain.
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Bluebell noun · 78% connection

one of the most handsome prairie wildflowers having large erect bell-shaped bluish flowers; of moist places in prairies and fields fro…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: plant, centaurea, cyanus, grows, grain.
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Bluets adjective · 78% connection

A name given to several different species of plants having blue flowers, as the Houstonia coerulea, the Centaurea cyanus or bluebottle…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: plant, centaurea, cyanus, grows, grain.
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Bottle verb · 78% connection

To put into bottles; to inclose in, or as in, a bottle or bottles; to keep or restrain as in a bottle; as, to bottle wine or porter; t…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: plant, centaurea, cyanus, grows, grain.
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Calabash noun · 78% connection

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

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: plant, centaurea, cyanus, grows, grain.
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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, centaurea, cyanus, grows, grain.
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