Broom corn: alternatives and connections

A genus of plants (order Amaryllidaceae) of which the chief species is the maguey or century plant (A. Americana), wrongly called Aloe…

A snake of a black color, of which two species are common in the United States, the Bascanium constrictor, or racer, sometimes six fee…

a division of a stem, or secondary stem arising from the main stem of a plant

An instrument for the accurate measurement of small differences of height; esp. of the differences in the height of the upper surfaces…

The board used in the game of chess, having eight rows of alternate light and dark squares, eight in each row. See Checkerboard.

A palm tree producing the cocoanut (Cocos nucifera). It grows in nearly all tropical countries, attaining a height of sixty or eighty…

A solid measure, equivalent to 128 cubic feet; a pile of wood, or other coarse material, eight feet long, four feet high, and four fee…

A kind of millet, cultivated throughout Asia, and introduced into the south of Europe; a variety of Sorghum vulgare; -- called also In…

The quotient of a unit divided by eight; one of eight equal parts; an eighth part.

A myrtaceous genus of trees, mostly Australian. Many of them grow to an immense height, one or two species exceeding the height even o…

The source, fountain, spring, or beginning, as of a stream or river; as, the head of the Nile; hence, the altitude of the source, or t…

Utmost degree in extent; extreme limit of energy or condition; as, the height of a fever, of passion, of madness, of folly; the height…

Originally, a boundary stone dedicated to Hermes as the god of boundaries, and therefore bearing in some cases a head, or head and sho…

A line connecting or marking places upon the surface of the earth where height of the barometer reduced to sea level is the same eithe…

Relics of neolithic man found on the coast of Denmark, consisting of shell mounds, some of which are ten feet high, one thousand feet…

A nautical mile, or 6080.27 feet; as, when a ship goes eight miles an hour, her speed is said to be eight knots.

Bearing fruit but once, and dying after fructification, as beans, maize, mustard, etc.

A species of the genus Myrtus, especially Myrtus communis. The common myrtle has a shrubby, upright stem, eight or ten feet high. Its…