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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: name, several, west, indian, trees.
Barbadoes
noun · 78% connection
A West Indian island, giving its name to a disease, to a cherry, etc.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: name, several, west, indian, trees.
Catalpa
noun · 78% connection
A genus of American and East Indian trees, of which the best know species are the Catalpa bignonioides, a large, ornamental North Amer…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: name, several, west, indian, trees.
Chank
noun · 78% connection
The East Indian name for the large spiral shell of several species of sea conch much used in making bangles, esp. Turbinella pyrum. Ca…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: name, several, west, indian, trees.
Copaiva
noun · 78% connection
A more or less viscid, yellowish liquid, the bitter oleoresin of several species of Copaifera, a genus of trees growing in South Ameri…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: name, several, west, indian, trees.
Crocodile
noun · 78% connection
A large reptile of the genus Crocodilus, of several species. They grow to the length of sixteen or eighteen feet, and inhabit the larg…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: name, several, west, indian, trees.
Fiddlewood
noun · 78% connection
The wood of several West Indian trees, mostly of the genus Citharexylum.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: name, several, west, indian, trees.
Flamboyer
noun · 78% connection
A name given in the East and West Indies to certain trees with brilliant blossoms, probably species of Caesalpinia.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: name, several, west, indian, trees.
Frankincense
noun · 78% connection
A fragrant, aromatic resin, or gum resin, burned as an incense in religious rites or for medicinal fumigation. The best kinds now come…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: name, several, west, indian, trees.
Gorgonia
noun · 78% connection
A genus of Gorgoniacea, formerly very extensive, but now restricted to such species as the West Indian sea fan (Gorgonia flabellum), s…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: name, several, west, indian, trees.
Grugru palm
unknown · 78% connection
A West Indian name for several kinds of palm. See Macaw tree, under Macaw.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: name, several, west, indian, trees.
Gutta-percha
noun · 78% connection
A concrete juice produced by various trees found in the Malayan archipelago, especially by the Isonandra, / Dichopsis, Gutta. It becom…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: name, several, west, indian, trees.
Halesia
noun · 78% connection
A genus of American shrubs containing several species, called snowdrop trees, or silver-bell trees. They have showy, white flowers, dr…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: name, several, west, indian, trees.
Indian
adjective · 78% connection
Made of maize or Indian corn; as, Indian corn, Indian meal, Indian bread, and the like.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: name, several, west, indian, trees.
Lignum rhodium
unknown · 78% connection
The fragrant wood of several shrubs and trees, especially of species of Rhodorhiza from the Canary Islands, and of the West Indian Amy…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: name, several, west, indian, trees.
Longicornia
n. pl. · 78% connection
A division of beetles, including a large number of species, in which the antennae are very long. Most of them, while in the larval sta…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: name, several, west, indian, trees.
Mustard
noun · 78% connection
The name of several cruciferous plants of the genus Brassica (formerly Sinapis), as white mustard (B. alba), black mustard (B. Nigra),…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: name, several, west, indian, trees.
Nominate
verb · 78% connection
To name, or designate by name, for an office or place; to appoint; esp., to name as a candidate for an election, choice, or appointmen…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: name, several, west, indian, trees.
