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Acanthus
noun · 78% connection
A genus of herbaceous prickly plants, found in the south of Europe, Asia Minor, and India; bear's-breech.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: prickly, plant, genus, carlina, vulgaris.
Asphaltum
noun · 78% connection
Mineral pitch, Jews' pitch, or compact native bitumen. It is brittle, of a black or brown color and high luster on a surface of fractu…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: prickly, plant, genus, carlina, vulgaris.
Attagen
noun · 78% connection
A species of sand grouse (Syrrghaptes Pallasii) found in Asia and rarely in southern Europe.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: prickly, plant, genus, carlina, vulgaris.
Badger
noun · 78% connection
A carnivorous quadruped of the genus Meles or of an allied genus. It is a burrowing animal, with short, thick legs, and long claws on…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: prickly, plant, genus, carlina, vulgaris.
Bramble
noun · 78% connection
Any plant of the genus Rubus, including the raspberry and blackberry. Hence: Any rough, prickly shrub.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: prickly, plant, genus, carlina, vulgaris.
Broom rape
unknown · 78% connection
A genus (Orobanche) of parasitic plants of Europe and Asia. They are destitute of chlorophyll, have scales instead of leaves, and spik…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: prickly, plant, genus, carlina, vulgaris.
Bullfinch
noun · 78% connection
A bird of the genus Pyrrhula and other related genera, especially the P. vulgaris / rubicilla, a bird of Europe allied to the grosbeak…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: prickly, plant, genus, carlina, vulgaris.
Chameleon
noun · 78% connection
A lizardlike reptile of the genus Chamaeleo, of several species, found in Africa, Asia, and Europe. The skin is covered with fine gran…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: prickly, plant, genus, carlina, vulgaris.
Chestnut
noun · 78% connection
The edible nut of a forest tree (Castanea vesca) of Europe and America. Commonly two or more of the nuts grow in a prickly bur.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: prickly, plant, genus, carlina, vulgaris.
Chick-pea
noun · 78% connection
A Small leguminous plant (Cicer arietinum) of Asia, Africa, and the south of Europe; the chich; the dwarf pea; the gram.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: prickly, plant, genus, carlina, vulgaris.
Chicory
noun · 78% connection
A branching perennial plant (Cichorium Intybus) with bright blue flowers, growing wild in Europe, Asia, and America; also cultivated f…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: prickly, plant, genus, carlina, vulgaris.
Christ's-thorn
noun · 78% connection
One of several prickly or thorny shrubs found in Palestine, especially the Paliurus aculeatus, Zizyphus Spina-Christi, and Z. vulgaris…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: prickly, plant, genus, carlina, vulgaris.
Cocklebur
noun · 78% connection
burdock having heart-shaped leaves found in open woodland, hedgerows and rough grassland of Europe (except extreme N) and Asia Minor;…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: prickly, plant, genus, carlina, vulgaris.
Columbine
noun · 78% connection
A plant of several species of the genus Aquilegia; as, A. vulgaris, or the common garden columbine; A. Canadensis, the wild red columb…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: prickly, plant, genus, carlina, vulgaris.
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: prickly, plant, genus, carlina, vulgaris.
Ermine
noun · 78% connection
A valuable fur-bearing animal of the genus Mustela (M. erminea), allied to the weasel; the stoat. It is found in the northern parts of…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: prickly, plant, genus, carlina, vulgaris.
Francolin
noun · 78% connection
A spurred partidge of the genus Francolinus and allied genera, of Asia and Africa. The common species (F. vulgaris) was formerly commo…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: prickly, plant, genus, carlina, vulgaris.
Glasswort
noun · 78% connection
A seashore plant of the Spinach family (Salicornia herbacea), with succulent jointed stems; also, a prickly plant of the same family (…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: prickly, plant, genus, carlina, vulgaris.
