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Areolated
adjective · 78% connection
Divided into small spaces or areolations, as the wings of insects, the leaves of plants, or the receptacle of compound flowers.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: receptacle, flowers, composite, plant, called.
Artichoke
noun · 78% connection
The Cynara scolymus, a plant somewhat resembling a thistle, with a dilated, imbricated, and prickly involucre. The head (to which the…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: receptacle, flowers, composite, plant, called.
Belladonna
noun · 78% connection
An herbaceous European plant (Atropa belladonna) with reddish bell-shaped flowers and shining black berries. The whole plant and its f…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: receptacle, flowers, composite, plant, called.
Butterbur
noun · 78% connection
A broad-leaved plant (Petasites vulgaris) of the Composite family, said to have been used in England for wrapping up pats of butter.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: receptacle, flowers, composite, plant, called.
Butterweed
noun · 78% connection
An annual composite plant of the Mississippi valley (Senecio lobatus).
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: receptacle, flowers, composite, plant, called.
Capitulum
noun · 78% connection
A thick head of flowers on a very short axis, as a clover top, or a dandelion; a composite flower. A capitulum may be either globular…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: receptacle, flowers, composite, plant, called.
Chaffy
adjective · 78% connection
Bearing or covered with dry scales, as the under surface of certain ferns, or the disk of some composite flowers.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: receptacle, flowers, composite, plant, called.
Chamomile
noun · 78% connection
A genus of herbs (Anthemis) of the Composite family. The common camomile, A. nobilis, is used as a popular remedy. Its flowers have a…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: receptacle, flowers, composite, plant, called.
Cleistogamous
adjective · 78% connection
Having, beside the usual flowers, other minute, closed flowers, without petals or with minute petals; -- said of certain species of pl…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: receptacle, flowers, composite, plant, called.
Coreopsis
noun · 78% connection
A genus of herbaceous composite plants, having the achenes two-horned and remotely resembling some insect; tickseed. C. tinctoria, of…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: receptacle, flowers, composite, plant, called.
Cudweed
noun · 78% connection
A small composite plant with cottony or silky stem and leaves, primarily a species of Gnaphalium, but the name is now given to many pl…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: receptacle, flowers, composite, plant, called.
Daisy
noun · 78% connection
any of numerous composite plants having flower heads with well-developed ray flowers usually arranged in a single whorl
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: receptacle, flowers, composite, plant, called.
Elecampane
noun · 78% connection
A large, coarse herb (Inula Helenium), with composite yellow flowers. The root, which has a pungent taste, is used as a tonic, and was…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: receptacle, flowers, composite, plant, called.
Flower
verb · 78% connection
To blossom; to bloom; to expand the petals, as a plant; to produce flowers; as, this plant flowers in June.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: receptacle, flowers, composite, plant, called.
Foveolate
adjective · 78% connection
Having small pits or depression, as the receptacle in some composite flowers.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: receptacle, flowers, composite, plant, called.
Geranium
noun · 78% connection
A genus of plants having a beaklike tours or receptacle, around which the seed capsules are arranged, and membranous projections, or s…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: receptacle, flowers, composite, plant, called.
Groundsel
verb · 78% connection
An annual composite plant (Senecio vulgaris), one of the most common and widely distributed weeds on the globe.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: receptacle, flowers, composite, plant, called.
Harebell
noun · 78% connection
A small, slender, branching plant (Campanula rotundifolia), having blue bell-shaped flowers; also, Scilla nutans, which has similar fl…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: receptacle, flowers, composite, plant, called.
