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Adansonia
noun · 78% connection
A genus of great trees related to the Bombax. There are two species, A. digitata, the baobab or monkey-bread of Africa and India, and…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: light, spongy, pulp, fruit, bitter.
Berry
noun · 78% connection
A small fruit that is pulpy or succulent throughout, having seeds loosely imbedded in the pulp, as the currant, grape, blueberry.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: light, spongy, pulp, fruit, bitter.
Bitterroot
noun · 78% connection
A plant (Lewisia rediviva) allied to the purslane, but with fleshy, farinaceous roots, growing in the mountains of Idaho, Montana, etc…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: light, spongy, pulp, fruit, bitter.
Bittersweet
adjective · 78% connection
Sweet and then bitter or bitter and then sweet; esp. sweet with a bitter after taste; hence (Fig.), pleasant but painful.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: light, spongy, pulp, fruit, bitter.
Brown root rot fungus
noun · 78% connection
fungus causing brown root rot in plants of the pea and potato and cucumber families
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: light, spongy, pulp, fruit, bitter.
Cacao
noun · 78% connection
A small evergreen tree (Theobroma Cacao) of South America and the West Indies. Its fruit contains an edible pulp, inclosing seeds abou…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: light, spongy, pulp, fruit, bitter.
Crumpet
noun · 78% connection
A kind of large, thin muffin or cake, light and spongy, and cooked on a griddle or spider.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: light, spongy, pulp, fruit, bitter.
Cucumber
noun · 78% connection
A creeping plant, and its fruit, of several species of the genus Cucumis, esp. Cucumis sativus, the unripe fruit of which is eaten eit…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: light, spongy, pulp, fruit, bitter.
Cucumiform
adjective · 78% connection
Having the form of a cucumber; having the form of a cylinder tapered and rounded at the ends, and either straight or curved.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: light, spongy, pulp, fruit, bitter.
Cucumis
noun · 78% connection
A genus of plants including the cucumber, melon, and same kinds of gourds.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: light, spongy, pulp, fruit, bitter.
Cucurbitaceous
adjective · 78% connection
Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a family of plants of which the cucumber, melon, and gourd are common examples.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: light, spongy, pulp, fruit, bitter.
Doom palm
unknown · 78% connection
A species of palm tree (Hyphaene Thebaica), highly valued for the fibrous pulp of its fruit, which has the flavor of gingerbread, and…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: light, spongy, pulp, fruit, bitter.
Ecballium
noun · 78% connection
A genus of cucurbitaceous plants consisting of the single species Ecballium agreste (or Elaterium), the squirting cucumber. Its fruit,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: light, spongy, pulp, fruit, bitter.
Elater
noun · 78% connection
The active principle of elaterium, being found in the juice of the wild or squirting cucumber (Ecballium agreste, formerly Motordica E…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: light, spongy, pulp, fruit, bitter.
Elaterium
noun · 78% connection
A cathartic substance obtained, in the form of yellowish or greenish cakes, as the dried residue of the juice of the wild or squirting…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: light, spongy, pulp, fruit, bitter.
Emulsin
noun · 78% connection
The white milky pulp or extract of bitter almonds.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: light, spongy, pulp, fruit, bitter.
Galbanum
noun · 78% connection
A gum resin exuding from the stems of certain Asiatic umbelliferous plants, mostly species of Ferula. The Bubon Galbanum of South Afri…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: light, spongy, pulp, fruit, bitter.
Gherkin
noun · 78% connection
A kind of small, prickly cucumber, much used for pickles.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: light, spongy, pulp, fruit, bitter.
