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Coma

A state of profound insensibility from which it is difficult or impossible to rouse a person. See Carus.

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Cloud 76% connected

A collection of visible vapor, or watery particles, suspended in the upper atmosphere.

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Tuft 76% connected

A collection of small, flexible, or soft things in a knot or bunch; a waving or bending and spreading cluster; as, a tuft of flowers or feathers.

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Tussock 76% connected

A tuft, as of grass, twigs, hair, or the like; especially, a dense tuft or bunch of grass or sedge.

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Comate 74% connected

Encompassed with a coma, or bushy appearance, like hair; hairy.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Comate 74% connected

Encompassed with a coma, or bushy appearance, like hair; hairy.

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Comet 70% connected

A member of the solar system which usually moves in an elongated orbit, approaching very near to the sun in its perihelion, and receding to a very gr…

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Angiosperm noun · 86% connection

plants having seeds in a closed ovary

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Annual noun · 86% connection

(botany) a plant that completes its entire life cycle within the space of a year

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Apophysis noun · 86% connection

(botany) a natural swelling or enlargement: at the base of the stalk or seta in certain mosses or on the cone scale of certain conifers

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Bast noun · 86% connection

(botany) tissue that conducts synthesized food substances (e.g., from leaves) to parts where needed; consists primarily of sieve tubes

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Biennial noun · 86% connection

(botany) a plant having a life cycle that normally takes two seasons from germination to death to complete; flowering biennials usuall…

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Blister noun · 86% connection

(botany) a swelling on a plant similar to that on the skin

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Callus noun · 86% connection

(botany) an isolated thickening of tissue, especially a stiff protuberance on the lip of an orchid

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Calyx noun · 86% connection

(botany) the whorl of sepals of a flower collectively forming the outer floral envelope or layer of the perianth enclosing and support…

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Corolla noun · 86% connection

(botany) the whorl of petals of a flower that collectively form an inner floral envelope or layer of the perianth; "we cultivate the f…

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Corona noun · 86% connection

(botany) the trumpet-shaped or cup-shaped outgrowth of the corolla of a daffodil or narcissus flower

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Embryo noun · 86% connection

(botany) a minute rudimentary plant contained within a seed or an archegonium

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Fern noun · 86% connection

any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward; reproduce by s…

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Flowering plant noun · 86% connection

plants having seeds in a closed ovary

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Germ tube noun · 86% connection

(botany) a slender tubular outgrowth from a spore in germination

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Gymnosperm noun · 86% connection

plants of the class Gymnospermae having seeds not enclosed in an ovary

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Leaf node noun · 86% connection

(botany) the small swelling that is the part of a plant stem from which one or more leaves emerge

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Ligule noun · 86% connection

(botany) any appendage to a plant that is shaped like a strap

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Lip noun · 86% connection

(botany) either of the two parts of a bilabiate corolla or calyx

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Admit verb · 78% connection

To concede as true; to acknowledge or assent to, as an allegation which it is impossible to deny; to own or confess; as, the argument…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: profound, insensibility, difficult, impossible, rouse.
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Anaesthesia noun · 78% connection

Entire or partial loss or absence of feeling or sensation; a state of general or local insensibility produced by disease or by the inh…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: profound, insensibility, difficult, impossible, rouse.
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Anaesthetic adjective · 78% connection

Characterized by, or connected with, insensibility; as, an anaesthetic effect or operation.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: profound, insensibility, difficult, impossible, rouse.
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Answerless adjective · 78% connection

Having no answer, or impossible to be answered.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: profound, insensibility, difficult, impossible, rouse.
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Approachless adjective · 78% connection

Impossible to be approached.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: profound, insensibility, difficult, impossible, rouse.
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Aridity noun · 78% connection

Fig.: Want of interest of feeling; insensibility; dryness of style or feeling; spiritual drought.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: profound, insensibility, difficult, impossible, rouse.
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Bay verb · 78% connection

A state of being obliged to face an antagonist or a difficulty, when escape has become impossible.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: profound, insensibility, difficult, impossible, rouse.
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Bruteness noun · 78% connection

Insensibility.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: profound, insensibility, difficult, impossible, rouse.
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Carus noun · 78% connection

Coma with complete insensibility; deep lethargy.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: profound, insensibility, difficult, impossible, rouse.
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Checkmate verb · 78% connection

To check (an adversary's king) in such a manner that escape in impossible; to defeat (an adversary) by putting his king in check from…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: profound, insensibility, difficult, impossible, rouse.
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Cocaine noun · 78% connection

A powerful alkaloid, C17H21NO4, obtained from the leaves of coca. It is a bitter, white, crystalline substance, and is remarkable for…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: profound, insensibility, difficult, impossible, rouse.
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Condition verb · 78% connection

To impose upon an object those relations or conditions without which knowledge and thought are alleged to be impossible.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: profound, insensibility, difficult, impossible, rouse.
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