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Alder
noun · 78% connection
A tree, usually growing in moist land, and belonging to the genus Alnus. The wood is used by turners, etc.; the bark by dyers and tann…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: less, viscid, yellowish, liquid, bitter.
Analogue
noun · 78% connection
That which is analogous to, or corresponds with, some other thing.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: less, viscid, yellowish, liquid, bitter.
Attenuate
verb · 78% connection
To make thin or slender, as by mechanical or chemical action upon inanimate objects, or by the effects of starvation, disease, etc., u…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: less, viscid, yellowish, liquid, bitter.
Basswood
noun · 78% connection
The bass (Tilia) or its wood; especially, T. Americana. See Bass, the lime tree.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: less, viscid, yellowish, liquid, 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: less, viscid, yellowish, liquid, bitter.
Butterwort
noun · 78% connection
A genus of low herbs (Pinguicula) having simple leaves which secrete from their glandular upper surface a viscid fluid, to which insec…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: less, viscid, yellowish, liquid, bitter.
Cassia
noun · 78% connection
A genus of leguminous plants (herbs, shrubs, or trees) of many species, most of which have purgative qualities. The leaves of several…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: less, viscid, yellowish, liquid, bitter.
Colocynth
noun · 78% connection
The light spongy pulp of the fruit of the bitter cucumber (Citrullus, / Cucumis, colocynthis), an Asiatic plant allied to the watermel…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: less, viscid, yellowish, liquid, bitter.
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: less, viscid, yellowish, liquid, bitter.
Dammara
noun · 78% connection
An oleoresin used in making varnishes; dammar gum; dammara resin. It is obtained from certain resin trees indigenous to the East Indie…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: less, viscid, yellowish, liquid, bitter.
Elimination
noun · 78% connection
The act of expelling or throwing off
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: less, viscid, yellowish, liquid, bitter.
Eugenia
noun · 78% connection
A genus of myrtaceous plants, mostly of tropical countries, and including several aromatic trees and shrubs, among which are the trees…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: less, viscid, yellowish, liquid, bitter.
Gall
noun · 78% connection
The bitter, alkaline, viscid fluid found in the gall bladder, beneath the liver. It consists of the secretion of the liver, or bile, m…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: less, viscid, yellowish, liquid, bitter.
Garfish
noun · 78% connection
A European marine fish (Belone vulgaris); -- called also gar, gerrick, greenback, greenbone, gorebill, hornfish, longnose, mackerel gu…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: less, viscid, yellowish, liquid, bitter.
Genus
noun · 78% connection
A class of objects divided into several subordinate species; a class more extensive than a species; a precisely defined and exactly di…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: less, viscid, yellowish, liquid, bitter.
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: less, viscid, yellowish, liquid, bitter.
Hickory
noun · 78% connection
An American tree of the genus Carya, of which there are several species. The shagbark is the C. alba, and has a very rough bark; it af…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: less, viscid, yellowish, liquid, bitter.
Kangaroo
noun · 78% connection
Any one of numerous species of jumping marsupials of the family Macropodidae. They inhabit Australia, New Guinea, and adjacent islands…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: less, viscid, yellowish, liquid, bitter.
