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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
A species or genus in one country closely related to a species of the same genus, or a genus of the same group, in another: such speci…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: less, viscid, yellowish, liquid, bitter.
Attenuate
verb · 78% connection
To make thin or less consistent; to render less viscid or dense; to rarefy. Specifically: To subtilize, as the humors of the body, or…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: less, viscid, yellowish, liquid, bitter.
Basswood
noun · 78% connection
any of various deciduous trees of the genus Tilia with heart-shaped leaves and drooping cymose clusters of yellowish often fragrant fl…
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
Act of causing a quantity to disappear from an equation; especially, in the operation of deducing from several equations containing se…
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
One of several species of similar fishes of the genus Tylosurus, of which one species (T. marinus) is common on the Atlantic coast. T.…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: less, viscid, yellowish, liquid, bitter.
Genus
noun · 78% connection
An assemblage of species, having so many fundamental points of structure in common, that in the judgment of competent scientists, they…
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.
