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Achenium
noun · 78% connection
A small, dry, indehiscent fruit, containing a single seed, as in the buttercup; -- called a naked seed by the earlier botanists.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: shape, gourd, seed, said, certain.
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: shape, gourd, seed, said, certain.
Amber seed
unknown · 78% connection
Seed of the Hibiscus abelmoschus, somewhat resembling millet, brought from Egypt and the West Indies, and having a flavor like that of…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: shape, gourd, seed, said, certain.
Angiomonospermous
adjective · 78% connection
Producing one seed only in a seed pod.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: shape, gourd, seed, said, certain.
Arillus
noun · 78% connection
A exterior covering, forming a false coat or appendage to a seed, as the loose, transparent bag inclosing the seed or the white water…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: shape, gourd, seed, said, certain.
Baobab
noun · 78% connection
African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: shape, gourd, seed, said, certain.
Bockey
noun · 78% connection
A bowl or vessel made from a gourd.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: shape, gourd, seed, said, certain.
Boll
verb · 78% connection
To form a boll or seed vessel; to go to seed.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: shape, gourd, seed, said, certain.
Bond
noun · 78% connection
A writing under seal, by which a person binds himself, his heirs, executors, and administrators, to pay a certain sum on or before a f…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: shape, gourd, seed, said, certain.
Boza
noun · 78% connection
An acidulated fermented drink of the Arabs and Egyptians, made from millet seed and various astringent substances; also, an intoxicati…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: shape, gourd, seed, said, certain.
Calabash
noun · 78% connection
The common gourd (plant or fruit).
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: shape, gourd, seed, said, certain.
Carpellum
noun · 78% connection
A simple pistil or single-celled ovary or seed vessel, or one of the parts of a compound pistil, ovary, or seed vessel. See Illust of…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: shape, gourd, seed, said, certain.
Caryopsis
noun · 78% connection
A one-celled, dry, indehiscent fruit, with a thin membranous pericarp, adhering closely to the seed, so that fruit and seed are incorp…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: shape, gourd, seed, said, certain.
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: shape, gourd, seed, said, certain.
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: shape, gourd, seed, said, certain.
Cucurbite
noun · 78% connection
A vessel or flask for distillation, used with, or forming part of, an alembic; a matrass; -- originally in the shape of a gourd, with…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: shape, gourd, seed, said, certain.
Cyclops
noun · 78% connection
minute free-swimming freshwater copepod having a large median eye and pear-shaped body and long antennae used in swimming; important i…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: shape, gourd, seed, said, certain.
Disseminate
v. t. & i. · 78% connection
To sow broadcast or as seed; to scatter for growth and propagation, like seed; to spread abroad; to diffuse; as, principles, ideas, op…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: shape, gourd, seed, said, certain.
