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Cudweed

A small composite plant with cottony or silky stem and leaves, primarily a species of Gnaphalium, but the name is now given to many plants of different genera, as Filago, Antennaria, etc.; cottonweed.

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Chafeweed 76% connected

The cudweed (Gnaphalium), used to prevent or cure chafing.

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Everlasting 76% connected

Lasting or enduring forever; exsisting or continuing without end; immoral; eternal.

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Flower 76% connected

In the popular sense, the bloom or blossom of a plant; the showy portion, usually of a different color, shape, and texture from the foliage.

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Mugwort 76% connected

A somewhat aromatic composite weed (Artemisia vulgaris), at one time used medicinally; -- called also motherwort.

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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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Coma noun · 86% connection

(botany) a usually terminal tuft of bracts (as in the pineapple) or tuft of hairs (especially on certain seeds)

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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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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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Agave noun · 78% connection

A genus of plants (order Amaryllidaceae) of which the chief species is the maguey or century plant (A. Americana), wrongly called Aloe…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, composite, plant, cottony, silky.
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Appellative noun · 78% connection

A common name, in distinction from a proper name. A common name, or appellative, stands for a whole class, genus, or species of beings…

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Basil noun · 78% connection

The name given to several aromatic herbs of the Mint family, but chiefly to the common or sweet basil (Ocymum basilicum), and the bush…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, composite, plant, cottony, silky.
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Branch noun · 78% connection

a division of a stem, or secondary stem arising from the main stem of a plant

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Buchu noun · 78% connection

A South African shrub (Barosma) with small leaves that are dotted with oil glands; also, the leaves themselves, which are used in medi…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, composite, plant, cottony, silky.
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Bud noun · 78% connection

A small protuberance on the stem or branches of a plant, containing the rudiments of future leaves, flowers, or stems; an undeveloped…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, composite, plant, cottony, silky.
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Calendula noun · 78% connection

A genus of composite herbaceous plants. One species, Calendula officinalis, is the common marigold, and was supposed to blossom on the…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, composite, plant, cottony, silky.
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Cassidony noun · 78% connection

The goldilocks (Chrysocoma Linosyris) and perhaps other plants related to the genus Gnaphalium or cudweed.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, composite, plant, cottony, silky.
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Caudex noun · 78% connection

The stem of a tree., esp. a stem without a branch, as of a palm or a tree fern; also, the perennial rootstock of an herbaceous plant.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, composite, plant, cottony, silky.
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Cottonary adjective · 78% connection

Relating to, or composed of, cotton; cottony.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, composite, plant, cottony, silky.
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Cottonwood noun · 78% connection

any of several North American trees of the genus Populus having a tuft of cottony hairs on the seed

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