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Aculeate
adjective · 78% connection
Having prickles, or sharp points; beset with prickles.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: grass, leaves, edges, furnished, minute.
Arris
noun · 78% connection
The sharp edge or salient angle formed by two surfaces meeting each other, whether plane or curved; -- applied particularly to the edg…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: grass, leaves, edges, furnished, minute.
Bermuda grass
unknown · 78% connection
A kind of grass (Cynodon Dactylon) esteemed for pasture in the Southern United States. It is a native of Southern Europe, but is now w…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: grass, leaves, edges, furnished, minute.
Blue grass
unknown · 78% connection
A species of grass (Poa compressa) with bluish green stems, valuable in thin gravelly soils; wire grass.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: grass, leaves, edges, furnished, minute.
Briar
noun · 78% connection
A plant with a slender woody stem bearing stout prickles; especially, species of Rosa, Rubus, and Smilax.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: grass, leaves, edges, furnished, minute.
Broach
noun · 78% connection
A tool of steel, generally tapering, and of a polygonal form, with from four to eight cutting edges, for smoothing or enlarging holes…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: grass, leaves, edges, furnished, minute.
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: grass, leaves, edges, furnished, minute.
Cleavers
noun · 78% connection
A species of Galium (G. Aparine), having a fruit set with hooked bristles, which adhere to whatever they come in contact with; -- call…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: grass, leaves, edges, furnished, minute.
Cleistogamous
adjective · 78% connection
Having, beside the usual flowers, other minute, closed flowers, without petals or with minute petals; -- said of certain species of pl…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: grass, leaves, edges, furnished, minute.
Counterbore
noun · 78% connection
A kind of pin drill with the cutting edge or edges normal to the axis; -- used for enlarging a hole, or for forming a flat-bottomed re…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: grass, leaves, edges, furnished, minute.
Darnel
noun · 78% connection
Any grass of the genus Lolium, esp. the Lolium temulentum (bearded darnel), the grains of which have been reputed poisonous. Other spe…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: grass, leaves, edges, furnished, minute.
Dog's-tail grass
noun · 78% connection
A hardy species of British grass (Cynosurus cristatus) which abounds in grass lands, and is well suited for making straw plait; -- cal…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: grass, leaves, edges, furnished, minute.
Edge
verb · 78% connection
The thin cutting side of the blade of an instrument; as, the edge of an ax, knife, sword, or scythe. Hence, figuratively, that which c…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: grass, leaves, edges, furnished, minute.
Extrafoliaceous
adjective · 78% connection
Away from the leaves, or inserted in a different place from them; as, extrafoliaceous prickles.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: grass, leaves, edges, furnished, minute.
Feather-edged/
adjective · 78% connection
Having a feather-edge; also, having one edge thinner than the other, as a board; -- in the United States, said only of stuff one edge…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: grass, leaves, edges, furnished, minute.
Fiorin
noun · 78% connection
A species of creeping bent grass (Agrostis alba); -- called also fiorin grass.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: grass, leaves, edges, furnished, minute.
Gama grass
unknown · 78% connection
A species of grass (Tripsacum dactyloides) tall, stout, and exceedingly productive; cultivated in the West Indies, Mexico, and the Sou…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: grass, leaves, edges, furnished, minute.
Hedgehog
noun · 78% connection
A small European insectivore (Erinaceus Europaeus), and other allied species of Asia and Africa, having the hair on the upper part of…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: grass, leaves, edges, furnished, minute.
