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-ferous
unknown · 78% connection
A suffix signifying bearing, producing, yielding; as, auriferous, yielding gold; chyliferous, producing chyle.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: bearing, producing, back, applied, ferns.
Acotyledonous
adjective · 78% connection
Having no seed lobes, as the dodder; also applied to plants which have no true seeds, as ferns, mosses, etc.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: bearing, producing, back, applied, ferns.
Adder's-tongue
noun · 78% connection
A genus of ferns (Ophioglossum), whose seeds are produced on a spike resembling a serpent's tongue.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: bearing, producing, back, applied, ferns.
Application
noun · 78% connection
liquid preparation having a soothing or antiseptic or medicinal action when applied to the skin; "a lotion for dry skin"
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: bearing, producing, back, applied, ferns.
Attachment
noun · 78% connection
Something attached; some adjunct attached to an instrument, machine, or other object; as, a sewing machine attachment (i. e., a device…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: bearing, producing, back, applied, ferns.
Batrachian
adjective · 78% connection
Pertaining to the Batrachia.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: bearing, producing, back, applied, ferns.
Bearing
noun · 78% connection
The act, power, or time of producing or giving birth; as, a tree in full bearing; a tree past bearing.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: bearing, producing, back, applied, ferns.
Blade
noun · 78% connection
Properly, the leaf, or flat part of the leaf, of any plant, especially of gramineous plants. The term is sometimes applied to the spir…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: bearing, producing, back, applied, ferns.
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: bearing, producing, back, applied, ferns.
Chaffy
adjective · 78% connection
Bearing or covered with dry scales, as the under surface of certain ferns, or the disk of some composite flowers.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: bearing, producing, back, applied, ferns.
Cleche
adjective · 78% connection
Charged with another bearing of the same figure, and of the color of the field, so large that only a narrow border of the first bearin…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: bearing, producing, back, applied, ferns.
Dermis
noun · 78% connection
The deep sensitive layer of the skin beneath the scarfskin or epidermis; -- called also true skin, derm, derma, corium, cutis, and end…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: bearing, producing, back, applied, ferns.
Electro-motive
adjective · 78% connection
Producing electro-motion; producing, or tending to produce, electricity or an electric current; causing electrical action or effects.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: bearing, producing, back, applied, ferns.
Engraving
noun · 78% connection
The act or art of producing upon hard material incised or raised patterns, characters, lines, and the like; especially, the art of pro…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: bearing, producing, back, applied, ferns.
Epiphylospermous
adjective · 78% connection
Bearing fruit on the back of the leaves, as ferns.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: bearing, producing, back, applied, ferns.
Exarillate
adjective · 78% connection
Having no aril; -- said of certain seeds, or of the plants producing them.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: bearing, producing, back, applied, ferns.
Frond
noun · 78% connection
The organ formed by the combination or union into one body of stem and leaf, and often bearing the fructification; as, the frond of a…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: bearing, producing, back, applied, ferns.
Hypophyllous
adjective · 78% connection
Being or growing on the under side of a leaf, as the fruit dots of ferns.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: bearing, producing, back, applied, ferns.
