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Albino
noun · 78% connection
A person, whether negro, Indian, or white, in whom by some defect of organization the substance which gives color to the skin, hair, a…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: distinct, upper, lower, surfaces, common.
Alligator
noun · 78% connection
A large carnivorous reptile of the Crocodile family, peculiar to America. It has a shorter and broader snout than the crocodile, and t…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: distinct, upper, lower, surfaces, common.
Blockhouse
noun · 78% connection
An edifice or structure of heavy timbers or logs for military defense, having its sides loopholed for musketry, and often an upper sto…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: distinct, upper, lower, surfaces, common.
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: distinct, upper, lower, surfaces, common.
Cathetometer
noun · 78% connection
An instrument for the accurate measurement of small differences of height; esp. of the differences in the height of the upper surfaces…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: distinct, upper, lower, surfaces, common.
Contact
noun · 78% connection
The property of two curves, or surfaces, which meet, and at the point of meeting have a common direction.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: distinct, upper, lower, surfaces, common.
Diagonal
noun · 78% connection
(mathematics) a set of entries in a square matrix running diagonally either from the upper left to lower right entry or running from t…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: distinct, upper, lower, surfaces, common.
Endogen
noun · 78% connection
A plant which increases in size by internal growth and elongation at the summit, having the wood in the form of bundles or threads, ir…
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Epidermis
verb · 78% connection
The outermost layer of the cells, which covers both surfaces of leaves, and also the surface of stems, when they are first formed. As…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: distinct, upper, lower, surfaces, common.
Equitant
adjective · 78% connection
Overlapping each other; -- said of leaves whose bases are folded so as to overlap and bestride the leaves within or above them, as in…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: distinct, upper, lower, surfaces, common.
Flag
noun · 78% connection
An aquatic plant, with long, ensiform leaves, belonging to either of the genera Iris and Acorus.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: distinct, upper, lower, surfaces, common.
Flower-de-luce
noun · 78% connection
A genus of perennial herbs (Iris) with swordlike leaves and large three-petaled flowers often of very gay colors, but probably white i…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: distinct, upper, lower, surfaces, common.
Flytrap
noun · 78% connection
A plant (Dionaea muscipula), called also Venus's flytrap, the leaves of which are fringed with stiff bristles, and fold together when…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: distinct, upper, lower, surfaces, common.
Gladen
noun · 78% connection
Sword grass; any plant with sword-shaped leaves, esp. the European Iris foetidissima.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: distinct, upper, lower, surfaces, common.
Grivet
noun · 78% connection
A monkey of the upper Nile and Abyssinia (Cercopithecus griseo-viridis), having the upper parts dull green, the lower parts white, the…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: distinct, upper, lower, surfaces, common.
Illustration
noun · 78% connection
The act of illustrating; the act of making clear and distinct; education; also, the state of being illustrated, or of being made clear…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: distinct, upper, lower, surfaces, common.
Lens
noun · 78% connection
A piece of glass, or other transparent substance, ground with two opposite regular surfaces, either both curved, or one curved and the…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: distinct, upper, lower, surfaces, common.
Lower
adjective · 78% connection
To let descend by its own weight, as something suspended; to let down; as, to lower a bucket into a well; to lower a sail or a boat; s…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: distinct, upper, lower, surfaces, common.
