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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: genus, belongs, single, species, camphora.
Analogue
noun · 78% connection
A species or genus in one country closely related to a species of the same genus, or a genus of the same group, in another: such speci…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, belongs, single, species, camphora.
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…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, belongs, single, species, camphora.
Argus
noun · 78% connection
A genus of East Indian pheasants. The common species (A. giganteus) is remarkable for the great length and beauty of the wing and tail…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, belongs, single, species, camphora.
Asarone
noun · 78% connection
A crystallized substance, resembling camphor, obtained from the Asarum Europaeum; -- called also camphor of asarum.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, belongs, single, species, camphora.
Benzoin
noun · 78% connection
A resinous substance, dry and brittle, obtained from the Styrax benzoin, a tree of Sumatra, Java, etc., having a fragrant odor, and sl…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, belongs, single, species, camphora.
Betulin
noun · 78% connection
A substance of a resinous nature, obtained from the outer bark of the common European birch (Betula alba), or from the tar prepared th…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, belongs, single, species, camphora.
Binomial
adjective · 78% connection
Having two names; -- used of the system by which every animal and plant receives two names, the one indicating the genus, the other th…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, belongs, single, species, camphora.
Borneol
noun · 78% connection
A rare variety of camphor, C10H17.OH, resembling ordinary camphor, from which it can be produced by reduction. It is said to occur in…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, belongs, single, species, camphora.
Breve
noun · 78% connection
The great ant thrush of Sumatra (Pitta gigas), which has a very short tail.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, belongs, single, species, camphora.
Camphor
noun · 78% connection
A gum resembling ordinary camphor, obtained from a tree (Dryobalanops camphora) growing in Sumatra and Borneo; -- called also Malay ca…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, belongs, single, species, camphora.
Camphoraceous
adjective · 78% connection
Of the nature of camphor; containing camphor.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, belongs, single, species, camphora.
Crop
noun · 78% connection
That which is cropped, cut, or gathered from a single felld, or of a single kind of grain or fruit, or in a single season; especially,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, belongs, single, species, camphora.
Cubeb
noun · 78% connection
The small, spicy berry of a species of pepper (Piper Cubeba; in med., Cubeba officinalis), native in Java and Borneo, but now cultivat…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, belongs, single, species, camphora.
Guttiferous
adjective · 78% connection
Yielding gum or resinous substances.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, belongs, single, species, camphora.
Haematoxylon
noun · 78% connection
A genus of leguminous plants containing but a single species, the H. Campechianum or logwood tree, native in Yucatan.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, belongs, single, species, camphora.
Hornblende
noun · 78% connection
The common black, or dark green or brown, variety of amphibole. (See Amphibole.) It belongs to the aluminous division of the species,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, belongs, single, species, camphora.
Kanchil
noun · 78% connection
A small chevrotain of the genus Tragulus, esp. T. pygmaeus, or T. kanchil, inhabiting Java, Sumatra, and adjacent islands; a deerlet.…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, belongs, single, species, camphora.
