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Enation

Any unusual outgrowth from the surface of a thing, as of a petal; also, the capacity or act of producing such an outgrowth.

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Aculeus 76% connected

A prickle growing on the bark, as in some brambles and roses.

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Acumen 76% connected

Quickness of perception or discernment; penetration of mind; the faculty of nice discrimination.

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Apophysis 76% connected

A marked prominence or process on any part of a bone.

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Blister 76% connected

A vesicle of the skin, containing watery matter or serum, whether occasioned by a burn or other injury, or by a vesicatory; a collection of serous fl…

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Burl 76% connected

To dress or finish up (cloth); to pick knots, burs, loose threads, etc., from, as in finishing cloth.

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Callus 76% connected

Same as Callosity

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Fuzz 76% connected

To make drunk.

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Hair 76% connected

The collection or mass of filaments growing from the skin of an animal, and forming a covering for a part of the head or for any part or the whole of…

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Haustorium 76% connected

One of the suckerlike rootlets of such plants as the dodder and ivy.

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Node 76% connected

A knot, a knob; a protuberance; a swelling.

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Nodule 76% connected

A rounded mass or irregular shape; a little knot or lump.

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Peristome 76% connected

The fringe of teeth around the orifice of the capsule of mosses. It consists of 4, 8, 16, 32, or 64 teeth, and may be either single or double.

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Podetium 76% connected

A stalk which bears the fructification in some lichens, as in the so-called reindeer moss.

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Spur 76% connected

A sparrow.

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Tomentum 76% connected

The closely matted hair or downy nap covering the leaves or stems of some plants.

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Tubercle 76% connected

A small knoblike prominence or excrescence, whether natural or morbid; as, a tubercle on a plant; a tubercle on a bone; the tubercles appearing on th…

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Appendage 76% connected

Something appended to, or accompanying, a principal or greater thing, though not necessary to it, as a portico to a house.

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Outgrowth 76% connected

That which grows out of, or proceeds from, anything; an excrescence; an offshoot; hence, a result or consequence.

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Process 76% connected

The act of proceeding; continued forward movement; procedure; progress; advance.

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Cognation 92% connected

Relationship by blood; descent from the same original; kindred.

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