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Epiphyte

An air plant which grows on other plants, but does not derive its nourishment from them. See Air plant.

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Flora 76% connected

The goddess of flowers and spring.

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Plant 76% connected

A vegetable; an organized living being, generally without feeling and voluntary motion, and having, when complete, a root, stem, and leaves, though c…

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Strangler 76% connected

One who, or that which, strangles.

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Aerophyte 92% connected

A plant growing entirely in the air, and receiving its nourishment from it; an air plant or epiphyte.

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Air plant 92% connected

A plant deriving its sustenance from the air alone; an aerophyte.

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Angiosperm noun · 86% connection

plants having seeds in a closed ovary

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Annual noun · 86% connection

(botany) a plant that completes its entire life cycle within the space of a year

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Apophysis noun · 86% connection

(botany) a natural swelling or enlargement: at the base of the stalk or seta in certain mosses or on the cone scale of certain conifers

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Bast noun · 86% connection

(botany) tissue that conducts synthesized food substances (e.g., from leaves) to parts where needed; consists primarily of sieve tubes

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Biennial noun · 86% connection

(botany) a plant having a life cycle that normally takes two seasons from germination to death to complete; flowering biennials usuall…

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Blister noun · 86% connection

(botany) a swelling on a plant similar to that on the skin

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Callus noun · 86% connection

(botany) an isolated thickening of tissue, especially a stiff protuberance on the lip of an orchid

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Calyx noun · 86% connection

(botany) the whorl of sepals of a flower collectively forming the outer floral envelope or layer of the perianth enclosing and support…

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Coma noun · 86% connection

(botany) a usually terminal tuft of bracts (as in the pineapple) or tuft of hairs (especially on certain seeds)

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Corolla noun · 86% connection

(botany) the whorl of petals of a flower that collectively form an inner floral envelope or layer of the perianth; "we cultivate the f…

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Corona noun · 86% connection

(botany) the trumpet-shaped or cup-shaped outgrowth of the corolla of a daffodil or narcissus flower

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Embryo noun · 86% connection

(botany) a minute rudimentary plant contained within a seed or an archegonium

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Fern noun · 86% connection

any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward; reproduce by s…

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Flowering plant noun · 86% connection

plants having seeds in a closed ovary

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Germ tube noun · 86% connection

(botany) a slender tubular outgrowth from a spore in germination

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Leaf node noun · 86% connection

(botany) the small swelling that is the part of a plant stem from which one or more leaves emerge

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Ligule noun · 86% connection

(botany) any appendage to a plant that is shaped like a strap

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Lip noun · 86% connection

(botany) either of the two parts of a bilabiate corolla or calyx

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Axiomatic system noun · 78% connection

any set of axioms from which some or all axioms can be used in conjunction to logically derive theorems.; "An axiomatic system is said…

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Bluebottle noun · 78% connection

A plant (Centaurea cyanus) which grows in grain fields. It receives its name from its blue bottle-shaped flowers.

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Buck bean unknown · 78% connection

A plant (Menyanthes trifoliata) which grows in moist and boggy places, having racemes of white or reddish flowers and intensely bitter…

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Bulb noun · 78% connection

A spheroidal body growing from a plant either above or below the ground (usually below), which is strictly a bud, consisting of a clus…

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Candock noun · 78% connection

A plant or weed that grows in rivers; a species of Equisetum; also, the yellow frog lily (Nuphar luteum).

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Climber noun · 78% connection

a vine or climbing plant that readily grows up a support or over other plants

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Cockle noun · 78% connection

A plant or weed that grows among grain; the corn rose (Luchnis Githage).

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Deduce verb · 78% connection

To derive or draw; to derive by logical process; to obtain or arrive at as the result of reasoning; to gather, as a truth or opinion,…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: plant, grows, plants, derive, nourishment.
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Dicot noun · 78% connection

flowering plant with two cotyledons; the stem grows by deposit on its outside

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Droop verb · 78% connection

To hang bending downward; to sink or hang down, as an animal, plant, etc., from physical inability or exhaustion, want of nourishment,…

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