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Annular
adjective · 78% connection
Pertaining to, or having the form of, a ring; forming a ring; ringed; ring-shaped; as, annular fibers.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: sporangium, destitute, ring, said, certain.
Bacterium
noun · 78% connection
A microscopic vegetable organism, belonging to the class Algae, usually in the form of a jointed rodlike filament, and found in putref…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: sporangium, destitute, ring, said, certain.
Blank
adjective · 78% connection
Lacking characteristics which give variety; as, a blank desert; a blank wall; destitute of interests, affections, hopes, etc.; as, to…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: sporangium, destitute, ring, said, certain.
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: sporangium, destitute, ring, said, certain.
Buckler fern
noun · 78% connection
any of various ferns of the genera Dryopteris or Polystichum or Lastreopsis having somewhat shield-shaped coverings on the sori
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: sporangium, destitute, ring, said, certain.
Catadromous
adjective · 78% connection
Having the lowest inferior segment of a pinna nearer the rachis than the lowest superior one; -- said of a mode of branching in ferns,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: sporangium, destitute, ring, said, certain.
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: sporangium, destitute, ring, said, certain.
Dark
adjective · 78% connection
Destitute, or partially destitute, of light; not receiving, reflecting, or radiating light; wholly or partially black, or of some deep…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: sporangium, destitute, ring, said, certain.
Dorsiferous
unknown · 78% connection
Bearing, or producing, on the back; -- applied to ferns which produce seeds on the back of the leaf, and to certain Batrachia, the ova…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: sporangium, destitute, ring, said, certain.
Fern genus
noun · 78% connection
genera of ferns and fern allies
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: sporangium, destitute, ring, said, certain.
Gimbals
noun · 78% connection
A contrivance for permitting a body to incline freely in all directions, or for suspending anything, as a barometer, ship's compass, c…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: sporangium, destitute, ring, said, certain.
Heterocycle
noun · 78% connection
a ring of atoms of more than one kind; especially a ring of carbon atoms containing at least one atom that is not carbon
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: sporangium, destitute, ring, said, certain.
Heterocyclic ring
noun · 78% connection
a ring of atoms of more than one kind; especially a ring of carbon atoms containing at least one atom that is not carbon
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: sporangium, destitute, ring, said, certain.
Interosculant
adjective · 78% connection
Uniting two groups; -- said of certain genera which connect family groups, or of species that connect genera. See Osculant.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: sporangium, destitute, ring, said, certain.
Involucre
noun · 78% connection
A continuous marginal covering of sporangia, in certain ferns, as in the common brake, or the cup-shaped processes of the filmy ferns.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: sporangium, destitute, ring, said, certain.
Keeper
noun · 78% connection
A ring, strap, clamp, or any device for holding an object in place; as: (a) The box on a door jamb into which the bolt of a lock protr…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: sporangium, destitute, ring, said, certain.
Lentinus lepideus
noun · 78% connection
a fungus with a scaly cap and white flesh and a ring on the stalk (with scales below the ring); odor reminiscent of licorice
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: sporangium, destitute, ring, said, certain.
Macrosporangium
noun · 78% connection
A sporangium or conceptacle containing only large spores; -- opposed to microsporangium. Both are found in the genera Selaginella, Iso…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: sporangium, destitute, ring, said, certain.
