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Adelphous
adjective · 78% connection
Having coalescent or clustered filaments; -- said of stamens; as, adelphous stamens. Usually in composition; as, monadelphous.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: standing, projecting, beyond, some, part.
androus
unknown · 78% connection
A terminal combining form: Having a stamen or stamens; staminate; as, monandrous, with one stamen; polyandrous, with many stamens.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: standing, projecting, beyond, some, part.
Anisostemonous
adjective · 78% connection
Having unequal stamens; having stamens different in number from the petals.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: standing, projecting, beyond, some, part.
Apse
noun · 78% connection
A projecting part of a building, esp. of a church, having in the plan a polygonal or semicircular termination, and, most often, projec…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: standing, projecting, beyond, some, part.
Balcony
noun · 78% connection
A platform projecting from the wall of a building, usually resting on brackets or consoles, and inclosed by a parapet; as, a balcony i…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: standing, projecting, beyond, some, part.
Beyond
preposition · 78% connection
Past, out of the reach or sphere of; further than; greater than; as, the patient was beyond medical aid; beyond one's strength.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: standing, projecting, beyond, some, part.
Bumkin
noun · 78% connection
A projecting beam or boom; as: (a) One projecting from each bow of a vessel, to haul the fore tack to, called a tack bumpkin. (b) One…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: standing, projecting, beyond, some, part.
Column
noun · 78% connection
The body formed by the union of the stamens in the Mallow family, or of the stamens and pistil in the orchids.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: standing, projecting, beyond, some, part.
Concrete
adjective · 78% connection
Standing for an object as it exists in nature, invested with all its qualities, as distinguished from standing for an attribute of an…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: standing, projecting, beyond, some, part.
Diadelphous
adjective · 78% connection
Of or pertaining to the class Diadelphia; having the stamens united into two bodies by their filaments (said of a plant or flower); gr…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: standing, projecting, beyond, some, part.
Double
adjective · 78% connection
Having the petals in a flower considerably increased beyond the natural number, usually as the result of cultivation and the expense o…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: standing, projecting, beyond, some, part.
Ethereal
adjective · 78% connection
Pertaining to the hypothetical upper, purer air, or to the higher regions beyond the earth or beyond the atmosphere; celestial; as, et…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: standing, projecting, beyond, some, part.
Exceed
verb · 78% connection
To go beyond; to proceed beyond the given or supposed limit or measure of; to outgo; to surpass; -- used both in a good and a bad sens…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: standing, projecting, beyond, some, part.
File
noun · 78% connection
A row of soldiers ranged one behind another; -- in contradistinction to rank, which designates a row of soldiers standing abreast; a n…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: standing, projecting, beyond, some, part.
Foot
noun · 78% connection
The terminal part of the leg of man or an animal; esp., the part below the ankle or wrist; that part of an animal upon which it rests…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: standing, projecting, beyond, some, part.
Fringe
noun · 78% connection
An ornamental appendage to the border of a piece of stuff, originally consisting of the ends of the warp, projecting beyond the woven…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: standing, projecting, beyond, some, part.
Heel
noun · 78% connection
The hinder part of any covering for the foot, as of a shoe, sock, etc.; specif., a solid part projecting downward from the hinder part…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: standing, projecting, beyond, some, part.
Hypogynous
adjective · 78% connection
Inserted below the pistil or pistils; -- said of sepals, petals, and stamens; having the sepals, petals, and stamens inserted below th…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: standing, projecting, beyond, some, part.
