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Fig

A small fruit tree (Ficus Carica) with large leaves, known from the remotest antiquity. It was probably native from Syria westward to the Canary Islands.

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Illustration 76% connected

The act of illustrating; the act of making clear and distinct; education; also, the state of being illustrated, or of being made clear and distinct.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Syconium 70% connected

Alt. of Syconus

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Figure 92% connected

The form of anything; shape; outline; appearance.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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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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Antiquity noun · 78% connection

The quality of being ancient; ancientness; great age; as, a statue of remarkable antiquity; a family of great antiquity.

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Ascend verb · 78% connection

To rise, in a figurative sense; to proceed from an inferior to a superior degree, from mean to noble objects, from particulars to gene…

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Banyan noun · 78% connection

A tree of the same genus as the common fig, and called the Indian fig (Ficus Indica), whose branches send shoots to the ground, which…

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Breadfruit noun · 78% connection

The tree itself, which is one of considerable size, with large, lobed leaves. Cloth is made from the bark, and the timber is used for…

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Daroo noun · 78% connection

The Egyptian sycamore (Ficus Sycamorus). See Sycamore.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, fruit, tree, ficus, carica.
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Endmost adjective · 78% connection

Farthest; remotest; at the very end.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, fruit, tree, ficus, carica.
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Extremity noun · 78% connection

The extreme part; the utmost limit; the farthest or remotest point or part; as, the extremities of a country.

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Eysell noun · 78% connection

Same as Eisel. F () F is the sixth letter of the English alphabet, and a nonvocal consonant. Its form and sound are from the Latin. Th…

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Fan palm unknown · 78% connection

Any palm tree having fan-shaped or radiate leaves; as the Chamaerops humilis of Southern Europe; the species of Sabal and Thrinax in t…

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Ficus noun · 78% connection

A genus of trees or shrubs, one species of which (F. Carica) produces the figs of commerce; the fig tree.

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Graft noun · 78% connection

A small shoot or scion of a tree inserted in another tree, the stock of which is to support and nourish it. The two unite and become o…

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Granadilla noun · 78% connection

The fruit of certain species of passion flower (esp. Passiflora quadrangularis) found in Brazil and the West Indies. It is as large as…

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