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Actinomycosis
noun · 78% connection
disease of cattle that can be transmitted to humans; results from infection with actinomycetes; characterized by hard swellings that e…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: suspended, strung, upon, thread, said.
Aerial
adjective · 78% connection
Growing, forming, or existing in the air, as opposed to growing or existing in earth or water, or underground; as, aerial rootlets, ae…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: suspended, strung, upon, thread, said.
Bead
noun · 78% connection
A little perforated ball, to be strung on a thread, and worn for ornament; or used in a rosary for counting prayers, as by Roman Catho…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: suspended, strung, upon, thread, said.
Caesura
noun · 78% connection
A metrical break in a verse, occurring in the middle of a foot and commonly near the middle of the verse; a sense pause in the middle…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: suspended, strung, upon, thread, said.
Callus
noun · 78% connection
The new formation over the end of a cutting, before it puts out rootlets.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: suspended, strung, upon, thread, said.
Center
noun · 78% connection
A point equally distant from the extremities of a line, figure, or body, or from all parts of the circumference of a circle; the middl…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: suspended, strung, upon, thread, said.
Cittern
noun · 78% connection
An instrument shaped like a lute, but strung with wire and played with a quill or plectrum.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: suspended, strung, upon, thread, said.
Climb
verb · 78% connection
To ascend or creep upward by twining about a support, or by attaching itself by tendrils, rootlets, etc., to a support or upright surf…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: suspended, strung, upon, thread, said.
Clubroot fungus
noun · 78% connection
a fungus resembling slime mold that causes swellings or distortions of the roots of cabbages and related plants
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: suspended, strung, upon, thread, said.
Creep
verb · 78% connection
To grow, as a vine, clinging to the ground or to some other support by means of roots or rootlets, or by tendrils, along its length.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: suspended, strung, upon, thread, said.
Creeper
noun · 78% connection
A plant that clings by rootlets, or by tendrils, to the ground, or to trees, etc.; as, the Virginia creeper (Ampelopsis quinquefolia).
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: suspended, strung, upon, thread, said.
Creeping
adjective · 78% connection
Growing along, and clinging to, the ground, or to a wall, etc., by means of rootlets or tendrils.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: suspended, strung, upon, thread, said.
Cruels
n. pl. · 78% connection
Glandular scrofulous swellings in the neck.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: suspended, strung, upon, thread, said.
Delicate
adjective · 78% connection
Fine or slender; minute; not coarse; -- said of a thread, or the like; as, delicate cotton.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: suspended, strung, upon, thread, said.
Diapasm
noun · 78% connection
Powdered aromatic herbs, sometimes made into little balls and strung together.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: suspended, strung, upon, thread, said.
Fibre
noun · 78% connection
Any fine, slender thread, or threadlike substance; as, a fiber of spun glass; especially, one of the slender rootlets of a plant.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: suspended, strung, upon, thread, said.
Fiddlestick
noun · 78% connection
The bow, strung with horsehair, used in playing the fiddle; a fiddle bow.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: suspended, strung, upon, thread, said.
Filament
noun · 78% connection
A thread or threadlike object or appendage; a fiber; esp. (Bot.), the threadlike part of the stamen supporting the anther.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: suspended, strung, upon, thread, said.
