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Flagellum

A young, flexible shoot of a plant; esp., the long trailing branch of a vine, or a slender branch in certain mosses.

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Appendage 76% connected

Something appended to, or accompanying, a principal or greater thing, though not necessary to it, as a portico to a house.

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Outgrowth 76% connected

That which grows out of, or proceeds from, anything; an excrescence; an offshoot; hence, a result or consequence.

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Process 76% connected

The act of proceeding; continued forward movement; procedure; progress; advance.

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Whip 76% connected

To strike with a lash, a cord, a rod, or anything slender and lithe; to lash; to beat; as, to whip a horse, or a carpet.

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Flagellate 74% connected

To whip; to scourge; to flog.

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Flagellate 74% connected

To whip; to scourge; to flog.

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Scourge 74% connected

A lash; a strap or cord; especially, a lash used to inflict pain or punishment; an instrument of punishment or discipline; a whip.

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Scourge 74% connected

A lash; a strap or cord; especially, a lash used to inflict pain or punishment; an instrument of punishment or discipline; a whip.

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Sperm 70% connected

The male fecundating fluid; semen. See Semen.

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Spermatozoon 70% connected

Same as Spermatozoid.

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Scourge 92% connected

A lash; a strap or cord; especially, a lash used to inflict pain or punishment; an instrument of punishment or discipline; a whip.

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Anhinga noun · 78% connection

fish-eating bird of warm inland waters having a long flexible neck and slender sharp-pointed bill

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Apophysis noun · 78% 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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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…

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Branch noun · 78% connection

Any division extending like a branch; any arm or part connected with the main body of thing; ramification; as, the branch of an antler…

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Darter noun · 78% connection

fish-eating bird of warm inland waters having a long flexible neck and slender sharp-pointed bill

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Dodder noun · 78% connection

A plant of the genus Cuscuta. It is a leafless parasitical vine with yellowish threadlike stems. It attaches itself to some other plan…

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Flagelliform adjective · 78% connection

Shaped like a whiplash; long, slender, round, flexible, and (comming) tapering.

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Fusillade verb · 78% connection

To shoot down of shoot at by a simultaneous discharge of firearms.

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Hyalonema noun · 78% connection

A genus of hexactinelline sponges, having a long stem composed of very long, slender, transparent, siliceous fibres twisted together l…

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Innovation noun · 78% connection

A newly formed shoot, or the annually produced addition to the stems of many mosses.

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Long adjective · 78% connection

primarily temporal sense; being or indicating a relatively great or greater than average duration or passage of time or a duration as…

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Long-lived adjective · 78% connection

Having a long life; having constitutional peculiarities which make long life probable; lasting long; as, a long-lived tree; they are a…

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Muscales n. pl. · 78% connection

An old name for mosses in the widest sense, including the true mosses and also hepaticae and sphagna.

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Oophore noun · 78% connection

An alternately produced form of certain cryptogamous plants, as ferns, mosses, and the like, which bears antheridia and archegonia, an…

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Peanut noun · 78% connection

The fruit of a trailing leguminous plant (Arachis hypogaea); also, the plant itself, which is widely cultivated for its fruit.

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Pedicel noun · 78% connection

A slender support of any special organ, as that of a capsule in mosses, an air vesicle in algae, or a sporangium in ferns.

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Raddle noun · 78% connection

A long, flexible stick, rod, or branch, which is interwoven with others, between upright posts or stakes, in making a kind of hedge or…

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Rattan noun · 78% connection

One of the long slender flexible stems of several species of palms of the genus Calamus, mostly East Indian, though some are African a…

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