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Flora

The goddess of flowers and spring.

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Broader term 6

Accumulation 76% connected

The act of accumulating, the state of being accumulated, or that which is accumulated; as, an accumulation of earth, of sand, of evils, of wealth, of…

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Aggregation 76% connected

The act of aggregating, or the state of being aggregated; collection into a mass or sum; a collection of particulars; an aggregate.

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Assemblage 76% connected

The act of assembling, or the state of being assembled; association.

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Being 76% connected

of Be

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Collection 76% connected

The act or process of collecting or of gathering; as, the collection of specimens.

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Organism 76% connected

Organic structure; organization.

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Narrower term 34

Acrogen 76% connected

A plant of the highest class of cryptogams, including the ferns, etc. See Cryptogamia.

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Aerophyte 76% connected

A plant growing entirely in the air, and receiving its nourishment from it; an air plant or epiphyte.

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Air plant 76% connected

A plant deriving its sustenance from the air alone; an aerophyte.

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Annual 76% connected

Of or pertaining to a year; returning every year; coming or happening once in the year; yearly.

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Aquatic 76% connected

Pertaining to water; growing in water; living in, swimming in, or frequenting the margins of waters; as, aquatic plants and fowls.

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autotroph 76% connected

An organism that produces its own food, typically through photosynthesis

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Biennial 76% connected

Happening, or taking place, once in two years; as, a biennial election.

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Brier 76% connected

Alt. of Briar

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Browse 76% connected

The tender branches or twigs of trees and shrubs, fit for the food of cattle and other animals; green food.

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Brush 76% connected

An instrument composed of bristles, or other like material, set in a suitable back or handle, as of wood, bone, or ivory, and used for various purpos…

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Brushwood 76% connected

Brush; a thicket or coppice of small trees and shrubs.

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Bush 76% connected

A thicket, or place abounding in trees or shrubs; a wild forest.

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Chaparral 76% connected

A thicket of low evergreen oaks.

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Coppice 76% connected

A grove of small growth; a thicket of brushwood; a wood cut at certain times for fuel or other purposes. See Copse.

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Copse 76% connected

A wood of small growth; a thicket of brushwood. See Coppice.

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Crop 76% connected

The pouchlike enlargement of the gullet of birds, serving as a receptacle for food; the craw.

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Cryptogam 76% connected

A plant belonging to the Cryptogamia.

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Embryo 76% connected

The first rudiments of an organism, whether animal or plant

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Epiphyte 76% connected

An air plant which grows on other plants, but does not derive its nourishment from them. See Air plant.

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Escape 76% connected

To flee from and avoid; to be saved or exempt from; to shun; to obtain security from; as, to escape danger.

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Forest 76% connected

An extensive wood; a large tract of land covered with trees; in the United States, a wood of native growth, or a tract of woodland which has never be…

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Garden 76% connected

A piece of ground appropriated to the cultivation of herbs, fruits, flowers, or vegetables.

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Growth 76% connected

The process of growing; the gradual increase of an animal or a vegetable body; the development from a seed, germ, or root, to full size or maturity;…

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Monocarp 76% connected

A monocarpic plant.

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Neophyte 76% connected

A new convert or proselyte; -- a name given by the early Christians, and still given by the Roman Catholics, to such as have recently embraced the Ch…

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Ornamental 76% connected

Serving to ornament; characterized by ornament; beautifying; embellishing.

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Perennial 76% connected

ing or continuing through the year; as, perennial fountains.

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Plantlet 76% connected

A little plant.

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Scrub 76% connected

To rub hard; to wash with rubbing; usually, to rub with a wet brush, or with something coarse or rough, for the purpose of cleaning or brightening; a…

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Shrubbery 76% connected

A collection of shrubs.

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Stand 76% connected

To be at rest in an erect position; to be fixed in an upright or firm position

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Thicket 76% connected

A wood or a collection of trees, shrubs, etc., closely set; as, a ram caught in a thicket.

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Wilding 76% connected

A wild or uncultivated plant; especially, a wild apple tree or crab apple; also, the fruit of such a plant.

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Wood 76% connected

Mad; insane; possessed; rabid; furious; frantic.

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Derivationally related 6

Plant 74% connected

A vegetable; an organized living being, generally without feeling and voluntary motion, and having, when complete, a root, stem, and leaves, though c…

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Plant 74% connected

A vegetable; an organized living being, generally without feeling and voluntary motion, and having, when complete, a root, stem, and leaves, though c…

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Plantal 74% connected

Belonging to plants; as, plantal life.

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Plantal 74% connected

Belonging to plants; as, plantal life.

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Plantlet 74% connected

A little plant.

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Plantlet 74% connected

A little plant.

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Containing group 1

Biology 70% connected

The science of life; that branch of knowledge which treats of living matter as distinct from matter which is not living; the study of living tissue.…

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Component part 2

Cap 70% connected

A covering for the head

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Hood 70% connected

State; condition.

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Synonym 3

Botany 92% connected

The science which treats of the structure of plants, the functions of their parts, their places of growth, their classification, and the terms which…

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Plant 92% connected

A vegetable; an organized living being, generally without feeling and voluntary motion, and having, when complete, a root, stem, and leaves, though c…

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Vegetation 92% connected

The act or process of vegetating, or growing as a plant does; vegetable growth.

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Fauna 94% connected

The animals of any given area or epoch; as, the fauna of America; fossil fauna; recent fauna.

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Fauna 94% connected

The animals of any given area or epoch; as, the fauna of America; fossil fauna; recent fauna.

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