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-ferous
unknown · 78% connection
A suffix signifying bearing, producing, yielding; as, auriferous, yielding gold; chyliferous, producing chyle.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pertaining, producing, fruit.
Acarpous
adjective · 78% connection
Not producing fruit; unfruitful.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pertaining, producing, fruit.
Acetic
adjective · 78% connection
Of a pertaining to vinegar; producing vinegar; producing vinegar; as, acetic fermentation.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pertaining, producing, fruit.
Afford
verb · 78% connection
To give forth; to supply, yield, or produce as the natural result, fruit, or issue; as, grapes afford wine; olives afford oil; the ear…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pertaining, producing, fruit.
Amphicarpous
adjective · 78% connection
Producing fruit of two kinds, either as to form or time of ripening.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pertaining, producing, fruit.
Anchovy pear
unknown · 78% connection
A West Indian fruit like the mango in taste, sometimes pickled; also, the tree (Grias cauliflora) bearing this fruit.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pertaining, producing, fruit.
Apricot
noun · 78% connection
A fruit allied to the plum, of an orange color, oval shape, and delicious taste; also, the tree (Prunus Armeniaca of Linnaeus) which b…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pertaining, producing, fruit.
Barren
adjective · 78% connection
Incapable of producing offspring; producing no young; sterile; -- said of women and female animals.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pertaining, producing, fruit.
Bergamot
noun · 78% connection
A tree of the Orange family (Citrus bergamia), having a roundish or pear-shaped fruit, from the rind of which an essential oil of deli…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pertaining, producing, fruit.
Blower
noun · 78% connection
A device for producing a current of air; as: (a) A metal plate temporarily placed before the upper part of a grate or open fire. (b) A…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pertaining, producing, fruit.
Bruise
noun · 78% connection
An injury to the flesh of animals, or to plants, fruit, etc., with a blunt or heavy instrument, or by collision with some other body;…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pertaining, producing, fruit.
Carpogenic
adjective · 78% connection
Productive of fruit, or causing fruit to be developed.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pertaining, producing, fruit.
Carpophyll
noun · 78% connection
A leaf converted into a fruit or a constituent portion of a fruit; a carpel. [See Illust. of Gymnospermous.]
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pertaining, producing, fruit.
Caryopsis
noun · 78% connection
A one-celled, dry, indehiscent fruit, with a thin membranous pericarp, adhering closely to the seed, so that fruit and seed are incorp…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pertaining, producing, fruit.
Cherry
noun · 78% connection
any of numerous trees and shrubs producing a small fleshy round fruit with a single hard stone; many also produce a valuable hardwood
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pertaining, producing, fruit.
Chokecherry
noun · 78% connection
The astringent fruit of a species of wild cherry (Prunus Virginiana); also, the bush or tree which bears such fruit.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pertaining, producing, fruit.
Crop
noun · 78% connection
That which is cropped, cut, or gathered from a single felld, or of a single kind of grain or fruit, or in a single season; especially,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pertaining, producing, fruit.
Cucumber
noun · 78% connection
A creeping plant, and its fruit, of several species of the genus Cucumis, esp. Cucumis sativus, the unripe fruit of which is eaten eit…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pertaining, producing, fruit.
