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Abutilon
noun · 78% connection
A genus of malvaceous plants of many species, found in the torrid and temperate zones of both continents; -- called also Indian mallow.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, plants, including, mangosteen, tree.
Aleutic
adjective · 78% connection
Of or pertaining to a chain of islands between Alaska and Kamtchatka; also, designating these islands.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, plants, including, mangosteen, tree.
Archipelago
noun · 78% connection
The Grecian Archipelago, or Aegean Sea, separating Greece from Asia Minor. It is studded with a vast number of small islands.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, plants, including, mangosteen, tree.
Arrack
noun · 78% connection
A name in the East Indies and the Indian islands for all ardent spirits. Arrack is often distilled from a fermented mixture of rice, m…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, plants, including, mangosteen, tree.
Artemisia
noun · 78% connection
A genus of plants including the plants called mugwort, southernwood, and wormwood. Of these A. absinthium, or common wormwood, is well…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, plants, including, mangosteen, tree.
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…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, plants, including, mangosteen, tree.
Breadfruit
noun · 78% connection
The fruit of a tree (Artocarpus incisa) found in the islands of the Pacific, esp. the South Sea islands. It is of a roundish form, fro…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, plants, including, mangosteen, tree.
Broom rape
unknown · 78% connection
A genus (Orobanche) of parasitic plants of Europe and Asia. They are destitute of chlorophyll, have scales instead of leaves, and spik…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, plants, including, mangosteen, tree.
Canna
noun · 78% connection
A genus of tropical plants, with large leaves and often with showy flowers. The Indian shot (C. Indica) is found in gardens of the nor…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, plants, including, mangosteen, tree.
Carib
noun · 78% connection
A native of the Caribbee islands or the coasts of the Caribbean sea; esp., one of a tribe of Indians inhabiting a region of South Amer…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, plants, including, mangosteen, tree.
Caribbee
adjective · 78% connection
Of or pertaining to the Caribs, to their islands (the eastern and southern West Indies), or to the sea (called the Caribbean sea) lyin…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, plants, including, mangosteen, tree.
Catalpa
noun · 78% connection
A genus of American and East Indian trees, of which the best know species are the Catalpa bignonioides, a large, ornamental North Amer…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, plants, including, mangosteen, tree.
Corocore
noun · 78% connection
A kind of boat of various forms, used in the Indian Archipelago.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, plants, including, mangosteen, tree.
Dragon
noun · 78% connection
A small arboreal lizard of the genus Draco, of several species, found in the East Indies and Southern Asia. Five or six of the hind ri…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, plants, including, mangosteen, tree.
Durio
noun · 78% connection
A fruit tree (D. zibethinus, the only species known) of the Indian Archipelago. It bears the durian.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, plants, including, mangosteen, tree.
Gomuti
noun · 78% connection
A black, fibrous substance resembling horsehair, obtained from the leafstalks of two kinds of palms, Metroxylon Sagu, and Arenga sacch…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, plants, including, mangosteen, tree.
Gutta-percha
noun · 78% connection
A concrete juice produced by various trees found in the Malayan archipelago, especially by the Isonandra, / Dichopsis, Gutta. It becom…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, plants, including, mangosteen, tree.
Indian
adjective · 78% connection
Made of maize or Indian corn; as, Indian corn, Indian meal, Indian bread, and the like.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, plants, including, mangosteen, tree.
