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Gemmule

A little leaf bud, as the plumule between the cotyledons.

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Hypothesis 76% connected

A supposition; a proposition or principle which is supposed or taken for granted, in order to draw a conclusion or inference for proof of the point i…

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The quality or state of being possible; the power of happening, being, or existing.

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A doctrine, or scheme of things, which terminates in speculation or contemplation, without a view to practice; hypothesis; speculation.

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Assumption noun · 84% connection

a hypothesis that is taken for granted; "any society is built upon certain assumptions"

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Conjecture noun · 84% connection

a hypothesis that has been formed by speculating or conjecturing (usually with little hard evidence); "speculations about the outcome…

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a hypothetical description of a complex entity or process; "the computer program was based on a model of the circulatory and respirato…

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Hypothetical noun · 84% connection

a hypothetical possibility, circumstance, statement, proposal, situation, etc.; "consider the following, just as a hypothetical possib…

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a hypothesis that is taken for granted; "any society is built upon certain assumptions"

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a group of people having approximately the same age

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a group of people having approximately the same age

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a group of people having approximately the same age

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an expert at calculation (or at operating calculating machines)

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relying on observation or experiment; "experimental results that supported the hypothesis"

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Accumbent adjective · 78% connection

Lying against anything, as one part of a leaf against another leaf.

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Acotyledon noun · 78% connection

A plant which has no cotyledons, as the dodder and all flowerless plants.

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Acrospire noun · 78% connection

The sprout at the end of a seed when it begins to germinate; the plumule in germination; -- so called from its spiral form.

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Blade noun · 78% connection

Properly, the leaf, or flat part of the leaf, of any plant, especially of gramineous plants. The term is sometimes applied to the spir…

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Conferruminated adjective · 78% connection

Closely united by the coalescence, or sticking together, of contiguous faces, as in the case of the cotyledons of the live-oak acorn.

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Cotyledon noun · 78% connection

A leaf borne by the caulicle or radicle of an embryo; a seed leaf.

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Cotyledonous adjective · 78% connection

Of or pertaining to a cotyledon or cotyledons; having a seed lobe.

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Dicot noun · 78% connection

flowering plant with two cotyledons; the stem grows by deposit on its outside

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Dicot family noun · 78% connection

family of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination

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Dicot genus noun · 78% connection

genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination

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Dicotyledon noun · 78% connection

A plant whose seeds divide into two seed lobes, or cotyledons, in germinating.

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Dicotyledonous adjective · 78% connection

Having two cotyledons or seed lobes; as, a dicotyledonous plant.

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Exogen noun · 78% connection

A plant belonging to one of the greater part of the vegetable kingdom, and which the plants are characterized by having c wood bark, a…

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Exoptile noun · 78% connection

A name given by Lestiboudois to dicotyledons; -- so called because the plumule is naked.

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Exorhiza noun · 78% connection

A plant Whose radicle is not inclosed or sheathed by the cotyledons or plumule.

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Exorhizous adjective · 78% connection

Having a radicle which is not inclosed by the cotyledons or plumule; of or relating to an exorhiza.

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Folium noun · 78% connection

A leaf, esp. a thin leaf or plate.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: little, leaf, plumule, cotyledons.
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Frond noun · 78% connection

The organ formed by the combination or union into one body of stem and leaf, and often bearing the fructification; as, the frond of a…

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