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Aloe
noun · 78% connection
A genus of succulent plants, some classed as trees, others as shrubs, but the greater number having the habit and appearance of evergr…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, papilionaceous, herbaceous, plants, species.
Analogue
noun · 78% connection
A species or genus in one country closely related to a species of the same genus, or a genus of the same group, in another: such speci…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, papilionaceous, herbaceous, plants, species.
Asarabacca
noun · 78% connection
An acrid herbaceous plant (Asarum Europaeum), the leaves and roots of which are emetic and cathartic. It is principally used in cephal…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, papilionaceous, herbaceous, plants, species.
Astragalus
noun · 78% connection
A genus of papilionaceous plants, of the tribe Galegeae, containing numerous species, two of which are called, in English, milk vetch…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, papilionaceous, herbaceous, plants, species.
Bird's-foot
noun · 78% connection
A papilionaceous plant, the Ornithopus, having a curved, cylindrical pod tipped with a short, clawlike point.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, papilionaceous, herbaceous, plants, species.
Borage
noun · 78% connection
A mucilaginous plant of the genus Borago (B. officinalis), which is used, esp. in France, as a demulcent and diaphoretic.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, papilionaceous, herbaceous, plants, species.
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, papilionaceous, herbaceous, plants, species.
Burstwort
noun · 78% connection
A plant (Herniaria glabra) supposed to be valuable for the cure of hernia or rupture.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, papilionaceous, herbaceous, plants, species.
Butt
noun · 78% connection
the part of a plant from which the roots spring or the part of a stalk or trunk nearest the roots
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, papilionaceous, herbaceous, plants, species.
Calendula
noun · 78% connection
A genus of composite herbaceous plants. One species, Calendula officinalis, is the common marigold, and was supposed to blossom on the…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, papilionaceous, herbaceous, plants, species.
Caltrap
noun · 78% connection
A genus of herbaceous plants (Tribulus) of the order Zygophylleae, having a hard several-celled fruit, armed with stout spines, and re…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, papilionaceous, herbaceous, plants, species.
Coreopsis
noun · 78% connection
A genus of herbaceous composite plants, having the achenes two-horned and remotely resembling some insect; tickseed. C. tinctoria, of…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, papilionaceous, herbaceous, plants, species.
Dulcamara
noun · 78% connection
A plant (Solanum Dulcamara). See Bittersweet, n., 3 (a).
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, papilionaceous, herbaceous, plants, species.
Dulcamarin
noun · 78% connection
A glucoside extracted from the bittersweet (Solanum Dulcamara), as a yellow amorphous substance. It probably occasions the compound ta…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, papilionaceous, herbaceous, plants, species.
Ecballium
noun · 78% connection
A genus of cucurbitaceous plants consisting of the single species Ecballium agreste (or Elaterium), the squirting cucumber. Its fruit,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, papilionaceous, herbaceous, plants, species.
Euphorbia
noun · 78% connection
Spurge, or bastard spurge, a genus of plants of many species, mostly shrubby, herbaceous succulents, affording an acrid, milky juice.…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, papilionaceous, herbaceous, plants, species.
Felonwort
noun · 78% connection
The bittersweet nightshade (Solanum Dulcamara). See Bittersweet.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, papilionaceous, herbaceous, plants, species.
Ginseng
noun · 78% connection
A plant of the genus Aralia, the root of which is highly valued as a medicine among the Chinese. The Chinese plant (Aralia Schinseng)…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, papilionaceous, herbaceous, plants, species.
