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Grapevine

A vine or climbing shrub, of the genus Vitis, having small green flowers and lobed leaves, and bearing the fruit called grapes.

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Comment 76% connected

To make remarks, observations, or criticism; especially, to write notes on the works of an author, with a view to illustrate his meaning, or to expla…

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Gossip 76% connected

A sponsor; a godfather or a godmother.

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Vine 76% connected

Any woody climbing plant which bears grapes.

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Muscadine 76% connected

A name given to several very different kinds of grapes, but in America used chiefly for the scuppernong, or southern fox grape, which is said to be t…

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Grape 70% connected

A well-known edible berry growing in pendent clusters or bunches on the grapevine. The berries are smooth-skinned, have a juicy pulp, and are cultiva…

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Grape 92% connected

A well-known edible berry growing in pendent clusters or bunches on the grapevine. The berries are smooth-skinned, have a juicy pulp, and are cultiva…

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Angiosperm noun · 86% connection

plants having seeds in a closed ovary

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Annual noun · 86% connection

(botany) a plant that completes its entire life cycle within the space of a year

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Apophysis noun · 86% connection

(botany) a natural swelling or enlargement: at the base of the stalk or seta in certain mosses or on the cone scale of certain conifers

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Bast noun · 86% connection

(botany) tissue that conducts synthesized food substances (e.g., from leaves) to parts where needed; consists primarily of sieve tubes

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Biennial noun · 86% connection

(botany) a plant having a life cycle that normally takes two seasons from germination to death to complete; flowering biennials usuall…

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Blister noun · 86% connection

(botany) a swelling on a plant similar to that on the skin

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Callus noun · 86% connection

(botany) an isolated thickening of tissue, especially a stiff protuberance on the lip of an orchid

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Calyx noun · 86% connection

(botany) the whorl of sepals of a flower collectively forming the outer floral envelope or layer of the perianth enclosing and support…

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Coma noun · 86% connection

(botany) a usually terminal tuft of bracts (as in the pineapple) or tuft of hairs (especially on certain seeds)

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Corolla noun · 86% connection

(botany) the whorl of petals of a flower that collectively form an inner floral envelope or layer of the perianth; "we cultivate the f…

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Corona noun · 86% connection

(botany) the trumpet-shaped or cup-shaped outgrowth of the corolla of a daffodil or narcissus flower

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Embryo noun · 86% connection

(botany) a minute rudimentary plant contained within a seed or an archegonium

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Fern noun · 86% connection

any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward; reproduce by s…

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Flowering plant noun · 86% connection

plants having seeds in a closed ovary

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Germ tube noun · 86% connection

(botany) a slender tubular outgrowth from a spore in germination

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Leaf node noun · 86% connection

(botany) the small swelling that is the part of a plant stem from which one or more leaves emerge

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Ligule noun · 86% connection

(botany) any appendage to a plant that is shaped like a strap

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Lip noun · 86% connection

(botany) either of the two parts of a bilabiate corolla or calyx

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Aconite noun · 78% connection

any of various usually poisonous plants of the genus Aconitum having tuberous roots and palmately lobed leaves and blue or white flowe…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: vine, climbing, shrub, genus, vitis.
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Anabas noun · 78% connection

A genus of fishes, remarkable for their power of living long out of water, and of making their way on land for considerable distances,…

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Arere noun · 78% connection

large west African tree having large palmately lobed leaves and axillary cymose panicles of small white flowers and one-winged seeds;…

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Bignonia noun · 78% connection

A large genus of American, mostly tropical, climbing shrubs, having compound leaves and showy somewhat tubular flowers. B. capreolata…

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Briar noun · 78% connection

a very prickly woody vine of the eastern United States growing in tangled masses having tough round stems with shiny leathery leaves a…

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Brier noun · 78% connection

a very prickly woody vine of the eastern United States growing in tangled masses having tough round stems with shiny leathery leaves a…

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Briony noun · 78% connection

a vine of the genus Bryonia having large leaves and small flowers and yielding acrid juice with emetic and purgative properties

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Broom noun · 78% connection

A plant having twigs suitable for making brooms to sweep with when bound together; esp., the Cytisus scoparius of Western Europe, whic…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: vine, climbing, shrub, genus, vitis.
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Bryony noun · 78% connection

a vine of the genus Bryonia having large leaves and small flowers and yielding acrid juice with emetic and purgative properties

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Buchu noun · 78% connection

A South African shrub (Barosma) with small leaves that are dotted with oil glands; also, the leaves themselves, which are used in medi…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: vine, climbing, shrub, genus, vitis.
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Bullbrier noun · 78% connection

a very prickly woody vine of the eastern United States growing in tangled masses having tough round stems with shiny leathery leaves a…

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Bush noun · 78% connection

A shrub; esp., a shrub with branches rising from or near the root; a thick shrub or a cluster of shrubs.

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