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Alabaster
noun · 78% connection
A compact variety or sulphate of lime, or gypsum, of fine texture, and usually white and translucent, but sometimes yellow, red, or gr…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: tree, genus, carpinus, compact, horny.
Bo tree
unknown · 78% connection
The peepul tree; esp., the very ancient tree standing at Anurajahpoora in Ceylon, grown from a slip of the tree under which Gautama is…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: tree, genus, carpinus, compact, horny.
Bombax
noun · 78% connection
A genus of trees, called also the silkcotton tree; also, a tree of the genus Bombax.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: tree, genus, carpinus, compact, horny.
Breadfruit
noun · 78% connection
The tree itself, which is one of considerable size, with large, lobed leaves. Cloth is made from the bark, and the timber is used for…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: tree, genus, carpinus, compact, horny.
Buttonwood
noun · 78% connection
The Platanus occidentalis, or American plane tree, a large tree, producing rough balls, from which it is named; -- called also buttonb…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: tree, genus, carpinus, compact, horny.
Calamary
noun · 78% connection
A cephalopod, belonging to the genus Loligo and related genera. There are many species. They have a sack of inklike fluid which they d…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: tree, genus, carpinus, compact, horny.
Carbonado
noun · 78% connection
A black variety of diamond, found in Brazil, and used for diamond drills. It occurs in irregular or rounded fragments, rarely distinct…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: tree, genus, carpinus, compact, horny.
Cassowary
noun · 78% connection
A large bird, of the genus Casuarius, found in the east Indies. It is smaller and stouter than the ostrich. Its head is armed with a k…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: tree, genus, carpinus, compact, horny.
Cerastes
noun · 78% connection
A genus of poisonous African serpents, with a horny scale over each eye; the horned viper.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: tree, genus, carpinus, compact, horny.
Compaction
noun · 78% connection
The act of making compact, or the state of being compact.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: tree, genus, carpinus, compact, horny.
Corneouss
adjective · 78% connection
Of a texture resembling horn; horny; hard.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: tree, genus, carpinus, compact, horny.
Dicynodont
noun · 78% connection
One of a group of extinct reptiles having the jaws armed with a horny beak, as in turtles, and in the genus Dicynodon, supporting also…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: tree, genus, carpinus, compact, horny.
Fracture
noun · 78% connection
The texture of a freshly broken surface; as, a compact fracture; an even, hackly, or conchoidal fracture.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: tree, genus, carpinus, compact, horny.
Gamboge
noun · 78% connection
A concrete juice, or gum resin, produced by several species of trees in Siam, Ceylon, and Malabar. It is brought in masses, or cylindr…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: tree, genus, carpinus, compact, horny.
Gorgonia
noun · 78% connection
A genus of Gorgoniacea, formerly very extensive, but now restricted to such species as the West Indian sea fan (Gorgonia flabellum), s…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: tree, genus, carpinus, compact, horny.
Graft
noun · 78% connection
A small shoot or scion of a tree inserted in another tree, the stock of which is to support and nourish it. The two unite and become o…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: tree, genus, carpinus, compact, horny.
Grain
noun · 78% connection
the physical composition of something (especially with respect to the size and shape of the small constituents of a substance); "bread…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: tree, genus, carpinus, compact, horny.
Hazel
noun · 78% connection
the fine-grained wood of a hazelnut tree (genus Corylus) and the hazel tree (Australian genus Pomaderris)
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: tree, genus, carpinus, compact, horny.
