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Honeysuckle

One of several species of flowering plants, much admired for their beauty, and some for their fragrance.

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Bush 76% connected

A thicket, or place abounding in trees or shrubs; a wild forest.

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Columbine 76% connected

Of or pertaining to a dove; dovelike; dove-colored.

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Shrub 76% connected

A liquor composed of vegetable acid, especially lemon juice, and sugar, with spirit to preserve it.

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Woodbine 76% connected

A climbing plant having flowers of great fragrance (Lonicera Periclymenum); the honeysuckle.

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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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Acuity noun · 78% connection

a quick and penetrating intelligence; "he argued with great acuteness"; "I admired the keenness of his mind"

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Acuteness noun · 78% connection

a quick and penetrating intelligence; "he argued with great acuteness"; "I admired the keenness of his mind"

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Admired adjective · 78% connection

Regarded with wonder and delight; highly prized; as, an admired poem.

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Amaryllis noun · 78% connection

A family of plants much esteemed for their beauty, including the narcissus, jonquil, daffodil, agave, and others.

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Andromeda noun · 78% connection

A genus of ericaceous flowering plants of northern climates, of which the original species was found growing on a rock surrounded by w…

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Archegonium noun · 78% connection

The pistillidium or female organ in the higher cryptogamic plants, corresponding to the pistil in flowering plants.

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Aroma noun · 78% connection

The quality or principle of plants or other substances which constitutes their fragrance; agreeable odor; as, the aroma of coffee.

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Asphodel noun · 78% connection

A general name for a plant of the genus Asphodelus. The asphodels are hardy perennial plants, several species of which are cultivated…

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Bulbel noun · 78% connection

A separable bulb formed on some flowering plants.

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Cervix noun · 78% connection

the part of an organism (human or animal) that connects the head to the rest of the body; "he admired her long graceful neck"; "the ho…

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Cineraria noun · 78% connection

A Linnaean genus of free-flowering composite plants, mostly from South Africa. Several species are cultivated for ornament.

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Clematis noun · 78% connection

A genus of flowering plants, of many species, mostly climbers, having feathery styles, which greatly enlarge in the fruit; -- called a…

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