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Adansonia
noun · 78% connection
A genus of great trees related to the Bombax. There are two species, A. digitata, the baobab or monkey-bread of Africa and India, and…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: tree, genus, carpinus, americana, smooth.
Agave
noun · 78% connection
A genus of plants (order Amaryllidaceae) of which the chief species is the maguey or century plant (A. Americana), wrongly called Aloe…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: tree, genus, carpinus, americana, smooth.
Alburnum
noun · 78% connection
The white and softer part of wood, between the inner bark and the hard wood or duramen; sapwood.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: tree, genus, carpinus, americana, smooth.
Bark
verb · 78% connection
To strip the bark from; to peel.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: tree, genus, carpinus, americana, smooth.
Basswood
noun · 78% connection
The bass (Tilia) or its wood; especially, T. Americana. See Bass, the lime tree.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: tree, genus, carpinus, americana, smooth.
Bitterwood
noun · 78% connection
A West Indian tree (Picraena excelsa) from the wood of which the bitter drug Jamaica quassia is obtained.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: tree, genus, carpinus, americana, smooth.
Box
noun · 78% connection
A tree or shrub, flourishing in different parts of the world. The common box (Buxus sempervirens) has two varieties, one of which, the…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: tree, genus, carpinus, americana, smooth.
Breadfruit
noun · 78% connection
The fruit of a tree (Artocarpus incisa) found in the islands of the Pacific, esp. the South Sea islands. It is of a roundish form, fro…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: tree, genus, carpinus, americana, smooth.
Carambola
noun · 78% connection
An East Indian tree (Averrhoa Carambola), and its acid, juicy fruit; called also Coromandel gooseberry.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: tree, genus, carpinus, americana, smooth.
Cinchona
noun · 78% connection
A genus of trees growing naturally on the Andes in Peru and adjacent countries, but now cultivated in the East Indies, producing a med…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: tree, genus, carpinus, americana, smooth.
Creeper
noun · 78% connection
One who, or that which, creeps; any creeping thing.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: tree, genus, carpinus, americana, smooth.
Elm
noun · 78% connection
A tree of the genus Ulmus, of several species, much used as a shade tree, particularly in America. The English elm is Ulmus campestris…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: tree, genus, carpinus, americana, smooth.
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…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: tree, genus, carpinus, americana, smooth.
Grass tree
unknown · 78% connection
An Australian plant of the genus Xanthorrhoea, having a thick trunk crowned with a dense tuft of pendulous, grasslike leaves, from the…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: tree, genus, carpinus, americana, smooth.
Gray
superl. · 78% connection
White mixed with black, as the color of pepper and salt, or of ashes, or of hair whitened by age; sometimes, a dark mixed color; as, t…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: tree, genus, carpinus, americana, smooth.
Hard
superl. · 78% connection
Not easily penetrated, cut, or separated into parts; not yielding to pressure; firm; solid; compact; -- applied to material bodies, an…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: tree, genus, carpinus, americana, smooth.
Hardbeam
noun · 78% connection
A tree of the genus Carpinus, of compact, horny texture; hornbeam.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: tree, genus, carpinus, americana, smooth.
Hazel
noun · 78% connection
A shrub or small tree of the genus Corylus, as the C. avellana, bearing a nut containing a kernel of a mild, farinaceous taste; the fi…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: tree, genus, carpinus, americana, smooth.
