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Aconitum
noun · 78% connection
The poisonous herb aconite; also, an extract from it.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: root, brazilian, rubiaceous, herb, cephaelis.
Belladonna
noun · 78% connection
An herbaceous European plant (Atropa belladonna) with reddish bell-shaped flowers and shining black berries. The whole plant and its f…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: root, brazilian, rubiaceous, herb, cephaelis.
Bloodroot
noun · 78% connection
A plant (Sanguinaria Canadensis), with a red root and red sap, and bearing a pretty, white flower in early spring; -- called also pucc…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: root, brazilian, rubiaceous, herb, cephaelis.
Bryonin
noun · 78% connection
A bitter principle obtained from the root of the bryony (Bryonia alba and B. dioica). It is a white, or slightly colored, substance, a…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: root, brazilian, rubiaceous, herb, cephaelis.
Carnauba
noun · 78% connection
The Brazilian wax palm. See Wax palm.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: root, brazilian, rubiaceous, herb, cephaelis.
Corbel
noun · 78% connection
A bracket supporting a superincumbent object, or receiving the spring of an arch. Corbels were employed largely in Gothic architecture.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: root, brazilian, rubiaceous, herb, cephaelis.
Crystal
noun · 78% connection
The regular form which a substance tends to assume in solidifying, through the inherent power of cohesive attraction. It is bounded by…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: root, brazilian, rubiaceous, herb, cephaelis.
Digitain
noun · 78% connection
Any one of several extracts of foxglove (Digitalis), as the "French extract," the "German extract," etc., which differ among themselve…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: root, brazilian, rubiaceous, herb, cephaelis.
Dodder
noun · 78% connection
A plant of the genus Cuscuta. It is a leafless parasitical vine with yellowish threadlike stems. It attaches itself to some other plan…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: root, brazilian, rubiaceous, herb, cephaelis.
Elcaja
noun · 78% connection
An Arabian tree (Trichilia emetica). The fruit, which is emetic, is sometimes employed in the composition of an ointment for the cure…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: root, brazilian, rubiaceous, herb, cephaelis.
Emetine
noun · 78% connection
A white crystalline bitter alkaloid extracted from ipecacuanha root, and regarded as its peculiar emetic principle.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: root, brazilian, rubiaceous, herb, cephaelis.
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: root, brazilian, rubiaceous, herb, cephaelis.
Extract
verb · 78% connection
To draw out or forth; to pull out; to remove forcibly from a fixed position, as by traction or suction, etc.; as, to extract a tooth f…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: root, brazilian, rubiaceous, herb, cephaelis.
Feverfew
noun · 78% connection
A perennial plant (Pyrethrum, / Chrysanthemum, Parthenium) allied to camomile, having finely divided leaves and white blossoms; -- so…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: root, brazilian, rubiaceous, herb, cephaelis.
Garlic
noun · 78% connection
A plant of the genus Allium (A. sativum is the cultivated variety), having a bulbous root, a very strong smell, and an acrid, pungent…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: root, brazilian, rubiaceous, herb, cephaelis.
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: root, brazilian, rubiaceous, herb, cephaelis.
Herb
noun · 78% connection
A plant whose stem does not become woody and permanent, but dies, at least down to the ground, after flowering.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: root, brazilian, rubiaceous, herb, cephaelis.
Jonquille
noun · 78% connection
A bulbous plant of the genus Narcissus (N. Jonquilla), allied to the daffodil. It has long, rushlike leaves, and yellow or white fragr…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: root, brazilian, rubiaceous, herb, cephaelis.