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Lateral

Of or pertaining to the sides; as, the lateral walls of a house; the lateral branches of a tree.

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Distal 84% connected

Remote from the point of attachment or origin; as, the distal end of a bone or muscle

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Distal 84% connected

Remote from the point of attachment or origin; as, the distal end of a bone or muscle

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Side 84% connected

The margin, edge, verge, or border of a surface; especially (when the thing spoken of is somewhat oblong in shape), one of the longer edges as distin…

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Side 84% connected

The margin, edge, verge, or border of a surface; especially (when the thing spoken of is somewhat oblong in shape), one of the longer edges as distin…

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Pass 76% connected

To go; to move; to proceed; to be moved or transferred from one point to another; to make a transit; -- usually with a following adverb or adverbal p…

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Passing 76% connected

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Sidelong 92% connected

Laterally; obliquely; in the direction of the side.

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Arborescent adjective · 78% connection

Resembling a tree; becoming woody in stalk; dendritic; having crystallizations disposed like the branches and twigs of a tree.

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At preposition · 78% connection

Primarily, this word expresses the relations of presence, nearness in place or time, or direction toward; as, at the ninth hour; at th…

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Banyan noun · 78% connection

A tree of the same genus as the common fig, and called the Indian fig (Ficus Indica), whose branches send shoots to the ground, which…

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Bilateral adjective · 78% connection

Having two sides; arranged upon two sides; affecting two sides or two parties.

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Blockhouse noun · 78% connection

An edifice or structure of heavy timbers or logs for military defense, having its sides loopholed for musketry, and often an upper sto…

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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…

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Branch verb · 78% connection

To shoot or spread in branches; to separate into branches; to ramify.

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Branching adjective · 78% connection

Furnished with branches; shooting our branches; extending in a branch or branches.

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Branchy adjective · 78% connection

Full of branches; having wide-spreading branches; consisting of branches.

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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…

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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…

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Caning noun · 78% connection

work made of interlaced slender branches (especially willow branches)

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Cocoa palm unknown · 78% connection

A palm tree producing the cocoanut (Cocos nucifera). It grows in nearly all tropical countries, attaining a height of sixty or eighty…

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Converse noun · 78% connection

A proposition in which, after a conclusion from something supposed has been drawn, the order is inverted, making the conclusion the su…

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Crownwork noun · 78% connection

a type of fortification, like a hornwork, but consisting of a full bastion with the walls on either side ending in half-bastions from…

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Foliage noun · 78% connection

A cluster of leaves, flowers, and branches; especially, the representation of leaves, flowers, and branches, in architecture, intended…

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House verb · 78% connection

To take or put into a house; to shelter under a roof; to cover from the inclemencies of the weather; to protect by covering; as, to ho…

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Immure verb · 78% connection

To inclose whithin walls, or as within walls; hence, to shut up; to imprison; to incarcerate.

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