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Alga
noun · 78% connection
A kind of seaweed; pl. the class of cellular cryptogamic plants which includes the black, red, and green seaweeds, as kelp, dulse, sea…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: bearing, ligulate, flowers, said, large.
Campanula
noun · 78% connection
A large genus of plants bearing bell-shaped flowers, often of great beauty; -- also called bellflower.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: bearing, ligulate, flowers, said, large.
Capitulum
noun · 78% connection
A thick head of flowers on a very short axis, as a clover top, or a dandelion; a composite flower. A capitulum may be either globular…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: bearing, ligulate, flowers, said, large.
Centaurea
noun · 78% connection
A large genus of composite plants, related to the thistles and including the cornflower or bluebottle (Centaurea Cyanus) and the star…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: bearing, ligulate, flowers, said, large.
Chaffy
adjective · 78% connection
Abounding in, or resembling, chaff.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: bearing, ligulate, flowers, said, large.
Chamomile
noun · 78% connection
A genus of herbs (Anthemis) of the Composite family. The common camomile, A. nobilis, is used as a popular remedy. Its flowers have a…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: bearing, ligulate, flowers, said, large.
Cichoraceous
adjective · 78% connection
Belonging to, or resembling, a suborder of composite plants of which the chicory (Cichorium) is the type.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: bearing, ligulate, flowers, said, large.
Cleche
adjective · 78% connection
Charged with another bearing of the same figure, and of the color of the field, so large that only a narrow border of the first bearin…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: bearing, ligulate, flowers, said, large.
Cleistogamous
adjective · 78% connection
Having, beside the usual flowers, other minute, closed flowers, without petals or with minute petals; -- said of certain species of pl…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: bearing, ligulate, flowers, said, large.
Compositae
n. pl. · 78% connection
A large family of dicotyledonous plants, having their flowers arranged in dense heads of many small florets and their anthers united i…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: bearing, ligulate, flowers, said, large.
Composite
verb · 78% connection
Made up of distinct parts or elements; compounded; as, a composite language.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: bearing, ligulate, flowers, said, large.
Daisy
noun · 78% connection
A genus of low herbs (Bellis), belonging to the family Compositae. The common English and classical daisy is B. prennis, which has a y…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: bearing, ligulate, flowers, said, large.
Elecampane
noun · 78% connection
A large, coarse herb (Inula Helenium), with composite yellow flowers. The root, which has a pungent taste, is used as a tonic, and was…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: bearing, ligulate, flowers, said, large.
Floret
noun · 78% connection
A little flower; one of the numerous little flowers which compose the head or anthodium in such flowers as the daisy, thistle, and dan…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: bearing, ligulate, flowers, said, large.
Hawkweed
noun · 78% connection
A plant of the genus Hieracium; -- so called from the ancient belief that birds of prey used its juice to strengthen their vision.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: bearing, ligulate, flowers, said, large.
Head
noun · 78% connection
The anterior or superior part of an animal, containing the brain, or chief ganglia of the nervous system, the mouth, and in the higher…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: bearing, ligulate, flowers, said, large.
Helichrysum
noun · 78% connection
A genus of composite plants, with shining, commonly white or yellow, or sometimes reddish, radiated involucres, which are often called…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: bearing, ligulate, flowers, said, large.
Hetercephalous
adjective · 78% connection
Bearing two kinds of heads or capitula; -- said of certain composite plants.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: bearing, ligulate, flowers, said, large.
