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Appellative
noun · 78% connection
A common name, in distinction from a proper name. A common name, or appellative, stands for a whole class, genus, or species of beings…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: hawaiian, name, seaweeds, over, sixty.
Basil
noun · 78% connection
The name given to several aromatic herbs of the Mint family, but chiefly to the common or sweet basil (Ocymum basilicum), and the bush…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: hawaiian, name, seaweeds, over, sixty.
Binomial
adjective · 78% connection
Having two names; -- used of the system by which every animal and plant receives two names, the one indicating the genus, the other th…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: hawaiian, name, seaweeds, over, sixty.
Clam
verb · 78% connection
A bivalve mollusk of many kinds, especially those that are edible; as, the long clam (Mya arenaria), the quahog or round clam (Venus m…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: hawaiian, name, seaweeds, over, sixty.
Dimorphism
noun · 78% connection
Difference of form between members of the same species, as when a plant has two kinds of flowers, both hermaphrodite (as in the partri…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: hawaiian, name, seaweeds, over, sixty.
Fast
verb · 78% connection
A time of fasting, whether a day, week, or longer time; a period of abstinence from food or certain kinds of food; as, an annual fast.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: hawaiian, name, seaweeds, over, sixty.
Florideae
n. pl. · 78% connection
A subclass of algae including all the red or purplish seaweeds; the Rhodospermeae of many authors; -- so called from the rosy or flori…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: hawaiian, name, seaweeds, over, sixty.
Foxtail
noun · 78% connection
The name of several kinds of grass having a soft dense head of flowers, mostly the species of Alopecurus and Setaria.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: hawaiian, name, seaweeds, over, sixty.
Fucoid
adjective · 78% connection
In a vague sense, resembling seaweeds, or of the nature of seaweeds.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: hawaiian, name, seaweeds, over, sixty.
Garfish
noun · 78% connection
One of several species of similar fishes of the genus Tylosurus, of which one species (T. marinus) is common on the Atlantic coast. T.…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: hawaiian, name, seaweeds, over, sixty.
Gossypium
noun · 78% connection
A genus of plants which yield the cotton of the arts. The species are much confused. G. herbaceum is the name given to the common cott…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: hawaiian, name, seaweeds, over, sixty.
Hornbill
noun · 78% connection
Any bird of the family Bucerotidae, of which about sixty species are known, belonging to numerous genera. They inhabit the tropical pa…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: hawaiian, name, seaweeds, over, sixty.
Income
noun · 78% connection
That which is taken into the body as food; the ingesta; -- sometimes restricted to the nutritive, or digestible, portion of the food.…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: hawaiian, name, seaweeds, over, sixty.
Kind
adjective · 78% connection
Nature; style; character; sort; fashion; manner; variety; description; class; as, there are several kinds of eloquence, of style, and…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: hawaiian, name, seaweeds, over, sixty.
Laminarian
adjective · 78% connection
Pertaining to seaweeds of the genus Laminaria, or to that zone of the sea (from two to ten fathoms in depth) where the seaweeds of thi…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: hawaiian, name, seaweeds, over, sixty.
Lap
noun · 78% connection
To lay or place over anything so as to partly or wholly cover it; as, to lap one shingle over another; to lay together one partly over…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: hawaiian, name, seaweeds, over, sixty.
List
noun · 78% connection
A roll or catalogue, that is row or line; a record of names; as, a list of names, books, articles; a list of ratable estate.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: hawaiian, name, seaweeds, over, sixty.
Maranta
noun · 78% connection
A genus of endogenous plants found in tropical America, and some species also in India. They have tuberous roots containing a large am…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: hawaiian, name, seaweeds, over, sixty.
