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Alligator
noun · 78% connection
A large carnivorous reptile of the Crocodile family, peculiar to America. It has a shorter and broader snout than the crocodile, and t…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: name, given, western, south, america.
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: name, given, western, south, america.
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: name, given, western, south, america.
Begonia
noun · 78% connection
A genus of plants, mostly of tropical America, many species of which are grown as ornamental plants. The leaves are curiously one-side…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: name, given, western, south, america.
Bison
noun · 78% connection
The American bison buffalo (Bison Americanus), a large, gregarious bovine quadruped with shaggy mane and short black horns, which form…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: name, given, western, south, america.
Bond
noun · 78% connection
A writing under seal, by which a person binds himself, his heirs, executors, and administrators, to pay a certain sum on or before a f…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: name, given, western, south, america.
Broom rape
unknown · 78% connection
A genus (Orobanche) of parasitic plants of Europe and Asia. They are destitute of chlorophyll, have scales instead of leaves, and spik…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: name, given, western, south, america.
Buchu
noun · 78% connection
A South African shrub (Barosma) with small leaves that are dotted with oil glands; also, the leaves themselves, which are used in medi…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: name, given, western, south, america.
Calceolaria
noun · 78% connection
A genus of showy herbaceous or shrubby plants, brought from South America; slipperwort. It has a yellow or purple flower, often spotte…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: name, given, western, south, america.
Crocodile
noun · 78% connection
A large reptile of the genus Crocodilus, of several species. They grow to the length of sixteen or eighteen feet, and inhabit the larg…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: name, given, western, south, america.
Crosswort
noun · 78% connection
A name given to several inconspicuous plants having leaves in whorls of four, as species of Crucianella, Valantia, etc.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: name, given, western, south, america.
Cudweed
noun · 78% connection
A small composite plant with cottony or silky stem and leaves, primarily a species of Gnaphalium, but the name is now given to many pl…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: name, given, western, south, america.
Deciduous
adjective · 78% connection
Falling off, or subject to fall or be shed, at a certain season, or a certain stage or interval of growth, as leaves (except of evergr…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: name, given, western, south, america.
El Dorado
unknown · 78% connection
A name given by the Spaniards in the 16th century to an imaginary country in the interior of South America, reputed to abound in gold…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: name, given, western, south, america.
Emigration
noun · 78% connection
The act of emigrating; removal from one country or state to another, for the purpose of residence, as from Europe to America, or, in A…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: name, given, western, south, america.
Fire beetle
unknown · 78% connection
A very brilliantly luminous beetle (Pyrophorus noctilucus), one of the elaters, found in Central and South America; -- called also cuc…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: name, given, western, south, america.
Grama grass
noun · 78% connection
pasture grass of plains of South America and western North America
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: name, given, western, south, america.
Guan
noun · 78% connection
Any one of many species of large gallinaceous birds of Central and South America, belonging to Penelope, Pipile, Ortalis, and allied g…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: name, given, western, south, america.
