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Adansonia
noun · 78% connection
A genus of great trees related to the Bombax. There are two species, A. digitata, the baobab or monkey-bread of Africa and India, and…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: large, tree, genus, melia, azadirachta.
Algaroba
noun · 78% connection
The Honey mesquite (Prosopis juliflora), a small tree found from California to Buenos Ayres; also, its sweet, pulpy pods. A valuable g…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: large, tree, genus, melia, azadirachta.
Angostura bark
noun · 78% connection
the bitter bark of a South American tree; used in medicines and liqueurs and bitters
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: large, tree, genus, melia, azadirachta.
Authentic
noun · 78% connection
Having as immediate relation to the tonic, in distinction from plagal, which has a correspondent relation to the dominant in the octav…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: large, tree, genus, melia, azadirachta.
Azedarach
noun · 78% connection
A handsome Asiatic tree (Melia azedarach), common in the southern United States; -- called also, Pride of India, Pride of China, and B…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: large, tree, genus, melia, azadirachta.
Bark
verb · 78% connection
To cover or inclose with bark, or as with bark; as, to bark the roof of a hut.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: large, tree, genus, melia, azadirachta.
Bittersweet
adjective · 78% connection
Sweet and then bitter or bitter and then sweet; esp. sweet with a bitter after taste; hence (Fig.), pleasant but painful.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: large, tree, genus, melia, azadirachta.
Bitterwood
noun · 78% connection
handsome South American shrub or small tree having bright scarlet flowers and yielding a valuable fine-grained yellowish wood; yields…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: large, tree, genus, melia, azadirachta.
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…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: large, tree, genus, melia, azadirachta.
Caoutchouc
noun · 78% connection
A tenacious, elastic, gummy substance obtained from the milky sap of several plants of tropical South America (esp. the euphorbiaceous…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: large, tree, genus, melia, azadirachta.
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: large, tree, genus, melia, azadirachta.
Chiretta
noun · 78% connection
A plant (Agathotes Chirayta) found in Northern India, having medicinal properties to the gentian, and esteemed as a tonic and febrifug…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: large, tree, genus, melia, azadirachta.
Cinchona
noun · 78% connection
The bark of any species of Cinchona containing three per cent. or more of bitter febrifuge alkaloids; Peruvian bark; Jesuits' bark.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: large, tree, genus, melia, azadirachta.
Colocynth
noun · 78% connection
The light spongy pulp of the fruit of the bitter cucumber (Citrullus, / Cucumis, colocynthis), an Asiatic plant allied to the watermel…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: large, tree, genus, melia, azadirachta.
Entasia
noun · 78% connection
Tonic spasm; -- applied generically to denote any disease characterized by tonic spasms, as tetanus, trismus, etc.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: large, tree, genus, melia, azadirachta.
Hickory
noun · 78% connection
An American tree of the genus Carya, of which there are several species. The shagbark is the C. alba, and has a very rough bark; it af…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: large, tree, genus, melia, azadirachta.
Horehound
noun · 78% connection
A plant of the genus Marrubium (M. vulgare), which has a bitter taste, and is a weak tonic, used as a household remedy for colds, coug…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: large, tree, genus, melia, azadirachta.
Hydrastine
noun · 78% connection
An alkaloid, found in the rootstock of the golden seal (Hydrastis Canadensis), and extracted as a bitter, white, crystalline substance…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: large, tree, genus, melia, azadirachta.