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Medic

A leguminous plant of the genus Medicago. The black medic is the Medicago lupulina; the purple medic, or lucern, is M. sativa.

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Alfalfa 76% connected

The lucern (Medicago sativa); -- so called in California, Texas, etc.

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Lucerne 76% connected

See Lucern, the plant.

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Herb 76% connected

A plant whose stem does not become woody and permanent, but dies, at least down to the ground, after flowering.

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Military 70% connected

Of or pertaining to soldiers, to arms, or to war; belonging to, engaged in, or appropriate to, the affairs of war; as, a military parade; military di…

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Trefoil 92% connected

Any plant of the genus Trifolium, which includes the white clover, red clover, etc.; -- less properly, applied also to the nonesuch, or black medic.…

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Angiosperm noun · 86% connection

plants having seeds in a closed ovary

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Annual noun · 86% connection

(botany) a plant that completes its entire life cycle within the space of a year

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Apophysis noun · 86% connection

(botany) a natural swelling or enlargement: at the base of the stalk or seta in certain mosses or on the cone scale of certain conifers

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Bast noun · 86% connection

(botany) tissue that conducts synthesized food substances (e.g., from leaves) to parts where needed; consists primarily of sieve tubes

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Biennial noun · 86% connection

(botany) a plant having a life cycle that normally takes two seasons from germination to death to complete; flowering biennials usuall…

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Blister noun · 86% connection

(botany) a swelling on a plant similar to that on the skin

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Callus noun · 86% connection

(botany) an isolated thickening of tissue, especially a stiff protuberance on the lip of an orchid

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Calyx noun · 86% connection

(botany) the whorl of sepals of a flower collectively forming the outer floral envelope or layer of the perianth enclosing and support…

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Coma noun · 86% connection

(botany) a usually terminal tuft of bracts (as in the pineapple) or tuft of hairs (especially on certain seeds)

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Corolla noun · 86% connection

(botany) the whorl of petals of a flower that collectively form an inner floral envelope or layer of the perianth; "we cultivate the f…

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Corona noun · 86% connection

(botany) the trumpet-shaped or cup-shaped outgrowth of the corolla of a daffodil or narcissus flower

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Embryo noun · 86% connection

(botany) a minute rudimentary plant contained within a seed or an archegonium

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Fern noun · 86% connection

any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward; reproduce by s…

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Flowering plant noun · 86% connection

plants having seeds in a closed ovary

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Germ tube noun · 86% connection

(botany) a slender tubular outgrowth from a spore in germination

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Leaf node noun · 86% connection

(botany) the small swelling that is the part of a plant stem from which one or more leaves emerge

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Ligule noun · 86% connection

(botany) any appendage to a plant that is shaped like a strap

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Lip noun · 86% connection

(botany) either of the two parts of a bilabiate corolla or calyx

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Amorpha noun · 78% connection

A genus of leguminous shrubs, having long clusters of purple flowers; false or bastard indigo.

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Avena noun · 78% connection

A genus of grasses, including the common oat (Avena sativa); the oat grasses.

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Bindweed noun · 78% connection

A plant of the genus Convolvulus; as, greater bindweed (C. Sepium); lesser bindweed (C. arvensis); the white, the blue, the Syrian, bi…

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Cassius noun · 78% connection

A brownish purple pigment, obtained by the action of some compounds of tin upon certain salts of gold. It is used in painting and stai…

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Charras noun · 78% connection

The gum resin of the hemp plant (Cannabis sativa). Same as Churrus.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: leguminous, plant, genus, medicago, black.
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Cowhage noun · 78% connection

A leguminous climbing plant of the genus Mucuna, having crooked pods covered with sharp hairs, which stick to the fingers, causing int…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: leguminous, plant, genus, medicago, black.
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Cowpea noun · 78% connection

The seed of one or more leguminous plants of the genus Dolichos; also, the plant itself. Many varieties are cultivated in the southern…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: leguminous, plant, genus, medicago, black.
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Empurple verb · 78% connection

To tinge or dye of a purple color; to color with purple; to impurple.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: leguminous, plant, genus, medicago, black.
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Esparcet noun · 78% connection

The common sainfoin (Onobrychis sativa), an Old World leguminous forage plant.

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Fitch noun · 78% connection

A word found in the Authorized Version of the Bible, representing different Hebrew originals. In Isaiah xxviii. 25, 27, it means the b…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: leguminous, plant, genus, medicago, black.
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Gooseberry noun · 78% connection

spiny Eurasian shrub having greenish purple-tinged flowers and ovoid yellow-green or red-purple berries

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