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Adelaster
noun · 78% connection
A provisional name for a plant which has not had its flowers botanically examined, and therefore has not been referred to its proper g…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: name, certain, curious, orchids, bear.
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, certain, curious, orchids, bear.
Be
verb · 78% connection
To exist in a certain manner or relation, -- whether as a reality or as a product of thought; to exist as the subject of a certain pre…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: name, certain, curious, orchids, bear.
Bead proof
unknown · 78% connection
Among distillers, a certain degree of strength in alcoholic liquor, as formerly ascertained by the floating or sinking of glass globul…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: name, certain, curious, orchids, bear.
Bear
noun · 78% connection
An animal which has some resemblance to a bear in form or habits, but no real affinity; as, the woolly bear; ant bear; water bear; sea…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: name, certain, curious, orchids, bear.
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, certain, curious, orchids, bear.
Camellia
noun · 78% connection
An Asiatic genus of small shrubs, often with shining leaves and showy flowers. Camellia Japonica is much cultivated for ornament, and…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: name, certain, curious, orchids, bear.
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: name, certain, curious, orchids, bear.
Column
noun · 78% connection
The body formed by the union of the stamens in the Mallow family, or of the stamens and pistil in the orchids.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: name, certain, curious, orchids, bear.
Endogen
noun · 78% connection
A plant which increases in size by internal growth and elongation at the summit, having the wood in the form of bundles or threads, ir…
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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: name, certain, curious, orchids, bear.
Greenhood
noun · 78% connection
any of numerous orchids of the genus Pterostylis having leaves in a basal rosette and green flowers often striped purple or brown or r…
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Interosculant
adjective · 78% connection
Uniting two groups; -- said of certain genera which connect family groups, or of species that connect genera. See Osculant.
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Kamichi
noun · 78% connection
A curious South American bird (Anhima, / Palamedea, cornuta), often domesticated by the natives and kept with poultry, which it defend…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: name, certain, curious, orchids, bear.
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: name, certain, curious, orchids, bear.
Laurus
noun · 78% connection
A genus of trees including, according to modern authors, only the true laurel (Laurus nobilis), and the larger L. Canariensis of Madei…
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Measure
verb · 78% connection
To be of a certain size or quantity, or to have a certain length, breadth, or thickness, or a certain capacity according to a standard…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: name, certain, curious, orchids, bear.
Mentum
noun · 78% connection
a projection like a chin formed by the sepals and base of the column in some orchids
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: name, certain, curious, orchids, bear.
