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Acanthus
noun · 78% connection
A genus of herbaceous prickly plants, found in the south of Europe, Asia Minor, and India; bear's-breech.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, perennial, herbaceous, endogenous, plants.
Aloe
noun · 78% connection
A genus of succulent plants, some classed as trees, others as shrubs, but the greater number having the habit and appearance of evergr…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, perennial, herbaceous, endogenous, plants.
Anthemis
noun · 78% connection
Chamomile; a genus of composite, herbaceous plants.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, perennial, herbaceous, endogenous, plants.
Banana
noun · 78% connection
A perennial herbaceous plant of almost treelike size (Musa sapientum); also, its edible fruit. See Musa.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, perennial, herbaceous, endogenous, plants.
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: genus, perennial, herbaceous, endogenous, plants.
Calendula
noun · 78% connection
A genus of composite herbaceous plants. One species, Calendula officinalis, is the common marigold, and was supposed to blossom on the…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, perennial, herbaceous, endogenous, plants.
Caltrap
noun · 78% connection
A genus of herbaceous plants (Tribulus) of the order Zygophylleae, having a hard several-celled fruit, armed with stout spines, and re…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, perennial, herbaceous, endogenous, plants.
Carex
noun · 78% connection
A numerous and widely distributed genus of perennial herbaceous plants of the order Cypreaceae; the sedges.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, perennial, herbaceous, endogenous, plants.
Caudex
noun · 78% connection
The stem of a tree., esp. a stem without a branch, as of a palm or a tree fern; also, the perennial rootstock of an herbaceous plant.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, perennial, herbaceous, endogenous, plants.
Celandine
noun · 78% connection
A perennial herbaceous plant (Chelidonium majus) of the poppy family, with yellow flowers. It is used as a medicine in jaundice, etc.,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, perennial, herbaceous, endogenous, plants.
Chrysanthemum
noun · 78% connection
A genus of composite plants, mostly perennial, and of many species including the many varieties of garden chrysanthemums (annual and p…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, perennial, herbaceous, endogenous, plants.
Coreopsis
noun · 78% connection
A genus of herbaceous composite plants, having the achenes two-horned and remotely resembling some insect; tickseed. C. tinctoria, of…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, perennial, herbaceous, endogenous, plants.
Dicentra
noun · 78% connection
A genus of herbaceous plants, with racemes of two-spurred or heart-shaped flowers, including the Dutchman's breeches, and the more sho…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, perennial, herbaceous, endogenous, plants.
Dogbane
noun · 78% connection
A small genus of perennial herbaceous plants, with poisonous milky juice, bearing slender pods pods in pairs.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, perennial, herbaceous, endogenous, plants.
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…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, perennial, herbaceous, endogenous, plants.
Equisetum
noun · 78% connection
A genus of vascular, cryptogamic, herbaceous plants; -- also called horsetails.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, perennial, herbaceous, endogenous, plants.
Euphorbia
noun · 78% connection
Spurge, or bastard spurge, a genus of plants of many species, mostly shrubby, herbaceous succulents, affording an acrid, milky juice.…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, perennial, herbaceous, endogenous, plants.
Herbaceous
adjective · 78% connection
Of or pertaining to herbs; having the nature, texture, or characteristics, of an herb; as, herbaceous plants; an herbaceous stem.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, perennial, herbaceous, endogenous, plants.
