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Alyssum
noun · 78% connection
A genus of cruciferous plants; madwort. The sweet alyssum (A. maritimum), cultivated for bouquets, bears small, white, sweet-scented f…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: cress, pungent, cruciferous, plant, including.
Analogue
noun · 78% connection
A species or genus in one country closely related to a species of the same genus, or a genus of the same group, in another: such speci…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: cress, pungent, cruciferous, plant, including.
Cardamine
noun · 78% connection
A genus of cruciferous plants, containing the lady's-smock, cuckooflower, bitter cress, meadow cress, etc.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: cress, pungent, cruciferous, plant, including.
Charlock
noun · 78% connection
A cruciferous plant (Brassica sinapistrum) with yellow flowers; wild mustard. It is troublesome in grain fields. Called also chardock,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: cress, pungent, cruciferous, plant, including.
Coralwort
noun · 78% connection
A cruciferous herb of certain species of Dentaria; -- called also toothwort, tooth violet, or pepper root.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: cress, pungent, cruciferous, plant, including.
Cress
noun · 78% connection
A plant of various species, chiefly cruciferous. The leaves have a moderately pungent taste, and are used as a salad and antiscorbutic.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: cress, pungent, cruciferous, plant, including.
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: cress, pungent, cruciferous, plant, including.
Cucumber
noun · 78% connection
A creeping plant, and its fruit, of several species of the genus Cucumis, esp. Cucumis sativus, the unripe fruit of which is eaten eit…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: cress, pungent, cruciferous, plant, including.
Currant
noun · 78% connection
A shrub or bush of several species of the genus Ribes (a genus also including the gooseberry); esp., the Ribes rubrum.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: cress, pungent, cruciferous, plant, including.
Erucic
adjective · 78% connection
Pertaining to, or derived from, a genus of cruciferous Mediterranean herbs (Eruca or Brassica); as, erucic acid, a fatty acid resembli…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: cress, pungent, cruciferous, plant, including.
Garfish
noun · 78% connection
One of several species of similar fishes of the genus Tylosurus, of which one species (T. marinus) is common on the Atlantic coast. T.…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: cress, pungent, cruciferous, plant, including.
Garlic
noun · 78% connection
A plant of the genus Allium (A. sativum is the cultivated variety), having a bulbous root, a very strong smell, and an acrid, pungent…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: cress, pungent, cruciferous, plant, including.
Genus
noun · 78% connection
An assemblage of species, having so many fundamental points of structure in common, that in the judgment of competent scientists, they…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: cress, pungent, cruciferous, plant, including.
Gillyflower
noun · 78% connection
A name given by old writers to the clove pink (Dianthus Caryophyllus) but now to the common stock (Matthiola incana), a cruciferous pl…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: cress, pungent, cruciferous, plant, including.
Horse-radish
noun · 78% connection
A plant of the genus Nasturtium (N. Armoracia), allied to scurvy grass, having a root of a pungent taste, much used, when grated, as a…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: cress, pungent, cruciferous, plant, including.
Lant
noun · 78% connection
Any one of several species of small, slender, marine fishes of the genus Ammedytes. The common European species (A. tobianus) and the…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: cress, pungent, cruciferous, plant, including.
Laserwort
noun · 78% connection
Any plant of the umbelliferous genus Laserpitium, of several species (as L. glabrum, and L. siler), the root of which yields a resinou…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: cress, pungent, cruciferous, plant, including.
Madwort
noun · 78% connection
A genus of cruciferous plants (Alyssum) with white or yellow flowers and rounded pods. A. maritimum is the commonly cultivated sweet a…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: cress, pungent, cruciferous, plant, including.
