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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: oblong, ovate, inclined, latter.
Altar
noun · 78% connection
A raised structure (as a square or oblong erection of stone or wood) on which sacrifices are offered or incense burned to a deity.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: oblong, ovate, inclined, latter.
Ark
noun · 78% connection
The oblong chest of acacia wood, overlaid with gold, which supported the mercy seat with its golden cherubs, and occupied the most sac…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: oblong, ovate, inclined, latter.
Bagatelle
noun · 78% connection
A game played on an oblong board, having, at one end, cups or arches into or through which balls are to be driven by a rod held in the…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: oblong, ovate, inclined, latter.
Barberry
noun · 78% connection
A shrub of the genus Berberis, common along roadsides and in neglected fields. B. vulgaris is the species best known; its oblong red b…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: oblong, ovate, inclined, latter.
Basidium
noun · 78% connection
A special oblong or pyriform cell, with slender branches, which bears the spores in that division of fungi called Basidiomycetes, of w…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: oblong, ovate, inclined, latter.
Betel
noun · 78% connection
A species of pepper (Piper betle), the leaves of which are chewed, with the areca or betel nut and a little shell lime, by the inhabit…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: oblong, ovate, inclined, latter.
Billet
noun · 78% connection
A bearing in the form of an oblong rectangle.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: oblong, ovate, inclined, latter.
Bloom
noun · 78% connection
A mass of wrought iron from the Catalan forge or from the puddling furnace, deprived of its dross, and shaped usually in the form of a…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: oblong, ovate, inclined, latter.
Board
noun · 78% connection
A square or oblong piece of thin wood or other material used for some special purpose, as, a molding board; a board or surface painted…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: oblong, ovate, inclined, latter.
Brick
noun · 78% connection
Any oblong rectangular mass; as, a brick of maple sugar; a penny brick (of bread).
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: oblong, ovate, inclined, latter.
Circus
noun · 78% connection
A level oblong space surrounded on three sides by seats of wood, earth, or stone, rising in tiers one above another, and divided lengt…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: oblong, ovate, inclined, latter.
Cocoon
noun · 78% connection
An oblong case in which the silkworm lies in its chrysalis state. It is formed of threads of silk spun by the worm just before leaving…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: oblong, ovate, inclined, latter.
Day lily
unknown · 78% connection
A genus of plants (Funkia) differing from the last in having ovate veiny leaves, and large white or blue flowers.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: oblong, ovate, inclined, latter.
Fiddle-shaped
adjective · 78% connection
Inversely ovate, with a deep hollow on each side.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: oblong, ovate, inclined, latter.
Half-moon
noun · 78% connection
A marine, sparoid, food fish of California (Caesiosoma Californiense). The body is ovate, blackish above, blue or gray below. Called a…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: oblong, ovate, inclined, latter.
Lilly-pilly
noun · 78% connection
An Australian myrtaceous tree (Eugenia Smithii), having smooth ovate leaves, and panicles of small white flowers. The wood is hard and…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: oblong, ovate, inclined, latter.
Manzanita
noun · 78% connection
A name given to several species of Arctostaphylos, but mostly to A. glauca and A. pungens, shrubs of California, Oregon, etc., with re…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: oblong, ovate, inclined, latter.
