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Oilseed

Seed from which oil is expressed, as the castor bean; also, the plant yielding such seed. See Castor bean.

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Castor bean 76% connected

The bean or seed of the castor-oil plant (Ricinus communis, or Palma Christi.)

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Flaxseed 76% connected

The seed of the flax; linseed.

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Linseed 76% connected

The seeds of flax, from which linseed oil is obtained.

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Seed 76% connected

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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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-ferous unknown · 78% connection

A suffix signifying bearing, producing, yielding; as, auriferous, yielding gold; chyliferous, producing chyle.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: seed, expressed, castor, bean, plant.
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Balsam noun · 78% connection

any seed plant yielding balsam

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Buck bean unknown · 78% connection

A plant (Menyanthes trifoliata) which grows in moist and boggy places, having racemes of white or reddish flowers and intensely bitter…

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Caraway noun · 78% connection

a Eurasian plant with small white flowers yielding caraway seed

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Carob noun · 78% connection

One of the long, sweet, succulent, pods of the carob tree, which are used as food for animals and sometimes eaten by man; -- called al…

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Castor oil noun · 78% connection

a purgative extracted from the seed of the castor-oil plant; used in paint and varnish as well as medically

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Eserine noun · 78% connection

An alkaloid found in the Calabar bean, and the seed of Physostigma venenosum; physostigmine. It is used in ophthalmic surgery for its…

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Fabaceous adjective · 78% connection

Having the nature of a bean; like a bean.

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Flax noun · 78% connection

A plant of the genus Linum, esp. the L. usitatissimum, which has a single, slender stalk, about a foot and a half high, with blue flow…

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Florida bean unknown · 78% connection

The large, roundish, flattened seed of Mucuna urens. See under Bean.

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Haricot noun · 78% connection

a French variety of green bean plant bearing light-colored beans

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