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Abies
noun · 78% connection
A genus of coniferous trees, properly called Fir, as the balsam fir and the silver fir. The spruces are sometimes also referred to thi…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, coniferous, trees, northen, hemisphere.
Blackburnian warbler
noun · 78% connection
black-and-white North American wood warbler having an orange-and-black head and throat
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, coniferous, trees, northen, hemisphere.
Catalpa
noun · 78% connection
A genus of American and East Indian trees, of which the best know species are the Catalpa bignonioides, a large, ornamental North Amer…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, coniferous, trees, northen, hemisphere.
Coniferin
noun · 78% connection
A glucoside extracted from the cambium layer of coniferous trees as a white crystalline substance.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, coniferous, trees, northen, hemisphere.
Coriolis effect
noun · 78% connection
(physics) an effect whereby a body moving in a rotating frame of reference experiences the Coriolis force acting perpendicular to the…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, coniferous, trees, northen, hemisphere.
Elder
noun · 78% connection
any of numerous shrubs or small trees of temperate and subtropical Northern Hemisphere having white flowers and berrylike fruit
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, coniferous, trees, northen, hemisphere.
Eugenia
noun · 78% connection
A genus of myrtaceous plants, mostly of tropical countries, and including several aromatic trees and shrubs, among which are the trees…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, coniferous, trees, northen, hemisphere.
Euxenite
noun · 78% connection
A brownish black mineral with a metallic luster, found in Norway. It contains niobium, titanium, yttrium, and uranium, with some other…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, coniferous, trees, northen, hemisphere.
Fir
noun · 78% connection
A genus (Abies) of coniferous trees, often of large size and elegant shape, some of them valued for their timber and others for their…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, coniferous, trees, northen, hemisphere.
Frankincense
noun · 78% connection
A fragrant, aromatic resin, or gum resin, burned as an incense in religious rites or for medicinal fumigation. The best kinds now come…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, coniferous, trees, northen, hemisphere.
Fraxinus
noun · 78% connection
A genus of deciduous forest trees, found in the north temperate zone, and including the true ash trees.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, coniferous, trees, northen, hemisphere.
Hackmatack
noun · 78% connection
The American larch (Larix Americana), a coniferous tree with slender deciduous leaves; also, its heavy, close-grained timber. Called a…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, coniferous, trees, northen, hemisphere.
Halesia
noun · 78% connection
A genus of American shrubs containing several species, called snowdrop trees, or silver-bell trees. They have showy, white flowers, dr…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, coniferous, trees, northen, hemisphere.
Juglans
noun · 78% connection
A genus of valuable trees, including the true walnut of Europe, and the America black walnut, and butternut.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, coniferous, trees, northen, hemisphere.
Juneberry
noun · 78% connection
any of various North American trees or shrubs having showy white flowers and edible blue-black or purplish fruit
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, coniferous, trees, northen, hemisphere.
Larch
noun · 78% connection
A genus of coniferous trees, having deciduous leaves, in fascicles (see Illust. of Fascicle).
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, coniferous, trees, northen, hemisphere.
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…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, coniferous, trees, northen, hemisphere.
Maple
noun · 78% connection
A tree of the genus Acer, including about fifty species. A. saccharinum is the rock maple, or sugar maple, from the sap of which sugar…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, coniferous, trees, northen, hemisphere.
