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Plant

A vegetable; an organized living being, generally without feeling and voluntary motion, and having, when complete, a root, stem, and leaves, though consisting sometimes only of a single leafy expansion, or a series of cellules, or even a single cellule.

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Narrower term 29

Acrogen 76% connected

A plant of the highest class of cryptogams, including the ferns, etc. See Cryptogamia.

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Aerophyte 76% connected

A plant growing entirely in the air, and receiving its nourishment from it; an air plant or epiphyte.

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Air plant 76% connected

A plant deriving its sustenance from the air alone; an aerophyte.

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Annual 76% connected

Of or pertaining to a year; returning every year; coming or happening once in the year; yearly.

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Aquatic 76% connected

Pertaining to water; growing in water; living in, swimming in, or frequenting the margins of waters; as, aquatic plants and fowls.

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autotroph 76% connected

An organism that produces its own food, typically through photosynthesis

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Biennial 76% connected

Happening, or taking place, once in two years; as, a biennial election.

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Brewery 76% connected

A brewhouse; the building and apparatus where brewing is carried on.

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Crop 76% connected

The pouchlike enlargement of the gullet of birds, serving as a receptacle for food; the craw.

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Cryptogam 76% connected

A plant belonging to the Cryptogamia.

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Distillery 76% connected

The building and works where distilling, esp. of alcoholic liquors, is carried on.

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Embryo 76% connected

The first rudiments of an organism, whether animal or plant

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Epiphyte 76% connected

An air plant which grows on other plants, but does not derive its nourishment from them. See Air plant.

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Escape 76% connected

To flee from and avoid; to be saved or exempt from; to shun; to obtain security from; as, to escape danger.

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Factory 76% connected

A house or place where factors, or commercial agents, reside, to transact business for their employers.

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Manufactory 76% connected

Manufacture.

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Mill 76% connected

A money of account of the United States, having the value of the tenth of a cent, or the thousandth of a dollar.

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Mint 76% connected

The name of several aromatic labiate plants, mostly of the genus Mentha, yielding odoriferous essential oils by distillation. See Mentha.

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Monocarp 76% connected

A monocarpic plant.

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Neophyte 76% connected

A new convert or proselyte; -- a name given by the early Christians, and still given by the Roman Catholics, to such as have recently embraced the Ch…

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Ornamental 76% connected

Serving to ornament; characterized by ornament; beautifying; embellishing.

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Perennial 76% connected

ing or continuing through the year; as, perennial fountains.

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Plantlet 76% connected

A little plant.

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Refinery 76% connected

The building and apparatus for refining or purifying, esp. metals and sugar.

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Smelter 76% connected

One who, or that which, smelts.

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Smeltery 76% connected

A house or place for smelting.

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Still 76% connected

Motionless; at rest; quiet; as, to stand still; to lie or sit still.

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Wilding 76% connected

A wild or uncultivated plant; especially, a wild apple tree or crab apple; also, the fruit of such a plant.

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Winery 76% connected

A place where grapes are converted into wine.

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Broader term 25

Actor 76% connected

One who acts, or takes part in any affair; a doer.

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Being 76% connected

of Be

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Communicate 76% connected

To share in common; to participate in.

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Complex 76% connected

Composed of two or more parts; composite; not simple; as, a complex being; a complex idea.

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Contrivance 76% connected

The act or faculty of contriving, inventing, devising, or planning.

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Dodge 76% connected

To start suddenly aside, as to avoid a blow or a missile; to shift place by a sudden start.

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Enter 76% connected

To come or go into; to pass into the interior of; to pass within the outer cover or shell of; to penetrate; to pierce; as, to enter a house, a closet…

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Histrion 76% connected

A player.

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Infix 76% connected

To set; to fasten or fix by piercing or thrusting in; as, to infix a sting, spear, or dart.

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Initiate 76% connected

To introduce by a first act; to make a beginning with; to set afoot; to originate; to commence; to begin or enter upon.

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Insert 76% connected

To set within something; to put or thrust in; to introduce; to cause to enter, or be included, or contained; as, to insert a scion in a stock; to ins…

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Introduce 76% connected

To lead or bring in; to conduct or usher in; as, to introduce a person into a drawing-room.

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Lay 76% connected

of Lie, to recline.

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Organism 76% connected

Organic structure; organization.

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Pass 76% connected

To go; to move; to proceed; to be moved or transferred from one point to another; to make a transit; -- usually with a following adverb or adverbal p…

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Pioneer 76% connected

A soldier detailed or employed to form roads, dig trenches, and make bridges, as an army advances.

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Place 76% connected

Any portion of space regarded as measured off or distinct from all other space, or appropriated to some definite object or use; position; ground; sit…

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Player 76% connected

One who plays, or amuses himself; one without serious aims; an idler; a trifler.

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Pose 76% connected

Standing still, with all the feet on the ground; -- said of the attitude of a lion, horse, or other beast.

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Position 76% connected

The state of being posited, or placed; the manner in which anything is placed; attitude; condition; as, a firm, an inclined, or an upright position.

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Put 76% connected

A pit.

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Set 76% connected

of Set

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Stock 76% connected

The stem, or main body, of a tree or plant; the fixed, strong, firm part; the trunk.

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Stratagem 76% connected

An artifice or trick in war for deceiving the enemy; hence, in general, artifice; deceptive device; secret plot; evil machination.

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Thespian 76% connected

Of or pertaining to Thespis; hence, relating to the drama; dramatic; as, the Thespian art.

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Manner of action 17

Afforest 76% connected

To convert into a forest; as, to afforest a tract of country.

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Appoint 76% connected

To fix with power or firmness; to establish; to mark out.

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Bed 76% connected

An article of furniture to sleep or take rest in or on; a couch. Specifically: A sack or mattress, filled with some soft material, in distinction fro…

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Bury 76% connected

A borough; a manor; as, the Bury of St. Edmond's

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Constitute 76% connected

To cause to stand; to establish; to enact.

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Dibble 76% connected

A pointed implement used to make holes in the ground in which no set out plants or to plant seeds.

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Fix 76% connected

Fixed; solidified.

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Forest 76% connected

An extensive wood; a large tract of land covered with trees; in the United States, a wood of native growth, or a tract of woodland which has never be…

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Name 76% connected

The title by which any person or thing is known or designated; a distinctive specific appellation, whether of an individual or a class.

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Nest 76% connected

The bed or receptacle prepared by a fowl for holding her eggs and for hatching and rearing her young.

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Nominate 76% connected

To mention by name; to name.

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Pot 76% connected

A metallic or earthen vessel, appropriated to any of a great variety of uses, as for boiling meat or vegetables, for holding liquids, for plants, etc…

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Puddle 76% connected

A small quantity of dirty standing water; a muddy plash; a small pool.

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Replant 76% connected

To plant again.

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Root 76% connected

To turn up the earth with the snout, as swine.

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Sink 76% connected

To fall by, or as by, the force of gravity; to descend lower and lower; to decline gradually; to subside; as, a stone sinks in water; waves rise and…

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Tree 76% connected

Any perennial woody plant of considerable size (usually over twenty feet high) and growing with a single trunk.

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Flora 74% connected

The goddess of flowers and spring.

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Flora 74% connected

The goddess of flowers and spring.

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Floral 74% connected

Pertaining to Flora, or to flowers; made of flowers; as, floral games, wreaths.

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Floral 74% connected

Pertaining to Flora, or to flowers; made of flowers; as, floral games, wreaths.

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Foundation 74% connected

The act of founding, fixing, establishing, or beginning to erect.

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Foundation 74% connected

The act of founding, fixing, establishing, or beginning to erect.

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Planter 74% connected

One who, or that which, plants or sows; as, a planterof corn; a machine planter.

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Planter 74% connected

One who, or that which, plants or sows; as, a planterof corn; a machine planter.

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Component part 2

Cap 70% connected

A covering for the head

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Hood 70% connected

State; condition.

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Constitute 92% connected

To cause to stand; to establish; to enact.

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Embed 92% connected

To lay as in a bed; to lay in surrounding matter; to bed; as, to embed a thing in clay, mortar, or sand.

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Engraft 92% connected

See Ingraft.

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Establish 92% connected

To make stable or firm; to fix immovably or firmly; to set (a thing) in a place and make it stable there; to settle; to confirm.

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Flora 92% connected

The goddess of flowers and spring.

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Found 92% connected

of Find

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Imbed 92% connected

To sink or lay, as in a bed; to deposit in a partly inclosing mass, as of clay or mortar; to cover, as with earth, sand, etc.

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Implant 92% connected

To plant, or infix, for the purpose of growth; to fix deeply; to instill; to inculate; to introduce; as, to implant the seeds of virtue, or the princ…

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Institute 92% connected

Established; organized; founded.

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Set 92% connected

of Set

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