a variety of a plant developed from a natural species and maintained under cultivation
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family of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Plants, Taxonomy systematics.genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Plants, Taxonomy systematics.families of ferns and fern allies
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Plants, Taxonomy systematics.genera of ferns and fern allies
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Plants, Taxonomy systematics.includes lichen families
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Plants, Taxonomy systematics.includes lichen genera
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Plants, Taxonomy systematics.the order of fungi
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Plants, Taxonomy systematics.a genus of gymnosperms
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Plants, Taxonomy systematics.family of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Plants, Taxonomy systematics.genus of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Plants, Taxonomy systematics.family of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Plants, Taxonomy systematics.genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Plants, Taxonomy systematics.family of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Plants, Taxonomy systematics.genus of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Plants, Taxonomy systematics.a family of mosses
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Plants, Taxonomy systematics.a genus of mosses
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Plants, Taxonomy systematics.a genus of plants
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the criminal act of capturing and carrying away by force a family member; if a man's wife is abducted it is a crime against the family…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: family, plants.Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the family of plants of which the acanthus is the type.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: family, plants.A genus of plants of the family Ranunculaceae, containing the pheasant's eye (Adonis autumnalis); -- named from Adonis, whose blood wa…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: family, plants.A genus of plants of the Rose family.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: family, plants.A genus of plants of the Mallow family. It includes the officinal marsh mallow, and the garden hollyhocks.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: family, plants.Of, pertaining to, or resembling, an order of plants differing from the lily family chiefly in having the ovary below the /etals. The…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: family, plants.An insect of the order Hymenoptera, and family Apidae (the honeybees), or family Andrenidae (the solitary bees.) See Honeybee.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: family, plants.Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a family of plants (Boraginaceae) which includes the borage, heliotrope, beggar's lice, and many pes…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: family, plants.A line of family descent, in distinction from some other line or lines from the same stock; any descendant in such a line; as, the Eng…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: family, plants.The member of a family whose labor supplies the food of the family; one who works for his living.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: family, plants.Pertaining to, or resembling, a family of endogenous and mostly epiphytic or saxicolous plants of which the genera Tillandsia and Bill…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: family, plants.A genus (Orobanche) of parasitic plants of Europe and Asia. They are destitute of chlorophyll, have scales instead of leaves, and spik…
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