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Air vessel
unknown · 78% connection
A vessel, cell, duct, or tube containing or conducting air; as the air vessels of insects, birds, plants, etc.; the air vessel of a pu…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: name, several, east, indian, wood.
Appellative
noun · 78% connection
A common name, in distinction from a proper name. A common name, or appellative, stands for a whole class, genus, or species of beings…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: name, several, east, indian, wood.
Bethabara wood
unknown · 78% connection
A highly elastic wood, used for fishing rods, etc. The tree is unknown, but it is thought to be East Indian.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: name, several, east, indian, wood.
Blackwood
noun · 78% connection
A name given to several dark-colored timbers. The East Indian black wood is from the tree Dalbergia latifolia.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: name, several, east, indian, wood.
Bluets
adjective · 78% connection
A name given to several different species of plants having blue flowers, as the Houstonia coerulea, the Centaurea cyanus or bluebottle…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: name, several, east, indian, wood.
Cap
noun · 78% connection
A collar of iron or wood used in joining spars, as the mast and the topmast, the bowsprit and the jib boom; also, a covering of tarred…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: name, several, east, indian, wood.
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: name, several, east, indian, wood.
Chank
noun · 78% connection
The East Indian name for the large spiral shell of several species of sea conch much used in making bangles, esp. Turbinella pyrum. Ca…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: name, several, east, indian, wood.
Coolie
noun · 78% connection
An East Indian porter or carrier; a laborer transported from the East Indies, China, or Japan, for service in some other country.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: name, several, east, indian, wood.
Crosstrees
n. pl. · 78% connection
Pieces of timber at a masthead, to which are attached the upper shrouds. At the head of lower masts in large vessels, they support a s…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: name, several, east, indian, wood.
Dismast
verb · 78% connection
To deprive of a mast of masts; to break and carry away the masts from; as, a storm dismasted the ship.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: name, several, east, indian, wood.
East
adjective · 78% connection
Toward the rising sun; or toward the point where the sun rises when in the equinoctial; as, the east gate; the east border; the east s…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: name, several, east, indian, wood.
Gurjun
noun · 78% connection
A thin balsam or wood oil derived from the Diptcrocarpus laevis, an East Indian tree. It is used in medicine, and as a substitute for…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: name, several, east, indian, wood.
Indian
adjective · 78% connection
Made of maize or Indian corn; as, Indian corn, Indian meal, Indian bread, and the like.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: name, several, east, indian, wood.
Indo-
unknown · 78% connection
A prefix signifying Indian (i. e., East Indian); of or pertaining of India.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: name, several, east, indian, wood.
Jacaranda
noun · 78% connection
The native Brazilian name for certain leguminous trees, which produce the beautiful woods called king wood, tiger wood, and violet woo…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: name, several, east, indian, wood.
Lablab
noun · 78% connection
an East Indian name for several twining leguminous plants related to the bean, but commonly applied to the hyacinth bean (Dolichos Lab…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: name, several, east, indian, wood.
Linsang
noun · 78% connection
Any viverrine mammal of the genus Prionodon, inhabiting the East Indies and Southern Asia. The common East Indian linsang (P. gracilis…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: name, several, east, indian, wood.
