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Pumpkin

A well-known trailing plant (Cucurbita pepo) and its fruit, -- used for cooking and for feeding stock; a pompion.

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Squash 76% connected

An American animal allied to the weasel.

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Vegetable 76% connected

Of or pertaining to plants; having the nature of, or produced by, plants; as, a vegetable nature; vegetable growths, juices, etc.

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Adventitious root noun · 78% connection

root growing in an unusual location e.g. from a stem

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Alehoof noun · 78% connection

trailing European aromatic plant of the mint family having rounded leaves and small purplish flowers often grown in hanging baskets; n…

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Bearberry noun · 78% connection

A trailing plant of the heath family (Arctostaphylos uva-ursi), having leaves which are tonic and astringent, and glossy red berries o…

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Beet noun · 78% connection

The root of plants of the genus Beta, different species and varieties of which are used for the table, for feeding stock, or in making…

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Branchiopod noun · 78% connection

aquatic crustaceans typically having a carapace and many pairs of leaflike appendages used for swimming as well as respiration and fee…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: well-known, trailing, plant, cucurbita, pepo.
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Bud verb · 78% connection

To graft, as a plant with another or into another, by inserting a bud from the one into an opening in the bark of the other, in order…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: well-known, trailing, plant, cucurbita, pepo.
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Corner noun · 78% connection

The state of things produced by a combination of persons, who buy up the whole or the available part of any stock or species of proper…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: well-known, trailing, plant, cucurbita, pepo.
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Dandelion noun · 78% connection

A well-known plant of the genus Taraxacum (T. officinale, formerly called T. Dens-leonis and Leontodos Taraxacum) bearing large, yello…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: well-known, trailing, plant, cucurbita, pepo.
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Familiar adjective · 78% connection

Well known; well understood; common; frequent; as, a familiar illustration.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: well-known, trailing, plant, cucurbita, pepo.
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Flagellum verb · 78% connection

A young, flexible shoot of a plant; esp., the long trailing branch of a vine, or a slender branch in certain mosses.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: well-known, trailing, plant, cucurbita, pepo.
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Gnathopod noun · 78% connection

One of a set of three paired appendages on the thorax of a decapod crustacean, located just posterior to the maxillae and used in feed…

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Granadilla noun · 78% connection

The fruit of certain species of passion flower (esp. Passiflora quadrangularis) found in Brazil and the West Indies. It is as large as…

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Guava noun · 78% connection

A tropical tree, or its fruit, of the genus Psidium. Two varieties are well known, the P. pyriferum, or white guava, and P. pomiferum,…

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Jalap noun · 78% connection

The tubers of the Mexican plant Ipomoea purga (or Exogonium purga), a climber much like the morning-glory. The abstract, extract, and…

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Juice noun · 78% connection

The characteristic fluid of any vegetable or animal substance; the sap or part which can be expressed from fruit, etc.; the fluid part…

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Key noun · 78% connection

An indehiscent, one-seeded fruit furnished with a wing, as the fruit of the ash and maple; a samara; -- called also key fruit.

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Knotwort noun · 78% connection

A small, herbaceous, trailing plant, of the genus Illecebrum (I. verticillatum).

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Leek noun · 78% connection

plant having a large slender white bulb and flat overlapping dark green leaves; used in cooking; believed derived from the wild Allium…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: well-known, trailing, plant, cucurbita, pepo.
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Lemon noun · 78% connection

An oval or roundish fruit resembling the orange, and containing a pulp usually intensely acid. It is produced by a tropical tree of th…

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