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Apse
noun · 78% connection
A projecting part of a building, esp. of a church, having in the plan a polygonal or semicircular termination, and, most often, projec…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: branch, projecting, part, prominent, ramification.
Auricle
noun · 78% connection
The external ear, or that part of the ear which is prominent from the head.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: branch, projecting, part, prominent, ramification.
Axil
noun · 78% connection
The angle or point of divergence between the upper side of a branch, leaf, or petiole, and the stem or branch from which it springs.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: branch, projecting, part, prominent, ramification.
Balcony
noun · 78% connection
A platform projecting from the wall of a building, usually resting on brackets or consoles, and inclosed by a parapet; as, a balcony i…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: branch, projecting, part, prominent, ramification.
Bough
noun · 78% connection
An arm or branch of a tree, esp. a large arm or main branch.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: branch, projecting, part, prominent, ramification.
Branch
noun · 78% connection
Any division extending like a branch; any arm or part connected with the main body of thing; ramification; as, the branch of an antler…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: branch, projecting, part, prominent, ramification.
Branchlet
noun · 78% connection
a small branch or division of a branch (especially a terminal division); usually applied to branches of the current or preceding year
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: branch, projecting, part, prominent, ramification.
Bumkin
noun · 78% connection
A projecting beam or boom; as: (a) One projecting from each bow of a vessel, to haul the fore tack to, called a tack bumpkin. (b) One…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: branch, projecting, part, prominent, ramification.
Bush
noun · 78% connection
A shrub or branch, properly, a branch of ivy (as sacred to Bacchus), hung out at vintners' doors, or as a tavern sign; hence, a tavern…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: branch, projecting, part, prominent, ramification.
Capitular
noun · 78% connection
The head or prominent part.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: branch, projecting, part, prominent, ramification.
Clitic
noun · 78% connection
a word that is treated in pronunciation as forming a part of a neighboring word and that is often unaccented or contracted.; "Most lan…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: branch, projecting, part, prominent, ramification.
Crunode
noun · 78% connection
A point where one branch of a curve crosses another branch. See Double point, under Double, a.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: branch, projecting, part, prominent, ramification.
Figurant
n. masc. · 78% connection
One who dances at the opera, not singly, but in groups or figures; an accessory character on the stage, who figures in its scenes, but…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: branch, projecting, part, prominent, ramification.
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: branch, projecting, part, prominent, ramification.
Fringe
noun · 78% connection
An ornamental appendage to the border of a piece of stuff, originally consisting of the ends of the warp, projecting beyond the woven…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: branch, projecting, part, prominent, ramification.
Geodesy
noun · 78% connection
That branch of applied mathematics which determines, by means of observations and measurements, the figures and areas of large portion…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: branch, projecting, part, prominent, ramification.
Heel
noun · 78% connection
The hinder part of any covering for the foot, as of a shoe, sock, etc.; specif., a solid part projecting downward from the hinder part…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: branch, projecting, part, prominent, ramification.
Hypothenar
adjective · 78% connection
Of or pertaining to the prominent part of the palm of the hand above the base of the little finger, or a corresponding part in the for…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: branch, projecting, part, prominent, ramification.
