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Strobile

A scaly multiple fruit resulting from the ripening of an ament in certain plants, as the hop or pine; a cone. See Cone, n., 3.

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Conifer 70% connected

A tree or shrub bearing cones; one of the order Coniferae, which includes the pine, cypress, and (according to some) the yew.

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Horsetail 70% connected

A leafless plant, with hollow and rushlike stems. It is of the genus Equisetum, and is allied to the ferns. See Illust. of Equisetum.

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Lycopod 70% connected

A plant of the genus Lycopodium.

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Cone 92% connected

A solid of the form described by the revolution of a right-angled triangle about one of the sides adjacent to the right angle; -- called also a right…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Acinus noun · 78% connection

one of the small drupes making up an aggregate or multiple fruit like a blackberry

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Advance verb · 78% connection

To accelerate the growth or progress; to further; to forward; to help on; to aid; to heighten; as, to advance the ripening of fruit; t…

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Amentaceous adjective · 78% connection

Resembling, or consisting of, an ament or aments; as, the chestnut has an amentaceous inflorescence.

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Amentum noun · 78% connection

Same as Ament.

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Amphicarpous adjective · 78% connection

Producing fruit of two kinds, either as to form or time of ripening.

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Bond noun · 78% connection

A writing under seal, by which a person binds himself, his heirs, executors, and administrators, to pay a certain sum on or before a f…

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Catkin noun · 78% connection

An ament; a species of inflorescence, consisting of a slender axis with many unisexual apetalous flowers along its sides, as in the wi…

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Conico- adjective · 78% connection

A combining form, meaning somewhat resembling a cone; as, conico-cylindrical, resembling a cone and a cylinder; conico-hemispherical;…

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Fig noun · 78% connection

fleshy sweet pear-shaped yellowish or purple multiple fruit eaten fresh or preserved or dried

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Fructescence noun · 78% connection

The maturing or ripening of fruit.

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Fusee noun · 78% connection

The cone or conical wheel of a watch or clock, designed to equalize the power of the mainspring by having the chain from the barrel wh…

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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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Hyperbola noun · 78% connection

A curve formed by a section of a cone, when the cutting plane makes a greater angle with the base than the side of the cone makes. It…

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Hypogeous adjective · 78% connection

Growing under ground; remaining under ground; ripening its fruit under ground.

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Julaceous adjective · 78% connection

Like an ament, or bearing aments; amentaceous.

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Julus noun · 78% connection

A catkin or ament. See Ament.

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Lambert pine unknown · 78% connection

The gigantic sugar pine of California and Oregon (Pinus Lambertiana). It has the leaves in fives, and cones a foot long. The timber is…

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Lcm noun · 78% connection

the smallest multiple that is exactly divisible by every member of a set of numbers; "the least common multiple of 12 and 18 is 36"

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