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Ache
noun · 78% connection
A name given to several species of plants; as, smallage, wild celery, parsley.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: name, given, several, species, plants.
Analogue
noun · 78% connection
A species or genus in one country closely related to a species of the same genus, or a genus of the same group, in another: such speci…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: name, given, several, species, plants.
Angular
adjective · 78% connection
Fig.: Lean; lank; raw-boned; ungraceful; sharp and stiff in character; as, remarkably angular in his habits and appearance; an angular…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: name, given, several, species, plants.
Angulation
noun · 78% connection
A making angular; angular formation.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: name, given, several, species, plants.
Anomaly
noun · 78% connection
The angular distance of a planet from its perihelion, as seen from the sun. This is the true anomaly. The eccentric anomaly is a corre…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: name, given, several, species, plants.
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, given, several, species, plants.
Basil
noun · 78% connection
The name given to several aromatic herbs of the Mint family, but chiefly to the common or sweet basil (Ocymum basilicum), and the bush…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: name, given, several, species, plants.
Besiege
verb · 78% connection
To beset or surround with armed forces, for the purpose of compelling to surrender; to lay siege to; to beleaguer; to beset.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: name, given, several, species, plants.
Blueberry
noun · 78% connection
The berry of several species of Vaccinium, an ericaceous genus, differing from the American huckleberries in containing numerous minut…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: name, given, several, species, plants.
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, given, several, species, plants.
Broom rape
unknown · 78% connection
A genus (Orobanche) of parasitic plants of Europe and Asia. They are destitute of chlorophyll, have scales instead of leaves, and spik…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: name, given, several, species, plants.
Cactus
noun · 78% connection
Any plant of the order Cactacae, as the prickly pear and the night-blooming cereus. See Cereus. They usually have leafless stems and b…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: name, given, several, species, plants.
Cane
noun · 78% connection
A name given to several peculiar palms, species of Calamus and Daemanorops, having very long, smooth flexible stems, commonly called r…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: name, given, several, species, plants.
Capuchin
noun · 78% connection
A long-tailed South American monkey (Cabus capucinus), having the forehead naked and wrinkled, with the hair on the crown reflexed and…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: name, given, several, species, plants.
Cleistogamous
adjective · 78% connection
Having, beside the usual flowers, other minute, closed flowers, without petals or with minute petals; -- said of certain species of pl…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: name, given, several, species, plants.
Crocodile
noun · 78% connection
A large reptile of the genus Crocodilus, of several species. They grow to the length of sixteen or eighteen feet, and inhabit the larg…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: name, given, several, species, plants.
Crosswort
noun · 78% connection
A name given to several inconspicuous plants having leaves in whorls of four, as species of Crucianella, Valantia, etc.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: name, given, several, species, plants.
Cyclamen
noun · 78% connection
A genus of plants of the Primrose family, having depressed rounded corms, and pretty nodding flowers with the petals so reflexed as to…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: name, given, several, species, plants.
