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Alcohol
noun · 78% connection
Pure spirit of wine; pure or highly rectified spirit (called also ethyl alcohol); the spirituous or intoxicating element of fermented…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: nature, plant, vegetable, life.
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: nature, plant, vegetable, life.
Azoic
adjective · 78% connection
Destitute of any vestige of organic life, or at least of animal life; anterior to the existence of animal life; formed when there was…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: nature, plant, vegetable, life.
Bacterium
noun · 78% connection
A microscopic vegetable organism, belonging to the class Algae, usually in the form of a jointed rodlike filament, and found in putref…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: nature, plant, vegetable, life.
Casein
noun · 78% connection
A proteid substance present in both the animal and the vegetable kingdom. In the animal kingdom it is chiefly found in milk, and const…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: nature, plant, vegetable, life.
Climate
verb · 78% connection
The condition of a place in relation to various phenomena of the atmosphere, as temperature, moisture, etc., especially as they affect…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: nature, plant, vegetable, life.
Colloid
noun · 78% connection
A substance (as albumin, gum, gelatin, etc.) which is of a gelatinous rather than a crystalline nature, and which diffuses itself thro…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: nature, plant, vegetable, life.
Eutrophication
noun · 78% connection
excessive nutrients in a lake or other body of water, usually caused by runoff of nutrients (animal waste, fertilizers, sewage) from t…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: nature, plant, vegetable, life.
Existent
adjective · 78% connection
being or occurring in fact or actuality; having verified existence; not illusory; "real objects"; "real people, not ghosts"; "a film b…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: nature, plant, vegetable, life.
Exogen
noun · 78% connection
A plant belonging to one of the greater part of the vegetable kingdom, and which the plants are characterized by having c wood bark, a…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: nature, plant, vegetable, life.
Finochio
noun · 78% connection
An umbelliferous plant (Foeniculum dulce) having a somewhat tuberous stem; sweet fennel. The blanched stems are used in France and Ita…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: nature, plant, vegetable, life.
Function
noun · 78% connection
The appropriate action of any special organ or part of an animal or vegetable organism; as, the function of the heart or the limbs; th…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: nature, plant, vegetable, life.
Influence
noun · 78% connection
Hence, in general, the bringing about of an effect, phusical or moral, by a gradual process; controlling power quietly exerted; agency…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: nature, plant, vegetable, life.
Kermes
noun · 78% connection
The dried bodies of the females of a scale insect (Coccus ilicis), allied to the cochineal insect, and found on several species of oak…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: nature, plant, vegetable, life.
Kill
verb · 78% connection
To deprive of life, animal or vegetable, in any manner or by any means; to render inanimate; to put to death; to slay.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: nature, plant, vegetable, life.
Life
noun · 78% connection
A certain way or manner of living with respect to conditions, circumstances, character, conduct, occupation, etc.; hence, human affair…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: nature, plant, vegetable, life.
Life-saving
adjective · 78% connection
That saves life, or is suited to save life, esp. from drowning; as, the life-saving service; a life-saving station.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: nature, plant, vegetable, life.
Mandrake
noun · 78% connection
A low plant (Mandragora officinarum) of the Nightshade family, having a fleshy root, often forked, and supposed to resemble a man. It…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: nature, plant, vegetable, life.