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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, plants, soft.
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, plants, soft.
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, plants, soft.
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, plants, soft.
Buchu
noun · 78% connection
A South African shrub (Barosma) with small leaves that are dotted with oil glands; also, the leaves themselves, which are used in medi…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: name, given, several, plants, soft.
Claret
noun · 78% connection
The name first given in England to the red wines of Medoc, in France, and afterwards extended to all the red Bordeaux wines. The name…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: name, given, several, plants, soft.
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, plants, soft.
Cudweed
noun · 78% connection
A small composite plant with cottony or silky stem and leaves, primarily a species of Gnaphalium, but the name is now given to many pl…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: name, given, several, plants, soft.
Figeater
noun · 78% connection
A large beetle (Allorhina nitida) which in the Southern United States destroys figs. The elytra are velvety green with pale borders.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: name, given, several, plants, soft.
Flock
sing. / pl. · 78% connection
Very fine, sifted, woolen refuse, especially that from shearing the nap of cloths, used as a coating for wall paper to give it a velve…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: name, given, several, plants, soft.
Honeydew
noun · 78% connection
A sweet, saccharine substance, found on the leaves of trees and other plants in small drops, like dew. Two substances have been called…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: name, given, several, plants, soft.
Lion's ear
unknown · 78% connection
A name given in Western South America to certain plants with shaggy tomentose leaves, as species of Culcitium, and Espeletia.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: name, given, several, plants, soft.
Malvaceous
adjective · 78% connection
Pertaining to, or resembling, a natural order of plants (Malvaceae), of which the mallow is the type. The cotton plant, hollyhock, and…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: name, given, several, plants, soft.
Manzanita
noun · 78% connection
A name given to several species of Arctostaphylos, but mostly to A. glauca and A. pungens, shrubs of California, Oregon, etc., with re…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: name, given, several, plants, soft.
Mole
noun · 78% connection
small velvety-furred burrowing mammal having small eyes and fossorial forefeet
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: name, given, several, plants, soft.
Moleskin
noun · 78% connection
a durable cotton fabric with a velvety nap
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: name, given, several, plants, soft.
Moquette
noun · 78% connection
a thick velvety synthetic fabric used for carpets and soft upholstery
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: name, given, several, plants, soft.
Nepenthes
noun · 78% connection
A genus of climbing plants found in India, Malaya, etc., which have the leaves prolonged into a kind of stout tendril terminating in a…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: name, given, several, plants, soft.
