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Windflower

The anemone; -- so called because formerly supposed to open only when the wind was blowing. See Anemone.

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Flower 76% connected

In the popular sense, the bloom or blossom of a plant; the showy portion, usually of a different color, shape, and texture from the foliage.

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Snowdrop 76% connected

A bulbous plant (Galanthus nivalis) bearing white flowers, which often appear while the snow is on the ground. It is cultivated in gardens for its be…

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Thimbleweed 76% connected

Any plant of the composite genus Rudbeckia, coarse herbs somewhat resembling the sunflower; -- so called from their conical receptacles.

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Anemone 92% connected

A genus of plants of the Ranunculus or Crowfoot family; windflower. Some of the species are cultivated in gardens.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Angiosperm noun · 86% connection

plants having seeds in a closed ovary

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Annual noun · 86% connection

(botany) a plant that completes its entire life cycle within the space of a year

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Apophysis noun · 86% connection

(botany) a natural swelling or enlargement: at the base of the stalk or seta in certain mosses or on the cone scale of certain conifers

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Bast noun · 86% connection

(botany) tissue that conducts synthesized food substances (e.g., from leaves) to parts where needed; consists primarily of sieve tubes

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Biennial noun · 86% connection

(botany) a plant having a life cycle that normally takes two seasons from germination to death to complete; flowering biennials usuall…

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Blister noun · 86% connection

(botany) a swelling on a plant similar to that on the skin

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Callus noun · 86% connection

(botany) an isolated thickening of tissue, especially a stiff protuberance on the lip of an orchid

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Calyx noun · 86% connection

(botany) the whorl of sepals of a flower collectively forming the outer floral envelope or layer of the perianth enclosing and support…

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Coma noun · 86% connection

(botany) a usually terminal tuft of bracts (as in the pineapple) or tuft of hairs (especially on certain seeds)

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Corolla noun · 86% connection

(botany) the whorl of petals of a flower that collectively form an inner floral envelope or layer of the perianth; "we cultivate the f…

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Corona noun · 86% connection

(botany) the trumpet-shaped or cup-shaped outgrowth of the corolla of a daffodil or narcissus flower

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Embryo noun · 86% connection

(botany) a minute rudimentary plant contained within a seed or an archegonium

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Fern noun · 86% connection

any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward; reproduce by s…

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Flowering plant noun · 86% connection

plants having seeds in a closed ovary

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Germ tube noun · 86% connection

(botany) a slender tubular outgrowth from a spore in germination

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Leaf node noun · 86% connection

(botany) the small swelling that is the part of a plant stem from which one or more leaves emerge

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Ligule noun · 86% connection

(botany) any appendage to a plant that is shaped like a strap

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Lip noun · 86% connection

(botany) either of the two parts of a bilabiate corolla or calyx

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Actinia noun · 78% connection

any sea anemone or related animal

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: anemone, called, formerly, supposed, open.
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Actiniform adjective · 78% connection

Having a radiated form, like a sea anemone.

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Actinozoa n. pl. · 78% connection

A group of Coelenterata, comprising the Anthozoa and Ctenophora. The sea anemone, or actinia, is a familiar example.

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Anemonic adjective · 78% connection

An acrid, poisonous, crystallizable substance, obtained from, the anemone, or from anemonin.

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Anemonin noun · 78% connection

An acrid, poisonous, crystallizable substance, obtained from some species of anemone.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: anemone, called, formerly, supposed, open.
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Anemony noun · 78% connection

See Anemone.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: anemone, called, formerly, supposed, open.
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Anemorphilous adjective · 78% connection

Fertilized by the agency of the wind; -- said of plants in which the pollen is carried to the stigma by the wind; wind-Fertilized.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: anemone, called, formerly, supposed, open.
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Anemoscope noun · 78% connection

An instrument which shows the direction of the wind; a wind vane; a weathercock; -- usually applied to a contrivance consisting of a v…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: anemone, called, formerly, supposed, open.
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Anti-trade noun · 78% connection

A tropical wind blowing steadily in a direction opposite to the trade wind.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: anemone, called, formerly, supposed, open.
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Atmosphere noun · 78% connection

A supposed medium around various bodies; as, electrical atmosphere, a medium formerly supposed to surround electrical bodies.

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Bellows n. sing. & pl. · 78% connection

An instrument, utensil, or machine, which, by alternate expansion and contraction, or by rise and fall of the top, draws in air throug…

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