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Sweat :: Sweat (v. i.) To emit moisture, as green plants in a heap..

Beak :: Beak (n.) Any process somewhat like the beak of a bird, terminating the fruit or other parts of a plant..

Viola :: Viola (n.) A genus of polypetalous herbaceous plants, including all kinds of violets..

Ant-cattle :: Ant-cattle (n.) Various kinds of plant lice or aphids tended by ants for the sake of the honeydew which they secrete. See Aphips.

Colony :: Colony (n.) A company of people transplanted from their mother country to a remote province or country, and remaining subject to the jurisdiction of the parent state; as, the British colonies in America..

Phanerogamia :: Phanerogamia (n. pl.) That one of the two primary divisions of the vegetable kingdom which contains the phanerogamic, or flowering, plants..

Botany Bay :: Botany Bay () A harbor on the east coast of Australia, and an English convict settlement there; -- so called from the number of new plants found on its shore at its discovery by Cook in 1770..

Digitigrade :: Digitigrade (n.) An animal that walks on its toes, as the cat, lion, wolf, etc.; -- distinguished from a plantigrade, which walks on the palm of the foot..

Lenticel :: Lenticel (n.) One of the small, oval, rounded spots upon the stem or branch of a plant, from which the underlying tissues may protrude or roots may issue, either in the air, or more commonly when the stem or branch is covered with water or earth..

Curcuma :: Curcuma (n.) A genus of plants of the order Scitamineae, including the turmeric plant (Curcuma longa)..

Nardoo :: Nardoo (n.) An Australian name for Marsilea Drummondii, a four-leaved cryptogamous plant, sometimes used for food..

Sleep-at-noon :: Sleep-at-noon (n.) A plant (Tragopogon pratensis) which closes its flowers at midday; a kind of goat's beard.

Nondo :: Nondo (n.) A coarse umbelliferous plant (Ligusticum actaeifolium) with a large aromatic root. It is found chiefly in the Alleghany region. Also called Angelico.

Fecula :: Fecula (n.) Any pulverulent matter obtained from plants by simply breaking down the texture, washing with water, and subsidence..

Gum :: Gum (n.) A vegetable secretion of many trees or plants that hardens when it exudes, but is soluble in water; as, gum arabic; gum tragacanth; the gum of the cherry tree. Also, with less propriety, exudations that are not soluble in water; as, gum copal and gum sandarac, which are really resins..

Evergreen :: Evergreen (n.) Twigs and branches of evergreen plants used for decoration.

Quamoclit :: Quamoclit (n.) Formerly, a genus of plants including the cypress vine (Quamoclit vulgaris, now called Ipomoea Quamoclit). The genus is now merged in Ipomoea..

Collar :: Collar (n.) The neck or line of junction between the root of a plant and its stem.

Asclepiadaceous :: Asclepiadaceous (a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, plants of the Milkweed family..

Utricle :: Utricle (n.) A microscopic cell in the structure of an egg, animal, or plant..

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