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Elecampane :: Elecampane (n.) A sweetmeat made from the root of the plant.

Thysanoptera :: Thysanoptera (n. pl.) A division of insects, considered by some writers a distinct order, but regarded by others as belonging to the Hemiptera. They are all of small size, and have narrow, broadly fringed wings with rudimentary nervures. Most of the species feed upon the juices of plants, and some, as those which attack grain, are very injurious to crops. Called also Physopoda. See Thrips..

Spermophyta :: Spermophyta (n. pl.) Plants which produce seed; phaenogamia. These plants constitute the highest grand division of the vegetable kingdom.

Siliquosa :: Siliquosa (n. pl.) A Linnaean order of plants including those which bear siliques.

Settlement :: Settlement (n.) The act of peopling, or state of being peopled; act of planting, as a colony; colonization; occupation by settlers; as, the settlement of a new country..

Metamere :: Metamere (n.) One of successive or homodynamous parts in animals and plants; one of a series of similar parts that follow one another in a vertebrate or articulate animal, as in an earthworm; a segment; a somite. See Illust. of Loeven's larva..

Rape :: Rape (n.) A name given to a variety or to varieties of a plant of the turnip kind, grown for seeds and herbage. The seeds are used for the production of rape oil, and to a limited extent for the food of cage birds..

Plantule :: Plantule (n.) The embryo which has begun its development in the act of germination.

Nectarial :: Nectarial (a.) Of or pertaining to the nectary of a plant.

Air Vessel :: Air vessel () A vessel, cell, duct, or tube containing or conducting air; as the air vessels of insects, birds, plants, etc.; the air vessel of a pump, engine, etc. For the latter, see Air chamber. The air vessels of insects are called tracheae, of plants spiral vessels..

Convolute :: Convolute (a.) Rolled or wound together, one part upon another; -- said of the leaves of plants in aestivation..

Flaggy :: Flaggy (a.) Abounding with the plant called flag; as, a flaggy marsh..

Agrimony :: Agrimony (n.) The name is also given to various other plants; as, hemp agrimony (Eupatorium cannabinum); water agrimony (Bidens)..

Ixia :: Ixia (n.) A South African bulbous plant of the Iris family, remarkable for the brilliancy of its flowers..

Type :: Type (n.) A general form or structure common to a number of individuals; hence, the ideal representation of a species, genus, or other group, combining the essential characteristics; an animal or plant possessing or exemplifying the essential characteristics of a species, genus, or other group. Also, a group or division of animals having a certain typical or characteristic structure of body maintained within the group..

Fen :: Fen (n.) Low land overflowed, or covered wholly or partially with water, but producing sedge, coarse grasses, or other aquatic plants; boggy land; moor; marsh..

Beer :: Beer (n.) A fermented extract of the roots and other parts of various plants, as spruce, ginger, sassafras, etc..

Frutex :: Frutex (n.) A plant having a woody, durable stem, but less than a tree; a shrub..

Boragewort :: Boragewort (n.) Plant of the Borage family.

Miterwort :: Miterwort (n.) Any plant of the genus Mitella, -- slender, perennial herbs with a pod slightly resembling a bishop's miter; bishop's cap..

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