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Yam :: Yam (n.) A large, esculent, farinaceous tuber of various climbing plants of the genus Dioscorea; also, the plants themselves. Mostly natives of warm climates. The plants have netted-veined, petioled leaves, and pods with three broad wings. The commonest species is D. sativa, but several others are cultivated..

Gambier :: Gambier (n.) The inspissated juice of a plant (Uncaria Gambir) growing in Malacca. It is a powerful astringent, and, under the name of Terra Japonica, is used for chewing with the Areca nut, and is exported for tanning and dyeing..

Sophora :: Sophora (n.) A genus of leguminous plants.

Upas :: Upas (n.) A virulent poison used in Java and the adjacent islands for poisoning arrows. One kind, upas antiar, is, derived from upas tree (Antiaris toxicaria). Upas tieute is prepared from a climbing plant (Strychnos Tieute)..

Biology :: Biology (n.) The science of life; that branch of knowledge which treats of living matter as distinct from matter which is not living; the study of living tissue. It has to do with the origin, structure, development, function, and distribution of animals and plants..

Disciflorous :: Disciflorous (a.) Bearing the stamens on a discoid outgrowth of the receptacle; -- said of a subclass of plants. Cf. Calycifloral.

Galactin :: Galactin (n.) An amorphous, gummy carbohydrate resembling gelose, found in the seeds of leguminous plants, and yielding on decomposition several sugars, including galactose..

Mucor :: Mucor (n.) A genus of minute fungi. The plants consist of slender threads with terminal globular sporangia; mold.

Lablab :: Lablab (n.) an East Indian name for several twining leguminous plants related to the bean, but commonly applied to the hyacinth bean (Dolichos Lablab)..

Cavicornia :: Cavicornia (n. pl.) A group of ruminants whose horns are hollow, and planted on a bony process of the front, as the ox..

Xanthorhoea :: Xanthorhoea (n.) A genus of endogenous plants, native to Australia, having a thick, sometimes arborescent, stem, and long grasslike leaves. See Grass tree..

Disposition :: Disposition (n.) Tendency to any action or state resulting from natural constitution; nature; quality; as, a disposition in plants to grow in a direction upward; a disposition in bodies to putrefaction..

Blast :: Blast (n.) A sudden, pernicious effect, as if by a noxious wind, especially on animals and plants; a blight..

Inborn :: Inborn (a.) Born in or with; implanted by nature; innate; as, inborn passions..

Turnip :: Turnip (v. t.) The edible, fleshy, roundish, or somewhat conical, root of a cruciferous plant (Brassica campestris, var. Napus); also, the plant itself..

Amaranth :: Amaranth (n.) A genus of ornamental annual plants (Amaranthus) of many species, with green, purplish, or crimson flowers..

Scorpionwort :: Scorpionwort (n.) A leguminous plant (Ornithopus scorpioides) of Southern Europe, having slender curved pods..

Spurgewort :: Spurge (n.) Any plant of the genus Euphorbia. See Euphorbia.

Articulate :: Articulate (a.) Jointed; formed with joints; consisting of segments united by joints; as, articulate animals or plants..

Sarracenia :: Sarracenia (n.) A genus of American perennial herbs growing in bogs; the American pitcher plant.

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