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Water Willow :: Water willow () An American aquatic plant (Dianthera Americana) with long willowlike leaves, and spikes of small purplish flowers..

Spicula :: Spicula (n.) A little spike; a spikelet.

Jointweed :: "Jointweed (n.) A slender, nearly leafless, American herb (Polygonum articulatum), with jointed spikes of small flowers..

Spiciform :: Spiciform (a.) Spike-shaped.

Locusta :: Locusta (n.) The spikelet or flower cluster of grasses.

Hersillon :: Hersillon (n.) A beam with projecting spikes, used to make a breach impassable..

Pricker :: Pricker (n.) A small marline spike having generally a wooden handle, -- used in sailmaking..

Trifolium :: Trifolium (n.) A genus of leguminous herbs with densely spiked flowers and usually trifoliate leaves; trefoil. There are many species, all of which are called clover. See Clover..

Nard :: Nard (n.) An ointment prepared partly from this plant. See Spikenard.

Stabbingly :: Stabber (n.) A small marline spike; a pricker.

Gad :: Gad (n.) A spike on a gauntlet; a gadling.

Lizard''s Tail :: Lizard's tail () A perennial plant of the genus Saururus (S. cernuus), growing in marshes, and having white flowers crowded in a slender terminal spike, somewhat resembling in form a lizard's tail; whence the name..

Spignet :: Spignet (n.) An aromatic plant of America. See Spikenard.

Xyris :: Xyris (n.) A genus of endogenous herbs with grassy leaves and small yellow flowers in short, scaly-bracted spikes; yellow-eyed grass. There are about seventeen species in the Atlantic United States..

Spike :: Spike (n.) A sort of very large nail; also, a piece of pointed iron set with points upward or outward..

Tamarisk :: Tamarisk (n.) Any shrub or tree of the genus Tamarix, the species of which are European and Asiatic. They have minute scalelike leaves, and small flowers in spikes. An Arabian species (T. mannifera) is the source of one kind of manna..

Spike :: Spike (v. t.) To set or furnish with spikes.

Spikenard :: Spikenard (n.) An aromatic plant. In the United States it is the Aralia racemosa, often called spignet, and used as a medicine. The spikenard of the ancients is the Nardostachys Jatamansi, a native of the Himalayan region. From its blackish roots a perfume for the hair is still prepared in India..

Spikelet :: Spikelet (n.) A small or secondary spike; especially, one of the ultimate parts of the in florescence of grasses. See Illust. of Quaking grass..

Rhachilla :: Rhachilla (n.) A branch of inflorescence; the zigzag axis on which the florets are arranged in the spikelets of grasses.

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