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Sailfish :: Sailfish (n.) The banner fish, or spikefish (Histiophorus.).

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

Terminal :: Terminal (n.) Growing at the end of a branch or stem; terminating; as, a terminal bud, flower, or spike..

Cloy :: Cloy (v. t.) To spike, as a cannon..

Unspike :: Unspike (v. t.) To remove a spike from, as from the vent of a cannon..

Herisson :: Herisson (n.) A beam or bar armed with iron spikes, and turning on a pivot; -- used to block up a passage..

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

Mullein :: Mullein (n.) Any plant of the genus Verbascum. They are tall herbs having coarse leaves, and large flowers in dense spikes. The common species, with densely woolly leaves, is Verbascum Thapsus..

Glume :: Glume (n.) The bracteal covering of the flowers or seeds of grain and grasses; esp., an outer husk or bract of a spikelt..

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..

Umbo :: Umbo (n.) The boss of a shield, at or near the middle, and usually projecting, sometimes in a sharp spike..

Foliaceous :: Foliaceous (a.) Belonging to, or having the texture or nature of, a leaf; having leaves intermixed with flowers; as, a foliaceous spike..

Spicated :: Spicated (a.) Having the form of a spike, or ear; arranged in a spike or spikes..

Plantain :: Plantain (n.) Any plant of the genus Plantago, but especially the P. major, a low herb with broad spreading radical leaves, and slender spikes of minute flowers. It is a native of Europe, but now found near the abode of civilized man in nearly all parts of the world..

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

Water Torch :: Water torch () The common cat-tail (Typha latifolia), the spike of which makes a good torch soaked in oil..

Hatch :: Hatch (n.) A door with an opening over it; a half door, sometimes set with spikes on the upper edge..

Sedge :: Sedge (n.) Any plant of the genus Carex, perennial, endogenous herbs, often growing in dense tufts in marshy places. They have triangular jointless stems, a spiked inflorescence, and long grasslike leaves which are usually rough on the margins and midrib. There are several hundred species..

Rhachis :: Rhachis (n.) The principal axis in a raceme, spike, panicle, or corymb..

Spikenard :: Spikenard (n.) A fragrant essential oil, as that from the Nardostachys Jatamansi..

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