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Cactus :: Cactus (n.) Any plant of the order Cactacae, as the prickly pear and the night-blooming cereus. See Cereus. They usually have leafless stems and branches, often beset with clustered thorns, and are mostly natives of the warmer parts of America..

Grass Tree :: Grass tree () An Australian plant of the genus Xanthorrhoea, having a thick trunk crowned with a dense tuft of pendulous, grasslike leaves, from the center of which arises a long stem, bearing at its summit a dense flower spike looking somewhat like a large cat-tail. These plants are often called blackboys from the large trunks denuded and blackened by fire. They yield two kinds of fragrant resin, called Botany-bay gum, and Gum Acaroides..

Pendant :: Pendant (n.) The stem and ring of a watch, by which it is suspended..

Rabid :: Rabid (n.) Affected with the distemper called rabies; mad; as, a rabid dog or fox..

Vascular :: Vascular (a.) Operating by means of, or made up of an arrangement of, vessels; as, the vascular system in animals, including the arteries, veins, capillaries, lacteals, etc..

Proselytism :: Proselytism (n.) The act or practice of proselyting; the making of converts to a religion or a religious sect, or to any opinion, system, or party..

Hutchunsonian :: Hutchunsonian (n.) A follower of John Hutchinson of Yorkshire, England, who believed that the Hebrew Scriptures contained a complete system of natural science and of theology..

Hypocarpium :: Hypocarpium (n.) A fleshy enlargement of the receptacle, or for the stem, below the proper fruit, as in the cashew. See Illust. of Cashew..

Proselytize :: Proselytize (v. t.) To convert to some religion, system, opinion, or the like; to bring, or cause to come, over; to proselyte..

Truncheon :: Truncheon (n.) A stout stem, as of a tree, with the branches lopped off, to produce rapid growth..

Myotome :: Myotome (n.) The muscular system of one metamere of an articulate.

Stub :: Stub (n.) The stump of a tree; that part of a tree or plant which remains fixed in the earth when the stem is cut down; -- applied especially to the stump of a small tree, or shrub..

Express :: Express (n.) A messenger sent on a special errand; a courier; hence, a regular and fast conveyance; commonly, a company or system for the prompt and safe transportation of merchandise or parcels; also, a railway train for transporting passengers or goods with speed and punctuality..

Operate :: Operate (v. i.) To produce an appropriate physical effect; to issue in the result designed by nature; especially (Med.), to take appropriate effect on the human system..

Quebec Group :: Quebec group () The middle of the three groups into which the rocks of the Canadian period have been divided in the American Lower Silurian system. See the Chart of Geology.

Footstalk :: Footstalk (n.) The stem which supports which supports the eye in decapod Crustacea; eyestalk.

Druidism :: Druidism (n.) The system of religion, philosophy, and instruction, received and taught by the Druids; the rites and ceremonies of the Druids..

Rootstock :: Rootstock (n.) A perennial underground stem, producing leafly s/ems or flower stems from year to year; a rhizome..

Branch :: Branch (n.) A shoot or secondary stem growing from the main stem, or from a principal limb or bough of a tree or other plant..

Methodism :: Methodism (n.) The system of doctrines, polity, and worship, of the sect called Methodists..

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