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Homogamous :: Homogamous (a.) Having all the flowers alike; -- said of such composite plants as Eupatorium, and the thistels..

Eupatorium :: Eupatorium (n.) A genus of perennial, composite herbs including hemp agrimony, boneset, throughwort, etc..

Solidago :: Solidago (n.) A genus of yellow-flowered composite perennial herbs; golden-rod.

Lettuce :: Lettuce (n.) A composite plant of the genus Lactuca (L. sativa), the leaves of which are used as salad. Plants of this genus yield a milky juice, from which lactucarium is obtained. The commonest wild lettuce of the United States is L. Canadensis..

Lactuca :: Lactuca (n.) A genus of composite herbs, several of which are cultivated foe salad; lettuce..

Monocephalous :: Monocephalous (a.) Having a solitary head; -- said of unbranched composite plants.

Cudweed :: Cudweed (n.) A small composite plant with cottony or silky stem and leaves, primarily a species of Gnaphalium, but the name is now given to many plants of different genera, as Filago, Antennaria, etc.; cottonweed..

Safflower :: Safflower (n.) An annual composite plant (Carthamus tinctorius), the flowers of which are used as a dyestuff and in making rouge; bastard, or false, saffron..

Composite :: Composite (n.) That which is made up of parts or compounded of several elements; composition; combination; compound.

Acanthus :: Acanthus (n.) An ornament resembling the foliage or leaves of the acanthus (Acanthus spinosus); -- used in the capitals of the Corinthian and Composite orders.

Cherub :: Cherub (n.) A mysterious composite being, the winged footstool and chariot of the Almighty, described in Ezekiel i. and x..

Inulin :: Inulin (n.) A substance of very wide occurrence. It is found dissolved in the sap of the roots and rhizomes of many composite and other plants, as Inula, Helianthus, Campanula, etc., and is extracted by solution as a tasteless, white, semicrystalline substance, resembling starch, with which it is isomeric. It is intermediate in nature between starch and sugar. Called also dahlin, helenin, alantin, etc..

Ironheads :: Ironheads (n.) A European composite herb (Centaurea nigra); -- so called from the resemblance of its knobbed head to an iron ball fixed on a long handle.

Incomposite :: Incomposite (a.) Not composite; uncompounded; simple.

Zooid :: Zooid (n.) One of the individual animals in a composite group, as of Anthozoa, Hydroidea, and Bryozoa; -- sometimes restricted to those individuals in which the mouth and digestive organs are not developed..

Cichoraceous :: Cichoraceous (a.) Belonging to, or resembling, a suborder of composite plants of which the chicory (Cichorium) is the type..

Butterweed :: Butterweed (n.) An annual composite plant of the Mississippi valley (Senecio lobatus).

Foveolate :: Foveolate (a.) Having small pits or depression, as the receptacle in some composite flowers..

Counterpoint :: Counterpoint (n.) The art of polyphony, or composite melody, i. e., melody not single, but moving attended by one or more related melodies..

Thimbleweed :: Thimbleweed (n.) Any plant of the composite genus Rudbeckia, coarse herbs somewhat resembling the sunflower; -- so called from their conical receptacles..

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