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Sea Cocoa :: Sea cocoa () A magnificent palm (Lodoicea Sechellarum) found only in the Seychelles Islands. The fruit is an immense two-lobed nut. It was found floating in the Indian Ocean before the tree was known, and called sea cocoanut, and double cocoanut..

Caraway :: Caraway (n.) A biennial plant of the Parsley family (Carum Carui). The seeds have an aromatic smell, and a warm, pungent taste. They are used in cookery and confectionery, and also in medicine as a carminative..

Sarum Use :: Sarum use () A liturgy, or use, put forth about 1087 by St. Osmund, bishop of Sarum, based on Anglo-Saxon and Norman customs..

Cuckoopint :: Cuckoopint (n.) A plant of the genus Arum (A. maculatum); the European wake-robin.

Garous :: Garous (a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, garum..

Aroideous :: Aroideous (a.) Belonging to, or resembling, the Arum family of plants..

Parsley :: Parsley (n.) An aromatic umbelliferous herb (Carum Petroselinum), having finely divided leaves which are used in cookery and as a garnish..

Asarone :: Asarone (n.) A crystallized substance, resembling camphor, obtained from the Asarum Europaeum; -- called also camphor of asarum..

Asarabacca :: Asarabacca (n.) An acrid herbaceous plant (Asarum Europaeum), the leaves and roots of which are emetic and cathartic. It is principally used in cephalic snuffs..

Use :: Use (v. t.) The special form of ritual adopted for use in any diocese; as, the Sarum, or Canterbury, use; the Hereford use; the York use; the Roman use; etc..

Yamp :: Yamp (n.) An umbelliferous plant (Carum Gairdneri); also, its small fleshy roots, which are eaten by the Indians from Idaho to California..

Alarm :: Alarm (n.) A mechanical contrivance for awaking persons from sleep, or rousing their attention; an alarum..

Carvacrol :: Carvacrol (n.) A thick oily liquid, C10H13.OH, of a strong taste and disagreeable odor, obtained from oil of caraway (Carum carui)..

Skirret :: Skirret (n.) An umbelliferous plant (Sium, / Pimpinella, Sisarum). It is a native of Asia, but has been long cultivated in Europe for its edible clustered tuberous roots, which are very sweet..

Boxthorn :: Boxthorn (n.) A plant of the genus Lycium, esp. Lycium barbarum..

Harum-scarum :: Harum-scarum (v. t.) Wild; giddy; flighty; rash; thoughtless.

Lycine :: Lycine (n.) A weak base identical with betaine; -- so called because found in the boxthorn (Lycium barbarum). See Betaine.

Grugru Worm :: Grugru worm () The larva or grub of a large South American beetle (Calandra palmarum), which lives in the pith of palm trees and sugar cane. It is eaten by the natives, and esteemed a delicacy..

Water Arum :: Water arum () An aroid herb (Calla palustris) having a white spathe. It is an inhabitant of the north temperate zone.

Lords And Ladies :: Lords and Ladies () The European wake-robin (Arum maculatum), -- those with purplish spadix the lords, and those with pale spadix the ladies..

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