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THESPESIA |
Large-leafed plant |
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RHUBARB |
Large-leafed plant |
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TREE |
Large plant |
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STEGOSAURS |
Large plant-eating dinosaurs |
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ELEPHANT |
Large plant-eating mammal |
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MANATEES |
Large plant-eating mammals |
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SAFFRON |
A bulbous iridaceous plant (Crocus sativus) having blue
flowers with large yellow stigmas. See Crocus. |
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WATER DROPWORT |
A European poisonous umbelliferous plant (Enanthe
fistulosa) with large hollow stems and finely divided leaves. |
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CARDOON |
A large herbaceous plant (Cynara Cardunculus) related to
the artichoke; -- used in cookery and as a salad. |
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JACOBAEAN LILY |
A bulbous plant (Amaryllis, / Sprekelia,
formosissima) from Mexico. It bears a single, large, deep, red,
lilylike flower. |
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NONDO |
A coarse umbelliferous plant (Ligusticum actaeifolium) with
a large aromatic root. It is found chiefly in the Alleghany region.
Also called Angelico. |
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WATER LILY |
A blossom or plant of any species of the genus Nymphaea,
distinguished for its large floating leaves and beautiful flowers. See
Nymphaea. |
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ZINNIA |
Any plant of the composite genus Zinnia, Mexican herbs with
opposite leaves and large gay-colored blossoms. Zinnia elegans is the
commonest species in cultivation. |
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EGGPLANT |
A plant (Solanum Melongena), of East Indian origin,
allied to the tomato, and bearing a large, smooth, edible fruit, shaped
somewhat like an egg; mad-apple. |
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DANDELION |
A well-known plant of the genus Taraxacum (T.
officinale, formerly called T. Dens-leonis and Leontodos Taraxacum)
bearing large, yellow, compound flowers, and deeply notched leaves. |
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SEA CHICKWEED |
A fleshy plant (Arenaria peploides) growing in large
tufts in the sands of the northern Atlantic seacoast; -- called also
sea sandwort, and sea purslane. |
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SOUARI NUT |
The large edible nutlike seed of a tall tropical American
tree (Caryocar nuciferum) of the same natural order with the tea plant;
-- also called butternut. |
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ASAFOETIDA |
The fetid gum resin or inspissated juice of a large
umbelliferous plant (Ferula asafoetida) of Persia and the East Indies.
It is used in medicine as an antispasmodic. |
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RYE |
A grain yielded by a hardy cereal grass (Secale cereale),
closely allied to wheat; also, the plant itself. Rye constitutes a
large portion of the breadstuff used by man. |
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MULLEIN |
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. |
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ENLARGE |
To grow large or larger; to be further extended; to
expand; as, a plant enlarges by growth; an estate enlarges by good
management; a volume of air enlarges by rarefaction. |
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FLOWER-DE-LUCE |
A genus of perennial herbs (Iris) with swordlike
leaves and large three-petaled flowers often of very gay colors, but
probably white in the plant first chosen for the royal French emblem. |
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MAIZE |
A large species of American grass of the genus Zea (Z.
Mays), widely cultivated as a forage and food plant; Indian corn. Also,
its seed, growing on cobs, and used as food for men animals. |
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RICINUS |
...g but one
species (R. communis), the castor-oil plant. The fruit is three-celled,
and contains three large seeds from which castor oil iss expre... |
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PANSY |
...blossom,
originally purple and yellow. Cultivated varieties have very large
flowers of a great diversity of colors. Called also heart's-ease,
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