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SHRUB |
Low plant |
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UNDERSHRIEVE |
A low shrub; a woody plant of low stature. |
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SANDWORT |
Any plant of the genus Arenaria, low, tufted herbs (order
Caryophyllaceae.) |
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SOLDANEL |
A plant of the genus Soldanella, low Alpine herbs of the
Primrose family. |
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SEA HEATH |
A low perennial plant (Frankenia laevis) resembling heath,
growing along the seashore in Europe. |
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GERMANDER |
A plant of the genus Teucrium (esp. Teucrium Chamaedrys
or wall germander), mintlike herbs and low shrubs. |
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SPEEDWELL |
Any plant of the genus Veronica, mostly low herbs with
pale blue corollas, which quickly fall off. |
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PINWEED |
Any plant of the genus Lechea, low North American herbs
with branching stems, and very small and abundant leaves and flowers. |
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VENTRAL |
Of or pertaining to the lower side or surface of a
creeping moss or other low flowerless plant. Opposed to dorsal. |
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YAW-WEED |
A low, shrubby, rubiaceous plant (Morinda Royoc) growing
along the seacoast of the West Indies. It has small, white, odorous
flowers. |
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ZILLA |
A low, thorny, suffrutescent, crucifeous plant (Zilla
myagroides) found in the deserts of Egypt. Its leaves are boiled in
water, and eaten, by the Arabs. |
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PIXIE |
A low creeping evergreen plant (Pyxidanthera barbulata),
with mosslike leaves and little white blossoms, found in New Jersey and
southward, where it flowers in earliest spring. |
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STONECROP |
Any low succulent plant of the genus Sedum, esp. Sedum
acre, which is common on bare rocks in Europe, and is spreading in
parts of America. See Orpine. |
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MIGNONETTE |
A plant (Reseda odorata) having greenish flowers with
orange-colored stamens, and exhaling a delicious fragrance. In Africa
it is a low shrub, but further north it is usually an annual herb. |
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PIPSISSEWA |
A low evergreen plant (Chimaphila umbellata), with
narrow, wedge-lanceolate leaves, and an umbel of pretty nodding
fragrant blossoms. It has be... |
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ORPINE |
A low plant with fleshy leaves (Sedum telephium), having
clusters of purple flowers. It is found on dry, sandy places, and on
old walls, in Eng... |
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BROOM |
...o sweep
with when bound together; esp., the Cytisus scoparius of Western
Europe, which is a low shrub with long, straight, green, angular
bra... |
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BLACKBERRY |
...also,
the plant itself. Rubus fruticosus is the blackberry of England; R.
villosus and R. Canadensis are the high blackberry and low blackberry
... |
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RICE |
...he inhabitants. In America it grows
chiefly on low, moist land, which can be overflowed. ... |
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VIOLET |
Any plant or flower of the genus Viola, of many species.
The violets are generally low, herbaceous plants, and the flowers of
many of the speci... |
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PLANTAIN |
Any plant of the genus Plantago, but especially the P.
major, a low herb with broad spreading radical leaves, and slender
spikes of minute flow... |
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BUTTERWORT |
A genus of low herbs (Pinguicula) having simple leaves
which secrete from their glandular upper surface a viscid fluid, to
which insects adhere... |
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CRANBERRY |
...um (V. Opulus), and the other is sometimes called low cranberry
or marsh cranberry to distinguish it. ... |
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SUNDEW |
Any plant of the genus Drosera, low bog plants whose leaves
are beset with pediceled glands which secrete a viscid fluid that
glitters like dew... |
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MANDRAKE |
A low plant (Mandragora officinarum) of the Nightshade
family, having a fleshy root, often forked, and supposed to resemble a
man. It was there... |