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SPRIG |
Small stem |
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STEMLET |
A small or young stem. |
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SLENDER |
Small or narrow in proportion to the length or the
height; not thick; slim; as, a slender stem or stalk of a plant. |
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BUD |
A small protuberance on the stem or branches of a plant,
containing the rudiments of future leaves, flowers, or stems; an
undeveloped branch or flower. |
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SQUARROSE |
Consisting of scales widely divaricating; having scales,
small leaves, or other bodies, spreading widely from the axis on which
they are crowded; -- said of a calyx or stem. |
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STICK |
A small shoot, or branch, separated, as by a cutting,
from a tree or shrub; also, any stem or branch of a tree, of any size,
cut for fuel or timber. |
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COLLET |
A small metal ring; a small collar fastened on an arbor;
as, the collet on the balance arbor of a watch; a small socket on a
stem, for holding a drill. |
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CATCHFLY |
A plant with the joints of the stem, and sometimes other
parts, covered with a viscid secretion to which small insects adhere.
The species of Silene are examples of the catchfly. |
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CUDWEED |
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 d... |
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STUB |
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. |
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IVY |
... Europe. Its
leaves are evergreen, dark, smooth, shining, and mostly five-pointed;
the flowers yellowish and small; the berries black or yellow.... |
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LENTICEL |
One of the small, oval, rounded spots upon the stem or
branch of a plant, from which the underlying tissues may protrude or
roots may issue, ei... |
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MOSS |
...h distinct
stem and simple leaves. The fruit is a small capsule usually opening by
an apical lid, and so discharging the spores. There are many ... |
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POLE |
A long, slender piece of wood; a tall, slender piece of
timber; the stem of a small tree whose branches have been removed; as,
specifically: (a... |