Adder's-tongue (n.) A genus of ferns (Ophioglossum), whose seeds are produced on a spike resembling a serpent's tongue. |
Adder's-tongue (n.) The yellow dogtooth violet. |
Arum (n.) A genus of plants found in central Europe and about the Mediterranean, having flowers on a spadix inclosed in a spathe. The cuckoopint of the English is an example. |
Bird's-tongue (n.) The knotgrass (Polygonum aviculare). |
Black snake (n.) Alt. of Blacksnake |
Botanical (a.) Of or pertaining to botany |
Coachwhip snake () A large, slender, harmless snake of the southern United States (Masticophis flagelliformis). |
Coco palm () See Cocoa. |
Cocoa palm () A palm tree producing the cocoanut (Cocos nucifera). It grows in nearly all tropical countries, attaining a height of sixty or eighty feet. The trunk is without branches, and has a tuft of leaves at the top, each being fifteen or twenty feet in length, and at the base of these the nuts hang in clusters |
Congo snake () An amphibian (Amphiuma means) of the order Urodela, found in the southern United States. See Amphiuma. |
Day lily () A genus of plants (Hemerocallis) closely resembling true lilies, but having tuberous rootstocks instead of bulbs. The common species have long narrow leaves and either yellow or tawny-orange flowers. |
Day lily () A genus of plants (Funkia) differing from the last in having ovate veiny leaves, and large white or blue flowers. |
Deer's-tongue (n.) A plant (Liatris odoratissima) whose fleshy leaves give out a fragrance compared to vanilla. |
Dog's-tongue (n.) Hound's-tongue. |
Doom palm () A species of palm tree (Hyphaene Thebaica), highly valued for the fibrous pulp of its fruit, which has the flavor of gingerbread, and is largely eaten in Egypt and Abyssinia. |
Double-tongue (n.) Deceit |
Doum palm () See Doom palm. |
Earth-tongue (n.) A fungus of the genus Geoglossum. |
Fan palm () Any palm tree having fan-shaped or radiate leaves |
Genus (n.) A class of objects divided into several subordinate species |
Genus (n.) An assemblage of species, having so many fundamental points of structure in common, that in the judgment of competent scientists, they may receive a common substantive name. A genus is not necessarily the lowest definable group of species, for it may often be divided into several subgenera. In proportion as its definition is exact, it is natural genus |
Glass-snake (n.) A long, footless lizard (Ophiosaurus ventralis), of the Southern United States |
Grugru palm () A West Indian name for several kinds of palm. See Macaw tree, under Macaw. |
Guernsey lily () A South African plant (Nerine Sarniensis) with handsome lilylike flowers, naturalized on the island of Guernsey. |
Hart-tongue (n.) A common British fern (Scolopendrium vulgare), rare in America. |
Hart-tongue (n.) A West Indian fern, the Polypodium Phyllitidis of Linnaeus. It is also found in Florida. |
Hound's-tongue (n.) A biennial weed (Cynoglossum officinale), with soft tongue-shaped leaves, and an offensive odor. It bears nutlets covered with barbed or hooked prickles. Called also dog's-tongue. |
Ita palm () A magnificent species of palm (Mauritia flexuosa), growing near the Orinoco. The natives eat its fruit and buds, drink its sap, and make thread and cord from its fiber. |
Jacobaean lily () A bulbous plant (Amaryllis, / Sprekelia, formosissima) from Mexico. It bears a single, large, deep, red, lilylike flower. |
Jagua palm () A great Brazilian palm (Maximiliana regia), having immense spathes which are used for baskets and tubs. |
Jupati palm () A great Brazilian palm tree (Raphia taedigera), used by the natives for many purposes. |
Lily (n.) A plant and flower of the genus Lilium, endogenous bulbous plants, having a regular perianth of six colored pieces, six stamens, and a superior three-celled ovary. |
Lily (n.) A name given to handsome flowering plants of several genera, having some resemblance in color or form to a true lily, as Pancratium, Crinum, Amaryllis, Nerine, etc. |
Lily (n.) That end of a compass needle which should point to the north |
Lily-handed (a.) Having white, delicate hands. |
Lily-livered (a.) White-livered |
Long-tongue (n.) The wryneck. |
Mariposa lily () One of a genus (Calochortus) of tuliplike bulbous herbs with large, and often gaycolored, blossoms. Called also butterfly lily. Most of them are natives of California. |
Palm (n.) The inner and somewhat concave part of the hand between the bases of the fingers and the wrist. |
Palm (n.) A lineal measure equal either to the breadth of the hand or to its length from the wrist to the ends of the fingers |
Palm (n.) A metallic disk, attached to a strap, and worn the palm of the hand, -- used to push the needle through the canvas, in sewing sails, etc. |
Palm (n.) The broad flattened part of an antler, as of a full-grown fallow deer |
Palm (n.) The flat inner face of an anchor fluke. |
Palm (n.) Any endogenous tree of the order Palmae or Palmaceae |
Palm (n.) A branch or leaf of the palm, anciently borne or worn as a symbol of victory or rejoicing. |
Palm (n.) Any symbol or token of superiority, success, or triumph |
Palm (v. t.) To handle. |
Palm (v. t.) To manipulate with, or conceal in, the palm of the hand |
Palm (v. t.) To impose by fraud, as by sleight of hand |
Palm Sunday () The Sunday next before Easter |
umbrella | having the function of uniting a group of similar things, the Democratic Party is an umbrella for many liberal groups, under the umbrella of capitalism |
snake dance | a ceremonial dance (as by the Hopi) in which snakes are handled or invoked |
phytotherapy herbal therapy botanical medicine | the use of plants or plant extracts for medicinal purposes (especially plants that are not part of the normal diet) |
umbrella | a formation of military planes maintained over ground operations or targets, an air umbrella over England |
form genus | an artificial taxonomic category established on the basis of morphological resemblance for organisms of obscure true relationships especially fossil forms |
Heliobacter genus Heliobacter | a genus of helical or curved or straight aerobic bacteria with rounded ends and multiple flagella, found in the gastric mucosa of primates (including humans) |
bacteria genus | a genus of bacteria |
Aerobacter genus Aerobacter | aerobic bacteria widely distributed in nature |
Rhizobium genus Rhizobium | the type genus of Rhizobiaceae, usually occur in the root nodules of legumes, can fix atmospheric oxygen |
Agrobacterium genus Agrobacterium | small motile bacterial rods that can reduce nitrates and cause galls on plant stems |
genus Bacillus | type genus of the Bacillaceae, includes many saprophytes important in decay of organic matter and a number of parasites |
genus Clostridium | anaerobic or micro-aerophilic rod-shaped or spindle-shaped saprophytes, nearly cosmopolitan in soil, animal intestines, and dung |
genus Nostoc | type genus of the family Nostocaceae: freshwater blue-green algae |
genus Trichodesmium | a genus of blue-green algae |
Pseudomonas genus Pseudomonas | type genus of the family Pseudomonodaceae |
Xanthomonas genus Xanthomonas | a genus of bacteria similar to Pseudomonas but producing a yellow pigment that is not soluble in water |
Nitrobacter genus Nitrobacter | rod-shaped soil bacteria |
Nitrosomonas genus Nitrosomonas | ellipsoidal soil bacteria |
genus Thiobacillus | a genus of bacteria |
genus Spirillum | a genus of bacteria |
genus Vibrio | a genus of bacteria |
Bacteroides genus Bacteroides | type genus of Bacteroidaceae, genus of Gram-negative rodlike anaerobic bacteria producing no endospores and no pigment and living in the gut of man and animals |
Calymmatobacterium genus Calymmatobacterium | a genus of bacterial rods containing only the one species that causes granuloma inguinale |
Francisella genus Francisella | a genus of Gram-negative aerobic bacteria that occur as pathogens and parasite in many animals (including humans) |
genus Corynebacterium | the type genus of the family Corynebacteriaceae which is widely distributed in nature, the best known are parasites and pathogens of humans and domestic animals |
genus Listeria | a genus of aerobic motile bacteria of the family Corynebacteriaceae containing small Gram-positive rods |
genus Escherichia | a genus of bacteria |
genus Klebsiella | a genus of bacteria |
genus Salmonella | a genus of bacteria |
genus Serratia Serratia | a genus of motile peritrichous bacteria that contain small Gram-negative rod |
genus Shigella | a genus of bacteria |
genus Erwinia | a genus of bacteria |
genus Rickettsia | can cause typhus and Rocky Mountain spotted fever in humans |
genus Chlamydia | type genus of the family Chlamydiaceae: diseaseausing parasites |
genus Mycoplasma | type and sole genus of the family Mycoplasmataceae |
genus Actinomyces | type genus of the family Actinomycetaceae |
genus Streptomyces | type genus of the family Streptomycetaceae |
genus Mycobacterium | nonmotile Gram-positive aerobic bacteria |
Polyangium genus Polyangium | type genus of the family Polyangiaceae: myxobacteria with rounded fruiting bodies enclosed in a membrane |
Micrococcus genus Micrococcus | type genus of the family Micrococcaceae |
genus Staphylococcus | includes many pathogenic species |
genus Lactobacillus | type genus of the family Lactobacillaceae |
genus Diplococcus | a genus of bacteria |
genus Streptococcus | a genus of bacteria |
Spirochaeta genus Spirochaeta | the type genus of the family Spirochaetaceae, a bacterium that is flexible, undulating, and chiefly aquatic |
genus Treponema | type genus of Treponemataceae: anaerobic spirochetes with an undulating rigid body, parasitic in warm-blooded animals |
genus Borrelia | small flexible parasitic spirochetes having three to five wavy spirals |
genus Leptospira | very slender aerobic spirochetes, free-living or parasitic in mammals |
protoctist genus | any genus of Protoctista |
genus Amoeba | protozoan inhabiting moist soils or bottom vegetation in fresh or salt water |