Air plant
() A plant deriving its sustenance from the air alone |
Ale silver
() A duty payable to the lord mayor of London by the sellers of ale within the city. |
Amber tree
() A species of Anthospermum, a shrub with evergreen leaves, which, when bruised, emit a fragrant odor. |
Apollinaris water
() An effervescing alkaline mineral water used as a table beverage. It is obtained from a spring in Apollinarisburg, near Bonn. |
Bay tree
() A species of laurel. (Laurus nobilis). |
Beam tree
() A tree (Pyrus aria) related to the apple. |
Beech tree
() The beech. |
Blood money
() Money paid to the next of kin of a person who has been killed by another. |
Blood money
() Money obtained as the price, or at the cost, of another's life |
Botanical
(a.) Of or pertaining to botany |
Bo tree
() The peepul tree |
Bully tree
() The name of several West Indian trees of the order Sapotaceae, as Dipholis nigra and species of Sapota and Mimusops. Most of them yield a substance closely resembling gutta-percha. |
Candleberry tree
() A shrub (the Myrica cerifera, or wax-bearing myrtle), common in North America, the little nuts of which are covered with a greenish white wax, which was formerly, used for hardening candles |
Caper tree
() See Capper, a plant, 2. |
Cat-silver
(n.) Mica. |
Common
(v.) Belonging or relating equally, or similarly, to more than one |
Common
(v.) Belonging to or shared by, affecting or serving, all the members of a class, considered together |
Common
(v.) Often met with |
Common
(v.) Not distinguished or exceptional |
Common
(v.) Profane |
Common
(v.) Given to habits of lewdness |
Common
(n.) The people |
Common
(n.) An inclosed or uninclosed tract of ground for pleasure, for pasturage, etc., the use of which belongs to the public |
Common
(n.) The right of taking a profit in the land of another, in common either with the owner or with other persons |
Common
(v. i.) To converse together |
Common
(v. i.) To participate. |
Common
(v. i.) To have a joint right with others in common ground. |
Common
(v. i.) To board together |
Common sense
() See Common sense, under Sense. |
Cow tree
() A tree (Galactodendron utile or Brosimum Galactodendron) of South America, which yields, on incision, a nourishing fluid, resembling milk. |
Crab tree
() See under Crab. |
Dollar
(n.) A silver coin of the United States containing 371.25 grains of silver and 41.25 grains of alloy, that is, having a total weight of 412.5 grains. |
Dollar
(n.) A gold coin of the United States containing 23.22 grains of gold and 2.58 grains of alloy, that is, having a total weight of 25.8 grains, nine-tenths fine. It is no longer coined. |
Dollar
(n.) A coin of the same general weight and value, though differing slightly in different countries, current in Mexico, Canada, parts of South America, also in Spain, and several other European countries. |
Dollar
(n.) The value of a dollar |
Dove plant
() A Central American orchid (Peristeria elata), having a flower stem five or six feet high, with numerous globose white fragrant flowers. The column in the center of the flower resembles a dove |
Fir tree
() See Fir. |
Flax-plant
(n.) A plant in new Zealand (Phormium tenax), allied to the lilies and aloes. The leaves are two inches wide and several feet long, and furnish a fiber which is used for making ropes, mats, and coarse cloth. |
Fresh-water
(a.) Of, pertaining to, or living in, water not salt |
Fresh-water
(a.) Accustomed to sail on fresh water only |
Fresh-water
(a.) Unskilled |
Friendship
(n.) The state of being friends |
Friendship
(n.) Kindly aid |
Friendship
(n.) Aptness to unite |
Galapee tree
() The West Indian Sciadophyllum Brownei, a tree with very large digitate leaves. |
Gatten tree
() A name given to the small trees called guelder-rose (Viburnum Opulus), cornel (Cornus sanguinea), and spindle tree (Euonymus Europaeus). |
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 |
Gourd tree
() A tree (the Crescentia Cujete, or calabash tree) of the West Indies and Central America. |
Grass tree
() An Australian plant of the genus Xanthorrhoea, having a thick trunk crowned with a dense tuft of pendulous, grasslike leaves, from the center of which arises a long stem, bearing at its summit a dense flower spike looking somewhat like a large cat-tail. These plants are often called "blackboys" from the large trunks denuded and blackened by fire. They yield two kinds of fragrant resin, called Botany-bay gum, and Gum Acaroides. |
plant
flora
plant life | (botany) a living organism lacking the power of locomotion |
| lucky dip | a selection or decision purely at random, their system of hiring people seemed to be a sort of lucky dip |
| plant closing | act of shutting down operation of a plant |
water travel
seafaring | travel by water |
water sport
aquatics | sports that involve bodies of water |
| water-skiing | skiing on water while being towed by a motorboat |
| water polo | a game played in a swimming pool by two teams of swimmers who try to throw an inflated ball into the opponents' goal |
| lucky dip | a game in which prizes (e.g., candies or coins) are concealed in a container and for a small sum a player can draw one out at random |
| treading water | a stroke that keeps the head above water by thrashing the legs and arms |
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) |
| waste of money | money spent for inadequate return, the senator said that the project was a waste of money |
| water conservation | the conservation of water resources |
arboriculture
tree farming | the cultivation of tree for the production of timber |
| tree surgery | treatment of damaged or decaying trees |
water development
water project
water program | making an area of water more useful |
arborolatry
tree-worship | the worship of trees |
| money laundering | concealing the source of illegally gotten money |
| form genus | an artificial taxonomic category established on the basis of morphological resemblance for organisms of obscure true relationships especially fossil forms |
| plant virus | a plant pathogen that is a virus consisting of a single strand of RNA |
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 |