12 5 noun
n
noun
• enlargement of bones of hands and feet and face; often accompanied by headache and muscle pain and emotional disturbances; caused by overproduction of growth hormone by the anterior pituitary gland (due to a tumor)
Example sentence • Symptoms of acromegalies include enlargement of hands and feet.
9 3 noun
n
noun
• any of numerous perennials having tuberous roots and long narrow bladelike leaves and usually yellow lily-like flowers that bloom for only a day
Example sentence • I planted several daylilies in my garden this year.
8 3 noun
n
noun
• A small four-stringed guitar.
Example sentence • I bought two ukeleles at the music store.
6 2 noun
n
noun
• a presocratic Greek philosopher and astronomer (who predicted an eclipse in 585 BC) who was said by Aristotle to be the founder of physical science; he held that all things originated in water (624-546 BC)
11 4 noun, adjective
n, adj
noun
• profusely branching and chiefly evergreen trees and some shrubs having narrow or needlelike leaves
Example sentence • The coniferales species of trees are known for their cone-shaped reproductive structures.
13 5 noun
n
noun
• fungi having a zygote or a single cell developing directly into an ascus
11 4 noun, adjective
n, adj
noun
• lower tracheophytes in existence since the Devonian
Example sentence • The equisetales plant is commonly known as the horsetail plant.
11 4 noun
n
noun
• saprophytic and parasitic fungi that live on plants
7 2 noun
n
noun
• an order of dicotyledonous trees of the subclass Hamamelidae
9 3 noun
n
noun
• true (leptosporangiate) ferns
11 3 noun
n
noun
• an order of dicotyledonous plants having gamopetalous flowers; Gentianaceae; Apocynaceae; Asclepiadaceae; Loganiaceae; Oleaceae; Salvadoraceae
8 2 noun
n
noun
• chiefly tropical or xerophytic woody plants; practically unknown as fossils but considered close to the ancestral line of angiosperms
11 3
noun
• coextensive with the family Juglandaceae
9 3 noun
n
noun
• order of mostly saprophytic fungi having cup-shaped ascocarps
9 2 noun
n
noun
• order of fungi comprising the stinkhorns and related forms whose mature hymenium is slimy and fetid; sometimes placed in subclass Homobasidiomycetes
12 4 noun
n
noun
• herbs, shrubs and trees: includes families Ranunculaceae; Annonaceae; Berberidaceae; Magnoliaceae; Menispermaceae; Myristicaceae; Nymphaeaceae; Lardizabalaceae; Lauraceae; Calycanthaceae; Ceratophyllaceae; Cercidiphyllaceae
9 2 noun
n
noun
• an order of dicotyledonous plants, containing the families Elaeagnaceae, Leeaceae, Rhamnaceae, and Vitaceae (Rhamnales)
10 3 noun
n
noun
• order of plants distinguished by having a one-celled inferior ovary; many are parasitic or partly parasitic usually on roots
10 2 noun
n
noun
• coextensive with the genus Sphagnum; in some classifications isolated in a separate subclass
7 2 noun
n
6 1 adverb
adv
verb
• give pleasure to or be pleasing to
Example sentence • Could you please help me carry these bags?
5 1 adjective
adj
pronoun
• The thing, item, etc. being indicated.
Example sentence • I don't like the taste of these cookies.
12 4 noun
n
noun
• simple aquatic fungi mostly saprophytic but some parasitic on higher plants or animals or fresh water fungi; sometimes placed in class Oomycetes
12 4 noun
n
noun
• Myrtaceae; Combretaceae; Elaeagnaceae; Haloragidaceae; Melastomaceae; Lecythidaceae; Lythraceae; Rhizophoraceae; Onagraceae; Lecythidaceae; Punicaceae
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