| adder's-tongue |
any of various ferns with a single sporeless leaflike frond and a slender spore-bearing spike or stalk that suggests a snake's tongue. [1/2 definitions] |
| afferent |
bearing or leading toward a central organ or part, as nerves that conduct impulses to the spinal column or as veins that carry blood to the heart. |
| air |
the peculiar character, manner, bearing, or aspect of a person or thing. [1/8 definitions] |
| amaranth |
a plant having coarse leaves and bearing purple, green, or red clusters of small flowers, often grown as a food crop. [1/3 definitions] |
| amaryllis |
any of a group of bulbous plants bearing a lilylike rose-colored blossom. |
| apocarpous |
having distinctly separate seed-bearing organs, as the strawberry. |
| araucaria |
a cone-bearing evergreen native to the Southern Hemisphere and grown as an ornamental elsewhere. |
| arbutus |
an evergreen tree or shrub of the heath family having broad dark green leaves and bearing clusters of pink or white flowers and small strawberrylike fruit. [2 definitions] |
| areca |
any of several tall palm trees of tropical Asia, such as the betel palm, having a smooth, slender trunk and feathery leaves and bearing red or orange nuts. [1/2 definitions] |
| aristocrat |
one who has the manners, tastes, bearing, or the like of such a class. [1/3 definitions] |
| armed |
holding or bearing weapons. [1/4 definitions] |
| arum |
any of a family of plants, such as jack-in-the-pulpit, with arrow-shaped leaves and bearing a flower, at the tip of a long spike, that is enclosed by a hoodlike leaf. [1/2 definitions] |
| asphodel |
any of several flowering plants related to lilies, with tall spikes bearing clusters of usu. yellow or white flowers. |
| auriferous |
having gold as a component; gold-bearing. |
| bald cypress |
a cone-bearing tree that grows in the swamps of the southeastern United States, the wood of which is used in construction and shipbuilding. |
| ball bearing |
a bearing composed of a track containing freely rolling metal balls, against which or within which a shaft or other part can rotate without friction. [2 definitions] |
| barley |
a cereal plant bearing bristled grains on densely packed spikes. [1/2 definitions] |
| barren |
incapable of conceiving and bearing young; sterile. [1/5 definitions] |
| bean |
any of various types of leguminous or bean-bearing plants. [1/5 definitions] |
| begonia |
a tropical plant of which some species are cultivated as houseplants, bearing bright, waxy flowers of various colors and having leaves that are often varicolored or veined. |
| belladonna |
a poisonous plant bearing purplish red flowers and black berries; deadly nightshade. [1/2 definitions] |