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| adherent |
in botany, growing or having grown together. [1/3 definitions] |
| adult |
having grown up. [1/2 definitions] |
| adulthood |
the part of life when a person is grown up; the adult years. |
| alfalfa |
a plant with purple flowers that is grown as food for cattle and horses. Alfalfa is a member of the legume family of plants. |
| 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] |
| Arab League |
a confederation of nations sharing a common Arabic language and culture, formed in 1945 to promote economic, military, and political cooperation among its members, and now grown to a total of twenty-one. |
| araucaria |
a cone-bearing evergreen native to the Southern Hemisphere and grown as an ornamental elsewhere. |
| arboretum |
a place where trees are grown for scientific study and display. |
| arborvitae |
any of various evergreens having small cones and leaves of closely overlapping scales, often grown as an ornamental shrub or tree. |
| aubergine |
the British word for eggplant, a plant grown for its dark purple, oval fruit. Aubergine is eaten as a vegetable. |
| Baldwin |
a moderately tangy winter apple grown in the northeastern United States. |
| bass3 |
a deciduous tree of softwood, which is grown for ornamental purposes or as a shade tree; basswood; linden. |
| Bermuda grass |
a perennial creeping grass widely grown for lawns and pastures in Bermuda, the southern United States, and other warm regions. |
| Bermuda onion |
any of several large mild-flavored onions with a white or yellow flesh, grown in Bermuda and the southern United States. |
| big |
older; more grown-up. [1/3 definitions] |
| bluegrass |
a grass with a blue-green color that is grown in pastures and on lawns. Kentucky is famous for bluegrass. [1/2 definitions] |
| Boston ivy |
a woody climbing vine of Asian origin, commonly grown in the United States as an exterior wall cover, that has three-lobed leaves and bears purple berries. |
| buck1 |
a fully grown male of certain animal species such as the deer, goat, rabbit, and sheep. [1/3 definitions] |
| bullock |
a bull that is not yet fully grown. [1/2 definitions] |
| burley |
(often cap.) a low-nicotine, light-colored tobacco grown chiefly in Kentucky. |
| caladium |
any of various American tropical plants of the arum family that are grown for their colorful variegated leaves. |
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