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| bamboo |
any of several tropical grasses that have hard, woody, hollow stems and grow to the height of a tree. [1/2 definitions] |
| bark2 |
the outside covering of the trunks, branches, and roots of woody plants. [1/3 definitions] |
| bignonia |
any of various tropical American woody vines that bear trumpet-shaped red or yellow flowers. |
| bilberry |
any of several woody wild or cultivated North American plants that produce edible dark blue berries. [1/2 definitions] |
| bittersweet |
a climbing, woody vine found in North America, bearing orange fruit that splits open when ripe to expose red-coated seeds. [1/5 definitions] |
| boscage |
a mass of woody growth; thicket. |
| 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. |
| bougainvillea |
any of several woody vines of the American tropics that have small inconspicuous flowers surrounded by bright red, orange, or purple bracts. |
| branch |
a woody part that grows out from the main body of a tree or shrub; limb. [1/6 definitions] |
| brier2 |
a white heath of southern Europe, the woody root of which is used in making tobacco pipes. |
| brierroot |
the woody root of the brier or other woods used to make tobacco pipes. [1/2 definitions] |
| brown coal |
a soft dark brown coal having the original woody texture; lignite. |
| buprestid |
any of various long, flat, brightly colored beetles whose larvae eat woody plants. |
| bush1 |
a low plant having many woody branches; shrub. [1/3 definitions] |
| canker |
a diseased area on a woody plant. [1/7 definitions] |
| cone |
the woody, seed-bearing structure of various evergreen trees such as the pine, fir, or hemlock, that has a shape similar to a cone. [1/5 definitions] |
| cork |
in botany, an outer layer of water-resistant cells produced by the phellogen in woody plants; phellem. [1/6 definitions] |
| corncob |
the woody core that bears the kernels in an ear of corn. [1/2 definitions] |
| grape |
a smooth-skinned, juicy, berrylike fruit, either green, red, or purple, that grows in clusters on woody vines, and that is crushed and fermented to make wine. [1/3 definitions] |
| grass tree |
any of several related Australian plants having thick, woody stems and stiff, grasslike leaves, and bearing spikes of white flowers. |
| guayule |
a small woody shrub, with sap from which rubber can be made. [1/2 definitions] |
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