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Staving :: Stavewood (n.) A tall tree (Simaruba amara) growing in tropical America. It is one of the trees which yields quassia.

Madder :: Madder (n.) A plant of the Rubia (R. tinctorum). The root is much used in dyeing red, and formerly was used in medicine. It is cultivated in France and Holland. See Rubiaceous..

Heath :: Heath (n.) A place overgrown with heath; any cheerless tract of country overgrown with shrubs or coarse herbage.

Shrubbery :: Shrubbery (n.) A collection of shrubs.

Snakewood :: Snakewood (n.) An East Indian climbing shrub (Ophioxylon serpentinum) which has the roots and stems twisted so as to resemble serpents.

Imperial :: Imperial (n.) A gold coin of Russia worth ten rubles, or about eight dollars..

Rubianic :: Rubianic (a.) pertaining to, or derived from, rubian; specifically, designating an acid called also ruberythrinic acid..

Natal Plum :: Natal plum () The drupaceous fruit of two South African shrubs of the genus Arduina (A. bispinosa and A. grandiflora).

Gelt :: Gelt (n.) Trubute, tax..

Rub :: Rub (n.) Imperfection; failing; fault.

Rhamnus :: Rhamnus (n.) A genus of shrubs and small trees; buckthorn. The California Rhamnus Purshianus and the European R. catharticus are used in medicine. The latter is used for hedges.

Grubbed :: Grubbed (imp. & p. p.) of Gru.

Pyracanth :: Pyracanth (n.) The evergreen thorn (Crataegus Pyracantha), a shrub native of Europe..

Privet :: Privet (n.) An ornamental European shrub (Ligustrum vulgare), much used in hedges; -- called also prim..

Rubiaceous :: Rubiaceous (a.) Of or pertaining to a very large natural order of plants (Rubiaceae) named after the madder (Rubia tinctoria), and including about three hundred and seventy genera and over four thousand species. Among them are the coffee tree, the trees yielding peruvian bark and quinine, the madder, the quaker ladies, and the trees bearing the edible fruits called genipap and Sierre Leone peach, besides many plants noted for the beauty or the fragrance of their blossoms..

Conifer :: Conifer (n.) A tree or shrub bearing cones; one of the order Coniferae, which includes the pine, cypress, and (according to some) the yew..

Alder :: Alder (n.) A tree, usually growing in moist land, and belonging to the genus Alnus. The wood is used by turners, etc.; the bark by dyers and tanners. In the U. S. the species of alder are usually shrubs or small trees..

Ruby :: Ruby (n.) A precious stone of a carmine red color, sometimes verging to violet, or intermediate between carmine and hyacinth red. It is a red crystallized variety of corundum..

Rase :: Rase (v. t.) To rub along the surface of; to graze.

Trade :: Trade (v.) Refuse or rubbish from a mine.

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