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Xyris :: Xyris (n.) A genus of endogenous herbs with grassy leaves and small yellow flowers in short, scaly-bracted spikes; yellow-eyed grass. There are about seventeen species in the Atlantic United States..

Nard :: Nard (n.) An ointment prepared partly from this plant. See Spikenard.

Lavender :: Lavender (n.) An aromatic plant of the genus Lavandula (L. vera), common in the south of Europe. It yields and oil used in medicine and perfumery. The Spike lavender (L. Spica) yields a coarser oil (oil of spike), used in the arts..

Cockscomb :: Cockscomb (n.) A plant (Celosia cristata), of many varieties, cultivated for its broad, fantastic spikes of brilliant flowers; -- sometimes called garden cockscomb. Also the Pedicularis, or lousewort, the Rhinanthus Crista-galli, and the Onobrychis Crista-galli..

Plantain :: Plantain (n.) Any plant of the genus Plantago, but especially the P. major, a low herb with broad spreading radical leaves, and slender spikes of minute flowers. It is a native of Europe, but now found near the abode of civilized man in nearly all parts of the world..

Lion''s Tail :: Lion's tail () A genus of labiate plants (Leonurus); -- so called from a fancied resemblance of its flower spikes to the tuft of a lion's tail. L. Cardiaca is the common motherwort.

Herisson :: Herisson (n.) A beam or bar armed with iron spikes, and turning on a pivot; -- used to block up a passage..

Cheval-de-frise :: Cheval-de-frise (n.) A piece of timber or an iron barrel traversed with iron-pointed spikes or spears, five or six feet long, used to defend a passage, stop a breach, or impede the advance of cavalry, etc..

Spiciferous :: Spiciferous (a.) Bearing ears, or spikes; spicate..

Spica :: Spica (n.) A kind of bandage passing, by successive turns and crosses, from an extremity to the trunk; -- so called from its resemblance to a spike of a barley..

Fumitory :: Fumitory (n.) The common uame of several species of the genus Fumaria, annual herbs of the Old World, with finely dissected leaves and small flowers in dense racemes or spikes. F. officinalis is a common species, and was formerly used as an antiscorbutic..

Pricker :: Pricker (n.) A small marline spike having generally a wooden handle, -- used in sailmaking..

Lizard''s Tail :: Lizard's tail () A perennial plant of the genus Saururus (S. cernuus), growing in marshes, and having white flowers crowded in a slender terminal spike, somewhat resembling in form a lizard's tail; whence the name..

Terminal :: Terminal (n.) Growing at the end of a branch or stem; terminating; as, a terminal bud, flower, or spike..

Willow :: Willow (n.) A machine in which cotton or wool is opened and cleansed by the action of long spikes projecting from a drum which revolves within a box studded with similar spikes; -- probably so called from having been originally a cylindrical cage made of willow rods, though some derive the term from winnow, as denoting the winnowing, or cleansing, action of the machine. Called also willy, twilly, twilly devil, and devil..

Spicose :: Spicose (a.) Having spikes, or ears, like corn spikes..

Spikebill :: Spikebill (n.) The hooded merganser.

Aspic :: Aspic (n.) A European species of lavender (Lavandula spica), which produces a volatile oil. See Spike..

Cloy :: Cloy (v. t.) To spike, as a cannon..

Tine :: Tine (n.) A tooth, or spike, as of a fork; a prong, as of an antler..

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