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Climate :: Climate (v. i.) The condition of a place in relation to various phenomena of the atmosphere, as temperature, moisture, etc., especially as they affect animal or vegetable life..

Camp :: Camp (n.) A mound of earth in which potatoes and other vegetables are stored for protection against frost; -- called also burrow and pie.

Flesh :: Flesh (n.) Animal food, in distinction from vegetable; meat; especially, the body of beasts and birds used as food, as distinguished from fish..

Humic :: Humic (a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, vegetable mold; as, humic acid. See Humin..

Phanerogamia :: Phanerogamia (n. pl.) That one of the two primary divisions of the vegetable kingdom which contains the phanerogamic, or flowering, plants..

Sebiferous :: Sebiferous (a.) Producing vegetable tallow.

Potpourri :: Potpourri (n.) A ragout composed of different sorts of meats, vegetables, etc., cooked together..

Pitted :: Pitted (v. t.) Having minute thin spots; as, pitted ducts in the vascular parts of vegetable tissue..

Holophytic :: Holophytic (a.) Wholly or distinctively vegetable.

Burn :: Burn (n.) A disease in vegetables. See Brand, n., 6..

Development :: Development (n.) The series of changes which animal and vegetable organisms undergo in their passage from the embryonic state to maturity, from a lower to a higher state of organization..

Vegetive :: Vegetive (a.) Having the nature of a plant; vegetable; as, vegetive life..

Flavin :: Flavin (n.) A yellow, vegetable dyestuff, resembling quercitron..

Conhydrine :: Conhydrine (n.) A vegetable alkaloid found with conine in the poison hemlock (Conium maculatum). It is a white crystalline substance, C8H17NO, easily convertible into conine..

Equilibration :: Equilibration (n.) The process by which animal and vegetable organisms preserve a physiological balance.

Salad :: Salad (n.) A dish composed of chopped meat or fish, esp. chicken or lobster, mixed with lettuce or other vegetables, and seasoned with oil, vinegar, mustard, and other condiments; as, chicken salad; lobster salad..

Greengrocer :: Greengrocer (n.) A retailer of vegetables or fruits in their fresh or green state.

Laver :: Laver (n.) The fronds of certain marine algae used as food, and for making a sauce called laver sauce. Green laver is the Ulva latissima; purple laver, Porphyra laciniata and P. vulgaris. It is prepared by stewing, either alone or with other vegetables, and with various condiments; -- called also sloke, or sloakan..

Monopodium :: Monopodium (n.) A single and continuous vegetable axis; -- opposed to sympodium.

Histology :: Histology (n.) That branch of biological science, which treats of the minute (microscopic) structure of animal and vegetable tissues; -- called also histiology..

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