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Hence, a climbing or trailing plant; the long, slender stem of any plant that trails on the ground, or climbs by winding round a fixed object, or by seizing anything with its tendrils, or claspers; a creeper; as, the hop vine; the bean vine; the vines of melons, squashes, pumpkins, and other cucurbitaceous plants.
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Useful in healing wounds; adapted to the cure of external injuries; as, vulnerary plants or potions.
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Pertaining to, or derived from, plants of the genus Veratrum.
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Having the power or habit of turning or twining; as, the voluble stem of hop plants.
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One of the oil tubes in the fruit of umbelliferous plants.
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Of or pertaining to a natural order of plants, of which the violet is the type. It contains about twenty genera and two hundred and fifty species.
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Any plant or flower of the genus Viola, of many species. The violets are generally low, herbaceous plants, and the flowers of many of the species are blue, while others are white or yellow, or of several colors, as the pansy (Viola tricolor).
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A genus of plants including all true grapevines.
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A genus of herbaceous plants of which several species are extensively cultivated for the great beauty of their flowers; vervain.
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Fine hairs on plants, resembling the pile of velvet.
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An albuminous body, belonging to the class of globulins, obtained from yolk of egg, of which it is the chief proteid constituent, and from the seeds of many plants. From the latter it can be separated in crystalline form.
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Growing, or having the power of growing, as plants; capable of vegetating.
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Producing young in a living state, as most mammals, or as those plants the offspring of which are produced alive, either by bulbs instead of seeds, or by the seeds themselves germinating on the plant, instead of falling, as they usually do; -- opposed to oviparous.
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A genus of aquatic plants named in honor of Queen Victoria. The Victoria regia is a native of Guiana and Brazil. Its large, spreading leaves are often over five feet in diameter, and have a rim from three to five inches high; its immense rose-white flowers sometimes attain a diameter of nearly two feet.
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A genus of polypetalous herbaceous plants, including all kinds of violets.
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A genus scrophulariaceous plants; the speedwell. See Speedwell.
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Covered with growing plants or grass; green; fresh; flourishing; as, verdant fields; a verdant lawn.
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Of or pertaining to a natural order (Verbenaceae) of gamopetalous plants of which Verbena is the type. The order includes also the black and white mangroves, and many plants noted for medicinal use or for beauty of bloom.
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Having the power to produce growth in plants; as, the vegetative properties of soil.
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A name given to several plants which have soft, velvety leaves, as the Abutilon Avicennae, the Cissampelos Pareira, and the Lavatera arborea, and even the common mullein.
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