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large-toothed aspen |
Noun
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aspen with a narrow crown |
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large tooth aspen |
Noun
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aspen with a narrow crown |
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low gallberry holly |
Noun
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an evergreen shrub |
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longan |
Noun
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tree of southeastern Asia to Australia grown primarily for its sweet edible fruit resembling litchi nuts |
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lungen |
Noun
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tree of southeastern Asia to Australia grown primarily for its sweet edible fruit resembling litchi nuts |
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largeleaf holly |
Noun
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a holly tree |
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litchi tree |
Noun
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Chinese tree cultivated especially in Philippines and India for its edible fruit |
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laurel sumac |
Noun
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small aromatic evergreen shrub of California having paniculate leaves and whitish berries |
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lentisk |
Noun
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an evergreen shrub of the Mediterranean region that is cultivated for its resin |
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lemon sumac |
Noun
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sweet-scented sumac of eastern America having ternate leaves and yellowish-green flowers in spikes resembling catkins followed by red hairy fruits |
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lacquer tree |
Noun
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small Asiatic tree yielding a toxic exudate from which lacquer is obtained |
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live-forever |
Noun
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perennial northern temperate plant with toothed leaves and heads of small purplish-white flowers |
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lacewood |
Noun
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variably colored and sometimes variegated hard tough elastic wood of a sycamore tree |
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leatherleaf saxifrage |
Noun
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plant with basal leathery elliptic leaves and erect leafless flower stalks each bearing a dense roundish cluster of tiny white flowers |
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large-flowered fiddleneck |
Noun
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annual of the western United States having large coiled flower spikes |
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love vine |
Noun
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leafless parasitic vine with dense clusters of small white bell-shaped flowers on orange-yellow stems that twine around clover or flax |
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lesser calamint |
Noun
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low-growing strongly aromatic perennial herb of southern Europe to Great Britain |
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lipstick plant |
Noun
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epiphyte or creeping on rocks |
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lace-flower vine |
Noun
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low-growing creeping perennial of Central America having deeply fringed white flowers |
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lemon mint |
Noun
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mint with leaves having perfume like that of the bergamot orange |
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lemon mint |
Noun
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an annual horsemint of central and western United States and northern Mexico |
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lion's-ear |
Noun
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pantropical herb having whorls of striking lipped flowers |
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lobster plant |
Noun
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tropical American plant having poisonous milk and showy tapering usually scarlet petallike leaves surrounding small yellow flowers |
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love apple |
Noun
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native to South America |
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lady-of-the-night |
Noun
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West Indian shrub with fragrant showy yellowish-white flowers |
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lantana |
Noun
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a flowering shrub |
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long pepper |
Noun
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plant bearing very hot and finely tapering long peppers |
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long pepper |
Noun
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slender tropical climber of the eastern Himalayas |
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large white petunia |
Noun
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annual herb having large nocturnally fragrant white flowers |
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lesser hemlock |
Noun
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European weed naturalized in America that resembles parsley but causes nausea and poisoning when eaten |
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lamb's lettuce |
Noun
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widely cultivated as a salad crop and pot herb |
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leathery grape fern |
Noun
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European fern with leathery and sparsely hairy fronds |
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leak fungus |
Noun
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fungus causing soft watery rot in fruits and vegetables and rings of dry rot around roots of sweet potatoes |
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lichen |
Noun
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any thallophytic plant of the division Lichenes |
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lichen |
Noun
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any of several eruptive skin diseases characterized by hard thick lesions grouped together and resembling lichens growing on rocks |
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lecanora |
Noun
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any lichen of the genus Lecanora |
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lepiota |
Noun
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any fungus of the genus Lepiota |
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lorchel |
Noun
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a large fungus of the family Helvellaceae |
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loose smut |
Noun
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a smut fungus of the genus Ustilago causing a smut disease of grains in which the entire head is transformed into a dusty mass of spores |
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loose smut |
Noun
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disease of grains |
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ligneous plant |
Noun
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a plant having hard lignified tissues or woody parts especially stems |
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lignosae |
Noun
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a category in some early taxonomies |
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leafstalk |
Noun
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the slender stem that supports the blade of a leaf |
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leaf blade |
Noun
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especially a leaf of grass or the broad portion of a leaf as distinct from the petiole |
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laticifer |
Noun
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a plant duct containing latex |
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liana |
Noun
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a woody climbing usually tropical plant |
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leptosporangium |
Noun
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a sporangium formed from a single epidermal cell |
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loment |
Noun
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seedpods that are constricted between the seeds and that break apart when mature into single-seeded segments |
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lignum |
Noun
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woody tissue |
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lithophyte |
Noun
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plant that grows on rocks or stony soil and derives nourishment from the atmosphere |