a starch made by leaching and drying the root of the cassava plant
mandioc
Noun
cassava with long tuberous edible roots and soft brittle stems
mandioca
Noun
cassava with long tuberous edible roots and soft brittle stems
moon carrot
Noun
any plant of the genus Seseli having dense umbels of small white or pink flowers and finely divided foliage
mushroom pimple
Noun
any of various fungi of the family Hypocreaceae
mosquito fern
Noun
small free-floating aquatic fern from the eastern United States to tropical America
moonwort
Noun
of America and Eurasia and Australia
mucor
Noun
any mold of the genus Mucor
myxomycete
Noun
a slime mold of the class Myxomycetes
manna lichen
Noun
any of several Old World partially crustaceous or shrubby lecanoras that roll up and are blown about over African and Arabian deserts and used as food by people and animals
meadow mushroom
Noun
common edible mushroom found naturally in moist open soil
morel
Noun
any of various edible mushrooms of the genus Morchella having a brownish spongelike cap
mycelium
Noun
the vegetative part of a fungus consisting of a mass of branching threadlike hyphae
milkcap
Noun
edible mushroom
miter mushroom
Noun
a helvella with a saddle-shaped fertile part and creamy color
man-on-a-horse
Noun
an edible agaric with yellow gills and a viscid yellow cap that has a brownish center
meristem
Noun
undifferentiated tissue from which new cells are formed, as at the tip of a stem or root
ming tree
Noun
a dwarfed evergreen conifer or shrub shaped to have flat-topped asymmetrical branches and grown in a container
ming tree
Noun
an artificial plant resembling a bonsai
mildew
Noun
a fungus that produces a usually white, superficial growth on organic matter
mildew
Noun
the process of becoming mildewed
mildew
Verb
become moldy
mesophyte
Noun
land plant growing in surroundings having an average supply of water
monilia
Noun
any of the yeastlike imperfect fungi of the genus Monilia
mesophytic plant
Noun
land plant growing in surroundings having an average supply of water
multiple fruit
Noun
fruit consisting of many individual small fruits or drupes derived from separate ovaries within a common receptacle: e.g. blackberry
marsh plant
Noun
a semiaquatic plant that grows in soft wet land
midrib
Noun
the vein in the center of a leaf
midvein
Noun
the vein in the center of a leaf
medullary ray
Noun
a sheet of vascular tissue separating the vascular bundles
mixed bud
Noun
a bud yielding both leaves and flowers
malvasia
Noun
used to make malmsey wine
muskat
Noun
any of several cultivated grapevines that produce sweet white grapes
mountain spleenwort
Noun
a spleenwort of eastern North America
male fern
Noun
fern of North America and Europe whose rhizomes and stalks yield an oleoresin used to expel tapeworms
marginal wood fern
Noun
North American fern with evergreen fronds
mountain male fern
Noun
a fern of the genus Dryopteris
myrmecophyte
Noun
plant that affords shelter or food to ants that live in symbiotic relations with it
mountain bladder fern
Noun
fern of rocky mountainous areas of hemisphere
maidenhair spleenwort
Noun
small rock-inhabiting fern of northern temperate zone and Hawaii with pinnate fronds
marsh horsetail
Noun
scouring-rush horsetail widely distributed in wet or boggy areas of northern hemisphere
meadow fern
Noun
fern of northeastern North America
maidenhair
Noun
any of various small to large terrestrial ferns of the genus Adiantum having delicate palmately branched fronds
maidenhair fern
Noun
any of various small to large terrestrial ferns of the genus Adiantum having delicate palmately branched fronds
mountain clubmoss
Noun
of northern Europe and America
meadow spikemoss
Noun
spikemoss forming dense mats
mountain fern
Noun
common European mountain fern having fragrant lemon or balsam scented fronds