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water gillyflower |
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a featherfoil of the eastern United States with submerged spongy inflated flower stalks and white flowers |
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water violet |
Noun
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featherfoil of Europe and western Asia having submerged and floating leaves and violet flowers |
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white yam |
Noun
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grown in Australasia and Polynesia for its large root with fine edible white flesh |
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water yam |
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grown in Australasia and Polynesia for its large root with fine edible white flesh |
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wheatgrass |
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a grass of the genus Agropyron |
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wheat-grass |
Noun
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a grass of the genus Agropyron |
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witch grass |
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European grass spreading rapidly by creeping rhizomes |
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witch grass |
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North American grass with slender brushy panicles |
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witchgrass |
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European grass spreading rapidly by creeping rhizomes |
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witchgrass |
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North American grass with slender brushy panicles |
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western wheatgrass |
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valuable forage grass of western United States |
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wire grass |
Noun
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coarse annual grass having fingerlike spikes of flowers |
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wire grass |
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handsome hardy North American grass with foliage turning pale bronze in autumn |
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wild rye |
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any of several grasses of the genus Elymus |
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windmill grass |
Noun
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perennial Australian grass having numerous long spikes arranged like the vanes of a windmill |
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weeping love grass |
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perennial South African grass having densely clumped flimsy stems |
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wild oat |
Noun
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common in meadows and pastures |
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wild oat grass |
Noun
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common in meadows and pastures |
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wild red oat |
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Mediterranean oat held to be progenitor of modern cultivated oat |
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wild wheat |
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found wild in Palestine |
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wall barley |
Noun
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European annual grass often found as a weed in waste ground especially along roadsides and hedgerows |
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wood meadowgrass |
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slender European grass of shady places |
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wool grass |
Noun
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grass often cultivated for its long white-ribbed leaves and large plumes resembling those of pampas grass |
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wool grass |
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sedge of eastern North America having numerous clustered woolly spikelets |
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water lobelia |
Noun
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erect perennial aquatic herb of Europe and North America having submerged spongy leaves and pendulous racemes of blue flowers above the water |
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winter squash plant |
Noun
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any of various plants of the species Cucurbita maxima and Cucurbita moschata producing squashes that have hard rinds and mature in the fall |
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winter crookneck |
Noun
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any of various plants bearing squash having hard rinds and elongated recurved necks |
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wild pumpkin |
Noun
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perennial vine of dry parts of central and southwestern United States and Mexico having small hard mottled green inedible fruit |
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white bryony |
Noun
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white-flowered vine having thick roots and bearing small black berries |
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wild hop |
Noun
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bryony having fleshy roots pale green flowers and very small red berries |
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watermelon vine |
Noun
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an African melon |
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winter melon vine |
Noun
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any of a variety of muskmelon vines having fruit with a smooth white rind and white or greenish flesh that does not have a musky smell |
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white mallow |
Noun
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European perennial plant naturalized in United States having triangular ovate leaves and lilac-pink flowers |
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waxmallow |
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any of various plants of the genus Malvaviscus having brilliant bell-shaped drooping flowers like incompletely opened hibiscus flowers |
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wax mallow |
Noun
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any of various plants of the genus Malvaviscus having brilliant bell-shaped drooping flowers like incompletely opened hibiscus flowers |
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wineberry |
Noun
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graceful deciduous shrub or small tree having attractive foliage and small red berries that turn black at maturity and are used for making wine |
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wineberry |
Noun
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raspberry of China and Japan having pale pink flowers grown for ornament and for the small red acid fruits |
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wild hollyhock |
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a rare mallow found only in Illinois resembling the common hollyhock and having pale rose-mauve flowers |
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wild hollyhock |
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perennial purple-flowered wild mallow of western North America that is also cultivated |
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white silk-cotton tree |
Noun
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massive tropical tree with deep ridges on its massive trunk and bearing large pods of seeds covered with silky floss |
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wood laurel |
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a North American evergreen shrub having glossy leaves and white or rose-colored flowers |
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wood laurel |
Noun
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bushy Eurasian shrub with glossy leathery oblong leaves and yellow-green flowers |
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waratah |
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tall shrub of eastern Australia having oblanceolate to obovate leaves and red flowers in compact racemes |
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waratah |
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straggling shrub with narrow leaves and conspicuous red flowers in dense globular racemes |
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woody pear |
Noun
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tree bearing pear-shaped fruit with a thick woody epicarp |
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woolly manzanita |
Noun
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erect openly branched California shrub whose twigs are woolly when young |
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white heather |
Noun
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heath of mountains of western United States having bell-shaped white flowers |
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winter heath |
Noun
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dwarf European shrub with very early blooming bell-shaped red flowers |
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white basswood |
Noun
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American basswood of the Allegheny region |
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waxflower |
Noun
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small waxy white or pinkish-white saprophytic woodland plant having scalelike leaves and a nodding flower |