English words for 'Any ericaceous plant.'
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noun
- Any plant.
- A plant raised for some edible part of it, such as the leaves, roots, fruit or flowers, but excluding any plant considered to be a fruit, grain, herb, or spice in the culinary sense.
- The edible part of such a plant.
- (RAF, slang, historical) A mine (explosive device).
- (figuratively, derogatory) A person whose brain (or, infrequently, whose body) has been damaged to the point that they cannot interact with the surrounding environment; a person in a persistent vegetative state.
- any of various herbaceous plants cultivated for an edible part such as the fruit or the root of the beet or the leaf of spinach or the seeds of bean plants or the flower buds of broccoli or cauliflower
- edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plant
adj
noun
- Any thorny shrub.
- any of various rough thorny shrubs or vines
- A cocktail of gin, lemon juice, and blackberry liqueur.
- Any of many closely related thorny plants in the genus Rubus including the blackberry and likely not including the raspberry proper.
- (graph theory) A collection of mutually touching connected subgraphs, where two subgraphs touch if they share a vertex or each includes one endpoint of an edge.
- (chiefly Scotland) The soft fruit borne by the species Rubus fruticosus formed of a black (when ripe) cluster of drupelets.
verb
noun
- Any plant the stem of which creeps along the ground.
- Any plant whose stem requires support and which climbs by tendrils or twining.
- (especially UK) A climbing plant that produces grapes.
- Any plant of the genus Vitis.
- A stem of such plants, especially when thick and rope-like; a liana.
- a plant with a weak stem that derives support from climbing, twining, or creeping along a surface
noun
- Such a plant.
- A laser printer.
- A device that produces a monochromatic, coherent beam of light.
- (uncountable, medicine) Ellipsis of laser hair removal.
- A gum resin obtained from certain umbelliferous plants.
- A beam of light produced by such a device; a laser beam.
- an acronym for light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation; an optical device that produces an intense monochromatic beam of coherent light
verb
noun
- Any of several similar plants:
- (biblical) A plant used used for sprinkling of blood or water in purification rituals and at Passover, Origanum syriacum.
- Agastache foeniculum, blue giant hyssop.
- Any of several aromatic bushy herbs, of the genus Hyssopus, native to Southern Europe and once used medicinally.
- bitter leaves used sparingly in salads; dried flowers used in soups and tisanes
- a European mint with aromatic and pungent leaves used in perfumery and as a seasoning in cookery; often cultivated as a remedy for bruises; yields hyssop oil
noun
- Any of several other similar plants. (See below)
- Chamaemelum nobile (formerly Anthemis nobilis), English chamomile or Roman chamomile, a ground cover with fragrant foliage.
- Ellipsis of camomile tea.
- Matricaria recutita (formerly known as Matricaria chamomilla), German chamomile or Hungarian chamomile, with fragrant flowers used for tea, and as an herbal remedy.
- Eurasian plant with apple-scented foliage and white-rayed flowers and feathery leaves used medicinally; in some classification systems placed in genus Anthemis
noun
- Any plant used to form a hedge.
- The act of one who hedges (in various senses).
- (pragmatics, composition) The use of intentionally ambiguous or noncommittal statements.
- (finance) the practice of taking a position in one market to offset and balance against the risk adopted by assuming a position in a contrary or opposing market or investment
- any technique designed to reduce or eliminate financial risk; for example, taking two positions that will offset each other if prices change
- an intentionally noncommittal or ambiguous statement
verb
noun
- Any plant that grows wild; a wildflower, etc.
- (US, criminology, sociology) A form of youth violence characterized by a group of young people committing violent acts randomly and without specific targets.
- A wild apple or apple tree.
- a wild uncultivated plant (especially a wild apple or crabapple tree)
- an outrageous rampage usually involving sexual attacks by men on women
adj
verb
verb
- plant with trees
- chase an animal up a tree
- force a person or an animal into a position from which they cannot escape
- stretch (a shoe) on a shoetree
- (transitive) To place in a tree.
- (transitive) To chase (an animal or person) up a tree.
- (intransitive) To take refuge in a tree.
- (transitive) To place upon a shoe tree; to fit with a shoe tree; to stretch upon a shoe tree.
noun
- a figure that branches from a single root
- a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms
- Any structure or construct having branches representing divergence or possible choices.
- (chemistry) A mass of crystals, aggregated in arborescent forms, obtained by precipitation of a metal from solution.
- An object made from a tree trunk and having multiple hooks or storage platforms.
- (cartomancy) The fifth Lenormand card.
- (computing theory) A recursive data structure in which each node has zero or more nodes as children, but does not share children with other nodes.
- A device used to hold or stretch a shoe open.
- (uncountable, mathematics) Alternative letter-case form of TREE.
- Any other plant (such as a large shrub or herb) that is reminiscent of the above in form and size.
- (archaic outside Christianity) A cross or gallows.
- A perennial woody plant taller and larger than a shrub with a wooden trunk and, at some distance from the ground, having leaves and branches.
- The structural frame of a saddle.
- (graphical user interface) A display or listing of entries or elements such that there are primary and secondary entries shown, usually linked by drawn lines or by indenting to the right.
- (graph theory) A connected graph with no cycles or, if the graph is finite, equivalently a connected graph with n vertices and n−1 edges.
- The structure or wooden frame used in the construction of a saddle used in horse riding.
- (often in the plural, slang) Marijuana.
noun
- The shrub of the above-mentioned plant.
- Vaccinium myrtillus, the wild European blueberry of the cowberry family.
- blue-black berries similar to American blueberries
- erect blueberry of western United States having solitary flowers and somewhat sour berries
- erect European blueberry having solitary flowers and blue-black berries
noun
- Anything resembling the leaf of a plant.
- A sheet of any substance beaten or rolled until very thin.
- A flat section used to extend the size of a table.
- (programming, x86) A particular value of the EAX register when a program runs the CPUID instruction; each leaf represents a different category of information returned about the processor.
- (plural leaves or leafs) A moveable panel, e.g. of a bridge or door, originally one that hinged but now also applied to other forms of movement.
- (publishing, bookbinding, advertising) A sheet of a book, magazine, etc. (consisting of two pages, one on each face of the leaf).
- One of the teeth of a pinion, especially when small.
- The layer of fat supporting the kidneys of a pig, leaf fat.
- (slang, uncountable) Cannabis.
- (botany) A foliage leaf or any of the many and often considerably different structures it can specialise into.
- One of the individual flat or curved strips of metal, typically made of spring steel, that make up a leaf spring.
- (4chan slang, Internet slang, humorous, sometimes pejorative, plural leafs) A Canadian person.
- The usually green and flat organ that represents the most prominent feature of most vegetative plants.
- (computing, mathematics) In a tree, a node that has no descendants.
- (in the plural) Tea leaves.
- the main organ of photosynthesis and transpiration in higher plants
- a sheet of any written or printed material (especially in a manuscript or book)
- hinged or detachable flat section (as of a table or door)
verb
- (intransitive) To produce leaves; put forth foliage.
- (informal, transitive, uncommon) To play a prank on someone by throwing a large clump or collection of leaves at them.
- (transitive) To divide (a vegetable) into separate leaves.
- look through a book or other written material
- produce leaves, of plants
- turn over pages
noun
- an ornamental plant suitable for planting in a flowerbed
- Agent noun of bed; one who beds.
- (Cambridge University slang) Contraction of bedmaker; a housekeeper or domestic cleaner (historically a domestic servant), generally female, employed by one of the constituent colleges of Cambridge University to clean rooms; generally equivalent to a modern scout at Oxford University.
- (in combination, informal) A property with a specified number of bedrooms.
noun
- Anything that is transplanted, especially and archetypically a plant.
- (US) Someone who is not native to their area of residence.
- (medicine) A transplanted organ or tissue: a graft.
- (medicine) An operation (procedure) in which tissue or an organ is transplanted: an instance of transplantation.
- An act of uprooting and moving (something), especially and archetypically a plant.
- an operation moving an organ from one organism (the donor) to another (the recipient)
- the act of removing something from one location and introducing it in another location
- (surgery) tissue or organ transplanted from a donor to a recipient; in some cases the patient can be both donor and recipient
verb
- (transitive) To remove (something) and establish its residence in another place; to resettle or relocate.
- (transitive) To uproot (a growing plant), and plant it in another place.
- (transitive, medicine) To transfer (tissue or an organ) from one body to another, or from one part of a body to another.
- place the organ of a donor into the body of a recipient
- be transplantable
- transfer from one place or period to another
- lift and reset in another soil or situation
adj
- (of a plant) In a well-pruned state.
- (of a vehicle) Not moving, but not properly parked or berthed; said also of the occupants of such a vehicle.
- (phonetics) Made by complete closure of the organs in the mouth; said of certain consonants such as b, d, p, and t.
- (more generally) In the state resulting from having stopped.
- (of a pipe) Having a stop; being closed at one end.
- (of a nose) blocked
verb
noun
- any plant (as ivy or periwinkle) that grows by creeping
- any of various small insectivorous birds of the Northern Hemisphere that climb up a tree trunk supporting themselves on stiff tail feathers and their feet
- a person who crawls or creeps along the ground
- Any creeping animal (such as a serpent), reptile.
- Strophitus undulatus, a freshwater mussel of the eastern United States.
- A person or a thing that crawls or creeps.
- A device which allows a small child to safely roam around a room from a seated or standing position.
- A spur-like device strapped to the boot to facilitate climbing.
- (derogatory, slang) A person who creeps people out; a creepy person.
- Any plant (as ivy or periwinkle) that grows by creeping, especially a climbing plant of the genus Parthenocissus.
- (often in the plural) A one-piece garment for infants designed to facilitate access to the wearer's diaper.
- A low-profile wheeled platform whereupon one may lie on one's back and gain better access to the roof of a space with very low height (such as the underbody of a vehicle), or a low stool similarly wheeled.
- A treecreeper.
- Any device for causing material to move steadily from one part of a machine to another, such as an apron in a carding machine, or an inner spiral in a grain screen.
- A kind of shoe, usually with a suede upper and a thick crepe sole, associated with various 20th-century subcultures.
- The lowest gear of some tractors or trucks: one with so low a gear ratio that the vehicle creeps along at the speed of a human's slow walk.
- (nautical) A small four-hooked grapnel used to recover objects dropped onto the sea bed.
- An instrument with iron hooks or claws for dredging up items from a well or other water.
- A metal plate with spikes, designed to be worn with shoes to prevent slipping.
- (cricket) A ball that travels low, near ground level.
- (chiefly in the plural) A small low iron, or dog, between the andirons.
noun
- Any plant of the genus Parietaria.
- Parietaria debilis.
- Achillea ptarmica (European pellitory, bastard pellitory, wild pellitory, sneezewort.
- Tanacetum cinerariifolium (formerly Chrysanthemum cinerariifolium) (feverfew, Dalmatian pellitory).
- Parietaria judaica (spreading pellitory).
- Pellitory of Spain (Anacyclus pyrethrum), a plant containing an oil once used for toothaches and facial neuralgia.
- Parietaria hespera.
- Pellitory of the wall (Parietaria officinalis).
- herb that grows in crevices having long narrow leaves and small pink apetalous flowers
- a small Mediterranean plant containing a volatile oil once used to relieve toothache
adj
- (of a plant) having a lush and unchecked growth
- unrestrained and violent
- rearing on left hind leg with forelegs elevated and head usually in profile
- (architecture) Tilted, said of an arch with one side higher than the other, or a vault whose two abutments are located on an inclined plane.
- (heraldry) Rearing up, especially on its hind leg(s), with a foreleg raised and in profile.
- Unrestrained or unchecked, usually in a negative manner.
- (originally) Rearing on both hind legs with the forelegs extended.
- Rife, or occurring widely, frequently or menacingly.
adv
noun
- Any plant.
- A plant raised for some edible part of it, such as the leaves, roots, fruit or flowers, but excluding any plant considered to be a fruit, grain, herb, or spice in the culinary sense.
- The edible part of such a plant.
- (RAF, slang, historical) A mine (explosive device).
- (figuratively, derogatory) A person whose brain (or, infrequently, whose body) has been damaged to the point that they cannot interact with the surrounding environment; a person in a persistent vegetative state.
- any of various herbaceous plants cultivated for an edible part such as the fruit or the root of the beet or the leaf of spinach or the seeds of bean plants or the flower buds of broccoli or cauliflower
- edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plant
adj
noun
- Any thorny shrub.
- any of various rough thorny shrubs or vines
- A cocktail of gin, lemon juice, and blackberry liqueur.
- Any of many closely related thorny plants in the genus Rubus including the blackberry and likely not including the raspberry proper.
- (graph theory) A collection of mutually touching connected subgraphs, where two subgraphs touch if they share a vertex or each includes one endpoint of an edge.
- (chiefly Scotland) The soft fruit borne by the species Rubus fruticosus formed of a black (when ripe) cluster of drupelets.
verb
noun
- Any plant the stem of which creeps along the ground.
- Any plant whose stem requires support and which climbs by tendrils or twining.
- (especially UK) A climbing plant that produces grapes.
- Any plant of the genus Vitis.
- A stem of such plants, especially when thick and rope-like; a liana.
- a plant with a weak stem that derives support from climbing, twining, or creeping along a surface
noun
- Such a plant.
- A laser printer.
- A device that produces a monochromatic, coherent beam of light.
- (uncountable, medicine) Ellipsis of laser hair removal.
- A gum resin obtained from certain umbelliferous plants.
- A beam of light produced by such a device; a laser beam.
- an acronym for light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation; an optical device that produces an intense monochromatic beam of coherent light
verb
noun
- Any of several similar plants:
- (biblical) A plant used used for sprinkling of blood or water in purification rituals and at Passover, Origanum syriacum.
- Agastache foeniculum, blue giant hyssop.
- Any of several aromatic bushy herbs, of the genus Hyssopus, native to Southern Europe and once used medicinally.
- bitter leaves used sparingly in salads; dried flowers used in soups and tisanes
- a European mint with aromatic and pungent leaves used in perfumery and as a seasoning in cookery; often cultivated as a remedy for bruises; yields hyssop oil
noun
- Any of several other similar plants. (See below)
- Chamaemelum nobile (formerly Anthemis nobilis), English chamomile or Roman chamomile, a ground cover with fragrant foliage.
- Ellipsis of camomile tea.
- Matricaria recutita (formerly known as Matricaria chamomilla), German chamomile or Hungarian chamomile, with fragrant flowers used for tea, and as an herbal remedy.
- Eurasian plant with apple-scented foliage and white-rayed flowers and feathery leaves used medicinally; in some classification systems placed in genus Anthemis
noun
- Any plant used to form a hedge.
- The act of one who hedges (in various senses).
- (pragmatics, composition) The use of intentionally ambiguous or noncommittal statements.
- (finance) the practice of taking a position in one market to offset and balance against the risk adopted by assuming a position in a contrary or opposing market or investment
- any technique designed to reduce or eliminate financial risk; for example, taking two positions that will offset each other if prices change
- an intentionally noncommittal or ambiguous statement
verb
noun
- Any plant that grows wild; a wildflower, etc.
- (US, criminology, sociology) A form of youth violence characterized by a group of young people committing violent acts randomly and without specific targets.
- A wild apple or apple tree.
- a wild uncultivated plant (especially a wild apple or crabapple tree)
- an outrageous rampage usually involving sexual attacks by men on women
adj
verb
noun
- The shrub of the above-mentioned plant.
- Vaccinium myrtillus, the wild European blueberry of the cowberry family.
- blue-black berries similar to American blueberries
- erect blueberry of western United States having solitary flowers and somewhat sour berries
- erect European blueberry having solitary flowers and blue-black berries
noun
- Anything resembling the leaf of a plant.
- A sheet of any substance beaten or rolled until very thin.
- A flat section used to extend the size of a table.
- (programming, x86) A particular value of the EAX register when a program runs the CPUID instruction; each leaf represents a different category of information returned about the processor.
- (plural leaves or leafs) A moveable panel, e.g. of a bridge or door, originally one that hinged but now also applied to other forms of movement.
- (publishing, bookbinding, advertising) A sheet of a book, magazine, etc. (consisting of two pages, one on each face of the leaf).
- One of the teeth of a pinion, especially when small.
- The layer of fat supporting the kidneys of a pig, leaf fat.
- (slang, uncountable) Cannabis.
- (botany) A foliage leaf or any of the many and often considerably different structures it can specialise into.
- One of the individual flat or curved strips of metal, typically made of spring steel, that make up a leaf spring.
- (4chan slang, Internet slang, humorous, sometimes pejorative, plural leafs) A Canadian person.
- The usually green and flat organ that represents the most prominent feature of most vegetative plants.
- (computing, mathematics) In a tree, a node that has no descendants.
- (in the plural) Tea leaves.
- the main organ of photosynthesis and transpiration in higher plants
- a sheet of any written or printed material (especially in a manuscript or book)
- hinged or detachable flat section (as of a table or door)
verb
- (intransitive) To produce leaves; put forth foliage.
- (informal, transitive, uncommon) To play a prank on someone by throwing a large clump or collection of leaves at them.
- (transitive) To divide (a vegetable) into separate leaves.
- look through a book or other written material
- produce leaves, of plants
- turn over pages
noun
- an ornamental plant suitable for planting in a flowerbed
- Agent noun of bed; one who beds.
- (Cambridge University slang) Contraction of bedmaker; a housekeeper or domestic cleaner (historically a domestic servant), generally female, employed by one of the constituent colleges of Cambridge University to clean rooms; generally equivalent to a modern scout at Oxford University.
- (in combination, informal) A property with a specified number of bedrooms.
noun
- Anything that is transplanted, especially and archetypically a plant.
- (US) Someone who is not native to their area of residence.
- (medicine) A transplanted organ or tissue: a graft.
- (medicine) An operation (procedure) in which tissue or an organ is transplanted: an instance of transplantation.
- An act of uprooting and moving (something), especially and archetypically a plant.
- an operation moving an organ from one organism (the donor) to another (the recipient)
- the act of removing something from one location and introducing it in another location
- (surgery) tissue or organ transplanted from a donor to a recipient; in some cases the patient can be both donor and recipient
verb
- (transitive) To remove (something) and establish its residence in another place; to resettle or relocate.
- (transitive) To uproot (a growing plant), and plant it in another place.
- (transitive, medicine) To transfer (tissue or an organ) from one body to another, or from one part of a body to another.
- place the organ of a donor into the body of a recipient
- be transplantable
- transfer from one place or period to another
- lift and reset in another soil or situation
noun
- any plant (as ivy or periwinkle) that grows by creeping
- any of various small insectivorous birds of the Northern Hemisphere that climb up a tree trunk supporting themselves on stiff tail feathers and their feet
- a person who crawls or creeps along the ground
- Any creeping animal (such as a serpent), reptile.
- Strophitus undulatus, a freshwater mussel of the eastern United States.
- A person or a thing that crawls or creeps.
- A device which allows a small child to safely roam around a room from a seated or standing position.
- A spur-like device strapped to the boot to facilitate climbing.
- (derogatory, slang) A person who creeps people out; a creepy person.
- Any plant (as ivy or periwinkle) that grows by creeping, especially a climbing plant of the genus Parthenocissus.
- (often in the plural) A one-piece garment for infants designed to facilitate access to the wearer's diaper.
- A low-profile wheeled platform whereupon one may lie on one's back and gain better access to the roof of a space with very low height (such as the underbody of a vehicle), or a low stool similarly wheeled.
- A treecreeper.
- Any device for causing material to move steadily from one part of a machine to another, such as an apron in a carding machine, or an inner spiral in a grain screen.
- A kind of shoe, usually with a suede upper and a thick crepe sole, associated with various 20th-century subcultures.
- The lowest gear of some tractors or trucks: one with so low a gear ratio that the vehicle creeps along at the speed of a human's slow walk.
- (nautical) A small four-hooked grapnel used to recover objects dropped onto the sea bed.
- An instrument with iron hooks or claws for dredging up items from a well or other water.
- A metal plate with spikes, designed to be worn with shoes to prevent slipping.
- (cricket) A ball that travels low, near ground level.
- (chiefly in the plural) A small low iron, or dog, between the andirons.
noun
- Any plant of the genus Parietaria.
- Parietaria debilis.
- Achillea ptarmica (European pellitory, bastard pellitory, wild pellitory, sneezewort.
- Tanacetum cinerariifolium (formerly Chrysanthemum cinerariifolium) (feverfew, Dalmatian pellitory).
- Parietaria judaica (spreading pellitory).
- Pellitory of Spain (Anacyclus pyrethrum), a plant containing an oil once used for toothaches and facial neuralgia.
- Parietaria hespera.
- Pellitory of the wall (Parietaria officinalis).
- herb that grows in crevices having long narrow leaves and small pink apetalous flowers
- a small Mediterranean plant containing a volatile oil once used to relieve toothache
verb
- plant with trees
- chase an animal up a tree
- force a person or an animal into a position from which they cannot escape
- stretch (a shoe) on a shoetree
- (transitive) To place in a tree.
- (transitive) To chase (an animal or person) up a tree.
- (intransitive) To take refuge in a tree.
- (transitive) To place upon a shoe tree; to fit with a shoe tree; to stretch upon a shoe tree.
noun
- a figure that branches from a single root
- a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms
- Any structure or construct having branches representing divergence or possible choices.
- (chemistry) A mass of crystals, aggregated in arborescent forms, obtained by precipitation of a metal from solution.
- An object made from a tree trunk and having multiple hooks or storage platforms.
- (cartomancy) The fifth Lenormand card.
- (computing theory) A recursive data structure in which each node has zero or more nodes as children, but does not share children with other nodes.
- A device used to hold or stretch a shoe open.
- (uncountable, mathematics) Alternative letter-case form of TREE.
- Any other plant (such as a large shrub or herb) that is reminiscent of the above in form and size.
- (archaic outside Christianity) A cross or gallows.
- A perennial woody plant taller and larger than a shrub with a wooden trunk and, at some distance from the ground, having leaves and branches.
- The structural frame of a saddle.
- (graphical user interface) A display or listing of entries or elements such that there are primary and secondary entries shown, usually linked by drawn lines or by indenting to the right.
- (graph theory) A connected graph with no cycles or, if the graph is finite, equivalently a connected graph with n vertices and n−1 edges.
- The structure or wooden frame used in the construction of a saddle used in horse riding.
- (often in the plural, slang) Marijuana.
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adj
- (of a plant) In a well-pruned state.
- (of a vehicle) Not moving, but not properly parked or berthed; said also of the occupants of such a vehicle.
- (phonetics) Made by complete closure of the organs in the mouth; said of certain consonants such as b, d, p, and t.
- (more generally) In the state resulting from having stopped.
- (of a pipe) Having a stop; being closed at one end.
- (of a nose) blocked
verb
adj
- (of a plant) having a lush and unchecked growth
- unrestrained and violent
- rearing on left hind leg with forelegs elevated and head usually in profile
- (architecture) Tilted, said of an arch with one side higher than the other, or a vault whose two abutments are located on an inclined plane.
- (heraldry) Rearing up, especially on its hind leg(s), with a foreleg raised and in profile.
- Unrestrained or unchecked, usually in a negative manner.
- (originally) Rearing on both hind legs with the forelegs extended.
- Rife, or occurring widely, frequently or menacingly.