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water clover

(Encyclopedia)water clover, common name for various species of aquatic ferns. ...

water fern

(Encyclopedia)water fern, common name for various species of aquatic ferns. ...

composite

(Encyclopedia)composite, alternate common name for Asteraceae or Compositae, the aster family. ...

comb jelly

(Encyclopedia)comb jelly, common name for transparent organisms of the phylum Ctenophora. ...

moss animal

(Encyclopedia)moss animal, common name applied to members of the phylum Ectoprocta. ...

bromeliad

(Encyclopedia)bromeliad, common name for plants of the family Bromeliaceae (pineapple family). ...

cotton grass

(Encyclopedia)cotton grass, common name for sedges of the genus Eriophorum. ...

jack-o'-lantern

(Encyclopedia)jack-o'-lantern, common name for the mushroom species Clitocybe illudens. ...

ground pine

(Encyclopedia)ground pine, common name for several creeping plants, particularly species of club moss. ...

Diggers

(Encyclopedia)Diggers, members of a small English religio-economic movement (fl. 1649–50), so called because they attempted to dig (i.e., cultivate) the wastelands. They were an offshoot of the more important gro...

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