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A biennial plant of the genus Beta, which produces an edible root the first year and seed the second year.

The prickly fruit or seed of certain plants (as some species of Echinospermum and Cynoglossum) which cling to the clothing of those who brush by them.

A genus of plants, mostly of tropical America, many species of which are grown as ornamental plants. The leaves are curiously one- sided, and often exhibit brilliant colors.

An herbaceous European plant (Atropa belladonna) with reddish bell-shaped flowers and shining black berries. The whole plant and its fruit are very poisonous, and the root and leaves are used as powerful medicinal agents. Its properties are largely due to the alkaloid atropine which it contains. Called also deadly nigh…

A plant of the genus Campanula; -- so named from its bell- shaped flowers.

A genus of plants (Uvularia) with yellowish bell-shaped flowers.

The name of two plants (Sesamum orientale and S. indicum), originally Asiatic; -- also called oil plant. From their seeds an oil is expressed, called benne oil, used mostly for making soap. In the southern United States the seeds are used in candy.

owered avens of Europe (Geum urbanum); herb bennet. The name is sometimes given to other plants, as the hemlock, valerian, etc.

ed, as a bitter, yellow substance, from the root of the barberry, gold thread, and other plants.

An Egyptian clover (Trifolium alexandrinum) extensively cultivated as a forage plant and soil-renewing crop in the alkaline soils of the Nile valley, and now introduced into the southwestern United States. It is more succulent than other clovers or than alfalfa. Called also Egyptian clover.

A plant of the genus Betonica (Linn.).

e; the angle which one surface makes with another when they are not at right angles; the slant or inclination of such surface; as, to give a bevel to the edge of a table or a stone slab; the bevel of a piece of timber.

A slant; a diagonal; as, to cut cloth on the bias.

To contend in petulant altercation; to wrangle. Petty things about which men cark and bicker. Barrow.

Continuing for two years, and then perishing, as plants which form roots and leaves the first year, and produce fruit the second.

An oval sac or cell, found in the leaves of certain plants of the order Araceæ. It has an opening at each end through which raphides, generated inside, are discharged.

Having two glands, as a plant.

Of pertaining to, or resembling, the family of plants of which the trumpet flower is an example.

f a virulent poison extracted from Aconitum ferox or other species of aconite: also, the plant itself.

urus, or Belone, longirostris) and allied species. (b) The saury, a slender fish of the Atlantic coast (Scomberesox saurus). (c) The Tetrapturus albidus, a large oceanic species related to the swordfish; the spearfish. (d) The American fresh-water garpike (Lepidosteus osseus).