Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A garden-flower, Nigella damascena, so called from its horned capsules looking out from the finely divided involucre. Also called love-in-a-mist.
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Ponderable Plant Names
List of plant names (common or scientific) that go trippingly off the tongue, are fun to contemplate, expose the wit of the namer, or just plain befuddle.
tongueshape mudmi..., glandular maiden ..., jeweled maiden fern, stately maiden fern, hairy maiden fern, downy maiden fern, widespread maiden..., turkey tangle fog..., yankeeweed, clitoria fragrans, clitoria mariana, tall tumblemustard and 261 more...
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Hyphen Nation
Terms with multiple hyphens, such as rent-a-crowd. Not intended to be a see-how-many-words-one-can-string-together-with-hyphens-used-adjectively sort of list.
much-talked-of, vis-à-vis, tête-à-tête, rope-a-dope, will-o'-the-wisp, dick-a-tuesday, will-in-the-wisp, jack-o'-lantern, jack-with-a-lantern, ear-to-ear, whack-a-mole, no-man's-land and 205 more...
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Old Nick and his personal effects
Words & phrases with "devil" in the name - there's a deuce of a lot
devil's matchstick, devil's dung, devil's club, hickory horned devil, deviled egg, blue devils, printer's devil, devil-fish, devil-cart, devil crab, devil dance, dare-devil and 46 more...
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