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111Cooking oil — Plant oils Olive oil Types Vegetable fats (list) Macerated (list) Uses …
112Equisetopsida — ▪ plant class Introduction (division Pteridophyta), class of primitive spore bearing vascular plants. Most members of the group are extinct and known only from their fossilized remains. The sole living genus, Equisetum (horsetail), order… …
113Laurales — ▪ plant order Introduction the Laurel order of flowering plants, containing 7 families, 91 genera, and about 2,900 species. Members of Laurales are trees, shrubs, or woody vines. Most are found in tropical or warm temperate climates, and they… …
114leafy liverwort — ▪ plant also called scale moss any of numerous species of liverworts (class Hepatopsida), generally of the order Jungermanniales, in which the plant body is prostrate and extends horizontally in leaflike form with an upper and lower… …
115Venus's looking glass — ▪ plant (Legousia, or Specularia, speculum veneris), species of annual herb of the bellflower family (Campanulaceae), native to sandy, sunny parts of the Mediterranean region. It is grown as a garden ornamental for its blue, violet, or white,… …
116man orchid — ▪ plant (species Aceras anthropophorum), the only species in the genus Aceras, plant family Orchidaceae. It is native to grasslands of Great Britain, Eurasia, and northern Africa. The man orchid derives its name from the helmeted, humanlike …
117passion-flower — ▪ plant any of about 400 species of tendril bearing, herbaceous vines comprising the genus Passiflora (family Passifloraceae), with characteristic flowers. Some are important as ornamentals; others are grown for their edible fruits. The… …
118giant arborvitae — ▪ plant also called western arborvitae (Thuja plicata) an ornamental and timber evergreen conifer of the cypress family (Cupressaceae), native to the Pacific Coast of North America. Common lumber trade names for this species are western red… …
119Lycaste — ▪ plant genus genus of about 45 species of tropical American orchids, family Orchidaceae, that grow on other plants or in soil. The sepals of Lycaste flowers are larger than the petals. Each thick, egg shaped pseudobulb (swollen stem) …
120sweet shrub — ▪ plant also called Carolina allspice, California allspice, or strawberry shrub one of two species of small ornamental trees of the family Calycanthaceae, with aromatic bark and sweet scented flowers, both native to North America.… …
