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  • 31prairie cordgrass — noun North American cordgrass having leaves with dry membranous margins and glumes with long awns • Syn: ↑freshwater cordgrass, ↑slough grass, ↑Spartina pectinmata • Hypernyms: ↑cordgrass, ↑cord grass * * * noun …

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  • 32calimeris — kəˈlimərə̇s noun Usage: capitalized Etymology: New Latin, from cali + Greek meris part; akin to Latin merēre to deserve more at merit : a small genus of Asiatic herbs (family Compositae) resembling the gen …

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  • 33climbing false buckwheat — noun : a slender twining annual (Polygonum scandens) characterized especially by thin scarious brown or rosy wings on the mature fruiting calyx …

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  • 34scariose — adjective see scarious …

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  • 35scar|i|ous — «SKAIR ee uhs», adjective. 1. Botany. thin, dry, and membranous: »the scarious bracts of many composites. 2. Zoology. scabby; scurfy. ╂[< New Latin scariosus; origin uncertain] …

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  • 36muscarious — muˈscarious, a. rare 0. [f. L. muscāri us (f. musca fly) + ous.] Of or belonging to flies. in Mayne Expos. Lex. in Syd. Soc. Lex …

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