pea-plant

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• Pea

  ·noun ·see <<Peak>>, ·noun, 3. II. Pea ·noun The sliding weight on a steelyard. III. Pea ·noun A p...

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• Plant

  ·noun The sole of the foot. II. Plant ·noun A plan; an artifice; a swindle; a trick. III. Plant ·n...

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• plant

  The place in the house of the fence where stolen goods are secreted. Any place where stolen goods ar...

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• plant

  v. tr. and n. common in Australiafor to hide, and for the thing hidden away. As remarkedin the quot...

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• plant

  A stock of tools, &c. Also, the fixtures, machinery, &c., required to carry on a business. ...

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• Angola pea

  ·- A tropical plant (Cajanus indicus) and its edible seed, a kind of pulse; — so called from Angola...

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• Chick-pea

  ·noun A Small leguminous plant (Cicer arietinum) of Asia, Africa, and the south of Europe; the chich...

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• Cich-pea

  ·noun The chick-pea. ...

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• Pea-jacket

  ·noun A thick loose woolen jacket, or coat, much worn by sailors in cold weather. ...

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• coral pea

  n. another name for the Kennedya (q.v.). 1896. `The Melburnian,' Aug. 28, p. 53: «The trailing sc...

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• darling pea

  n. an Australian plant, Swainsonia galegifolia, R. Br., N.O. Leguminosae;i.q. Indigo Plant (q.v.). ...

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• flat pea

  n. a genus of Australian floweringplants, Platylobium, N.O. Leguminosae. 1793. `Transactions of Li...

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• glory pea

  See glory flower i.q. clianthus (q.v.). ...

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• heart-pea

  n. i.q. balloon-vine (q.v.). ...

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• pea, coral

  n. See coral pea. ...

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• pea, darling

  n. See darling pea. ...

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• pea, desert

  n. See Sturt's Desert Pea. ...

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• pea, flat

  n. See flat pea. ...

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• pea, glory

  n. another namefor the Clianthus (q.v.). ...

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• pea, heart

  n. i.q. balloon-vine (q.v.). ...

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• pea-nut

  The common name for the fruit of the arachis hypogea. It is also called the ground nut and earth nut...

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• pea-ballast

  A coarse fresh-water sand used by ships in the China trade for stowing tea-chests upon. ...

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• pea or p.-jacket

  A skirtless loose rough coat, made of Flushing or pilot cloth. ...

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• Air plant

  ·- A plant deriving its sustenance from the air alone; an <<Aerophyte>>. ...

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• Dove plant

  ·- A Central American orchid (Peristeria elata), having a flower stem five or six feet high, with nu...

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• Flax-plant

  ·noun A plant in new Zealand (Phormium tenax), allied to the lilies and aloes. The leaves are two in...

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• Host plant

  ·add. ·- A plant which aids, shelters, or protects another plant in its growth, as those which are u...

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• Ice plant

  ·- A plant (Mesembryanthemum crystallinum), sprinkled with pellucid, watery vesicles, which glisten ...

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• Plant-cane

  ·noun A stalk or shoot of sugar cane of the first growth from the cutting. The growth of the second ...

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• Plant-eating

  ·adj Eating, or subsisting on, plants; as, a plant-eating beetle. ...

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• Telegraph plant

  ·add. ·- An East Indian tick trefoil (Meibomia gyrans), whose lateral leaflets jerk up and down like...

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• Water plant

  ·- A plant that grows in water; an aquatic plant. ...

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• Wind-plant

  ·noun A <<Windflower>>. ...

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• butterfly-plant

  n. a small flowering plant, Utricularia dichotoma, Lab., N.O. Leutibularina. ...

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• caustic-plant

  or Caustic-Vine ,n. Sarcostemma australis, R. Br., N.O.Asclepiadea. Cattle and sheep are poisoned ...

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• coffee plant

  or Coffee Berry n. namegiven in Tasmania to the Tasmanian Native Holly (q.v.). ...

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• guitar plant

  a Tasmanian shrub, Lomatiatinctoria, R. Br., N.O. Proteaceae. ...

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• honey-plant

  n. name given in Tasmania to Richea scoparia Hook., N.O. Epacris. ...

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• ice-plant

  n. Tasmanian name for Tetragoniaimplexicoma, Hook., N.O. Ficoideae, B. Fl. Variousspecies of Tetrag...

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• ink-plant

  n. another name for the «toot,» a New Zealand shrub, Coriaria thymifolia, N.O.Coriarieae. Called In...

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• jelly-plant

  a sea-weed, Eucheuma speciosum,J. Agardh, N.O. Algae. 1889. J. H. Maiden, `Useful Native Plants,' p...

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• milk-plant

  n. i.q. Caustic Creeper (q.v.). ...

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• officer plant

  n. another name for Christmas-Bush (q.v.), so called «because of its brightred appearance.» (Maiden...

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• plant-caterpillar

  n. name given in Australasiato species of caterpillars which are attacked by spores ofcertain fungi...

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• trigger-plant

  n. i.q. Hairtrigger (q.v.) plant; called also Jack-in-a-box. ...

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• sturt's desert pea

  n. a beautiful creeper, Clianthus dampieri, Cunn., N.O. Leguminosae,which will only grow in very dr...

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• bird-catching plant

  n. a New Zealand shrub ortree, Pisonia brunoniana, Endl., N.O. Nyctagineae; Maori name, Parapara. ...

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