aloe | (noun) succulent plants having rosettes of leaves usually with fiber like hemp and spikes of showy flowers; found chiefly in Africa | - |
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aloes | (noun) a purgative made from the leaves of aloe | Synonyms: bitter aloes |
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felloe | (noun) rim (or part of the rim) into which spokes are inserted | Synonyms: felly |
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floe | (noun) a flat mass of ice (smaller than an ice field) floating at sea | Synonyms: ice floe |
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loess | (noun) a fine-grained unstratified accumulation of clay and silt deposited by the wind | - |
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phloem | (noun) (botany) tissue that conducts synthesized food substances (e.g., from leaves) to parts where needed; consists primarily of sieve tubes | Synonyms: bast |
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pseudophloem | (noun) false phloem | - |
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sloe | (noun) small sour dark purple fruit of especially the Allegheny plum bush | - |
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(noun) a thorny Eurasian bush with plumlike fruits | Synonyms: blackthorn, Prunus spinosa |
(noun) wild plum of northeastern United States having dark purple fruits with yellow flesh | Synonyms: Alleghany plum, Allegheny plum, Prunus alleghaniensis |