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  2. Glossary of botanical terms - Wikipedia

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    In liverworts of the order Marchantiales, a female gametophore: a specialized, stalked structure that bears the archegonia and the sporophytes. arctotoid In the Compositae, a style with a ring of sweeping hairs borne on the shaft of the style proximal to the style branches. areolate Having or being composed of areole s, as an areolate crustose ...

  3. Synonym (taxonomy) - Wikipedia

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    Although the basic principles are fairly similar, the treatment of synonyms in botanical nomenclature differs in detail and terminology from zoological nomenclature, where the correct name is included among synonyms, although as first among equals it is the "senior synonym": Synonyms in botany are equivalent to "junior synonyms" in zoology.

  4. Thesaurus - Wikipedia

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    A thesaurus (pl.: thesauri or thesauruses), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), [1] [2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms, sometimes simply as lists of synonyms and antonyms.

  5. Dictionary adds 'YOLO,' 'Splendiferous'

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  6. Semantic change - Wikipedia

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    Semantic change (also semantic shift, semantic progression, semantic development, or semantic drift) is a form of language change regarding the evolution of word usage—usually to the point that the modern meaning is radically different from the original usage.

  7. Zabrus silphoides - Wikipedia

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    Synonyms Zabrus dentipes Zimmermann, 1831 Zabrus silphoides is a species of ground beetle in the Iberozabrus subgenus that can be found in Portugal and Spain .

  8. Word order - Wikipedia

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    In linguistics, word order (also known as linear order) is the order of the syntactic constituents of a language. Word order typology studies it from a cross-linguistic perspective, and examines how languages employ different orders. Correlations between orders found in different syntactic sub-domains are also of interest.

  9. Cornus kousa - Wikipedia

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    [2] [4] Synonyms are Benthamia kousa and Cynoxylon kousa. [7] It is a plant native to East Asia including Korea , China and Japan . [ 2 ] [ 8 ] Widely cultivated as an ornamental, it is naturalized in New York State .