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  • 1girdle — I. n. Band (for the waist), belt, cincture, cestus. II. v. a. 1. Gird, bind round. 2. Environ, encompass, surround, enclose, embrace, girt, shut in. 3. [U. S.] Cut round, incise about, cut a girth round the bark of …

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  • 2angiosperm — /an jee euh sperrm /, n. Bot. a plant having its seeds enclosed in an ovary; a flowering plant. Cf. gymnosperm. [ANGIO + SPERM] * * * ▪ plant Introduction       any member of the more than 300,000 species of flowering plants (division Anthophyta) …

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  • 3Tree — For other uses, see Tree (disambiguation). Trees on a mountain in northern Utah during early autumn …

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  • 4performing arts — arts or skills that require public performance, as acting, singing, or dancing. [1945 50] * * * ▪ 2009 Introduction Music Classical.       The last vestiges of the Cold War seemed to thaw for a moment on Feb. 26, 2008, when the unfamiliar strains …

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  • 5tree — treelike, adj. /tree/, n., v., treed, treeing. n. 1. a plant having a permanently woody main stem or trunk, ordinarily growing to a considerable height, and usually developing branches at some distance from the ground. 2. any of various shrubs,… …

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  • 6Tree — /tree/, n. Sir Herbert Beerbohm /bear bohm/, (Herbert Beerbohm), 1853 1917, English actor and theater manager; brother of Max Beerbohm. * * * I Woody perennial plant. Most trees have a single self supporting trunk containing woody tissues, and in …

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  • 7Northern Red Oak — Taxobox name = Northern Red Oak status = G5 status system = TNC status ref =Citation last =NatureServe first = author link = last2 = first2 = author2 link = contribution = Quercus rubra title = NatureServe Explorer: An online encyclopedia of life …

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  • 8Quercus rubra — An old Northen Red Oak specimen Conservation status …

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  • 9Sequoiadendron — Taxobox name = Sequoiadendron giganteum status = VU status system = iucn2.3 image width = 240px image caption = The Grizzly Giant tree in the Mariposa Grove, Yosemite National Park regnum = Plantae divisio = Pinophyta classis = Pinopsida ordo =… …

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  • 10girdle — girdle1 noun 1》 a belt or cord worn round the waist. 2》 a woman s elasticated corset extending from waist to thigh. 3》 the part of a cut gem dividing the crown from the base and embraced by the setting. 4》 a ring made around a tree by removing… …

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