Words starting with h

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habeas corpus means: a writ ordering a prisoner to be brought before a judge

habenaria means: chiefly terrestrial orchids with tubers or fleshy roots often having long slender spurs and petals and lip lobes; includes species formerly placed in genus Gymnadeniopsis

habenaria albiflora means: bog orchid of eastern North America with a spike of pure white fringed flowers

habenaria bifolia means: south European orchid having fragrant greenish-white flowers; sometimes placed in genus Habenaria

habenaria chlorantha means: south European orchid with dark green flowers that are larger and less fragrant than Platanthera bifolia; sometimes placed in genus Habenaria

habenaria dilatata means: orchid with spikes of many fragrant white flowers on erect leafy stems; of wet or boggy ground through most of the West and northern North America

habenaria elegans means: slender inland rein orchid similar to coastal rein orchid but with pale greenish-yellow flowers

habenaria fimbriata means: North American orchid similar to Habenaria psycodes with larger paler flowers

habenaria greenei means: stout orchid of central California to northern Washington having racemes of white fragrant bilaterally symmetrical flowers

habenaria hookeri means: a long-spurred orchid with base leaves and petals converging under the upper sepal

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affair means: a vaguely specified concern

affair means: a vaguely specified social event

affair means: a usually secretive or illicit sexual relationship

anconeous muscle means: the muscle that extends the forearm and abducts the ulna in pronation of the wrist

blinks means: small Indian lettuce of northern regions

caryatid means: a supporting column carved in the shape of a person

chauna means: crested screamers

colorimetrical means: of or relating to colorimetry

commination means: a threat of divine punishment or vengeance

commination means: prayers proclaiming God's anger against sinners; read in the Church of England on Ash Wednesday

condonation means: a pardon by treating the offender as if the offense had not occurred

engross means: consume all of one's attention or time

engross means: devote (oneself) fully to

floridness means: extravagant elaborateness

genus microcentrum means: katydids

muhammedan means: a follower of Mohammed

pergamum means: an ancient Greek city located in the western part of what is now modern Turkey; the technique of preparing sheepskins as parchment was developed here

prunus mume means: Japanese ornamental tree with fragrant white or pink blossoms and small yellow fruits

rock cress means: any of several rock-loving cresses of the genus Arabis

seeder means: a kitchen utensil that removes seeds from fruit