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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bawdily means: in a bawdy manner

blue vitriol means: hydrated blue crystalline form of copper sulfate

c. d. gibson means: United States illustrator remembered for his creation of the `Gibson girl' (1867-1944)

disorganisation means: the disturbance of a systematic arrangement causing disorder and confusion

disorganisation means: a condition in which an orderly system has been disrupted

equus asinus means: domestic beast of burden descended from the African wild ass; patient but stubborn

equus asinus means: a wild ass of Africa

hemolytic means: relating to or involving or causing hemolysis

indecent means: offensive to good taste especially in sexual matters

indecent means: offending against sexual mores in conduct or appearance

indecent means: not in keeping with accepted standards of what is right or proper in polite society

katsura tree means: rapidly growing deciduous tree of low mountainsides of China and Japan; grown as an ornamental for its dark blue-green candy-scented foliage that becomes yellow to scarlet in autumn

kongo means: the Bantu language spoken by the Kongo living in the tropical forests of Zaire and Congo and Angola

lexical semantics means: the branch of semantics that studies the meanings and relations of words

lysimachia nemorum means: trailing European evergreen with yellow flowers

ninkharsag means: the great mother goddess; worshipped also as Aruru and Mama and Nintu

ornate means: marked by elaborate rhetoric and elaborated with decorative details

parking lot means: a lot where cars are parked

port jackson fig means: Australian tree resembling the banyan often planted for ornament; introduced into South Africa for brushwood

robert ranke graves means: English writer known for his interest in mythology and in the classics (1895-1985)