Words starting with s

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saccharomycetaceae means: family of fungi comprising the typical yeasts: reproduce by budding and ferment carbohydrates

saccharose means: a complex carbohydrate found in many plants and used as a sweetening agent

saccharum means: tall perennial reedlike grass originally of southeastern Asia: sugarcane

saccharum bengalense means: tough Asiatic grass whose culms are used for ropes and baskets

saccharum munja means: tough Asiatic grass whose culms are used for ropes and baskets

saccharum officinarum means: tall tropical southeast Asian grass having stout fibrous jointed stalks; sap is a chief source of sugar

sacco means: United States anarchist (born in Italy) who with Bartolomeo Vanzetti was convicted of murder and in spite of world-wide protest was executed (1891-1927)

sacculate means: formed with or having saclike expansions

sacculated means: formed with or having saclike expansions

saccule means: a small sac or pouch (especially the smaller chamber of the membranous labyrinth)

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alpine mouse-ear means: widespread in the Arctic and on mountains in Europe

antimony means: a metallic element having four allotropic forms; used in a wide variety of alloys; found in stibnite

bean-shaped means: having a shape resembling a bean

building means: the act of constructing something

building means: the commercial activity involved in repairing old structures or constructing new ones

building means: a structure that has a roof and walls and stands more or less permanently in one place

building means: the occupants of a building

celestial hierarchy means: the collective body of angels

coddled egg means: egg cooked briefly in the shell in gently boiling water

colubrid means: mostly harmless temperate-to-tropical terrestrial or arboreal or aquatic snakes

convene means: call together

convene means: meet formally

esocidae means: pikes; pickerels; muskellunges

gluey means: having the sticky properties of an adhesive

hybrid tuberous begonia means: any of numerous hybrid begonias having tuberous roots and variously colored flowers

hygrophorus purpurascens means: a fungus with a viscid purplish red cap and stalk; found under spruce and other conifers

nitella means: fragile branching stoneworts

rouge plant means: bushy houseplant having white to pale pink flowers followed by racemes of scarlet berries; tropical Americas

skirret means: an Asiatic herb cultivated in Europe for its sweet edible tuberous root

splinter means: a small thin sharp bit or wood or glass or metal