Term: whitlowwort: any of various low-growing tufted plants of the genus Paronychia having tiny greenish flowers and usually whorled leaves; widespread throughout warm regions of both Old and New Worlds; formerly thought to cure whitlows (suppurative infections around a fingernail)
Broader: vegetation: all the plant life in a particular region or period | Unrelated: antibiosis: an association between organisms that is harmful to one of them or between organisms and a metabolic product of another
Broader: vegetation: all the plant life in a particular region or period | Unrelated: tastebud: an oval sensory end organ on the surface of the tongue
Broader: vegetation: all the plant life in a particular region or period | Unrelated: atomic theory: a theory of the structure of the atom
Broader: vegetation: all the plant life in a particular region or period | Unrelated: romanesque: a style of architecture developed in Italy and western Europe between the Roman and the Gothic styles after 1000 AD; characterized by round arches and vaults and by the substitution of piers for columns and profuse ornament and arcades
Broader: vegetation: all the plant life in a particular region or period | Unrelated: actinomycetaceae: filamentous anaerobic bacteria
Broader: vegetation: all the plant life in a particular region or period | Unrelated: perciformes: one of the largest natural groups of fishes of both marine and fresh water: true perches; basses; tuna
Broader: vegetation: all the plant life in a particular region or period | Unrelated: quotation mark: a punctuation mark used to attribute the enclosed text to someone else
Broader: vegetation: all the plant life in a particular region or period | Unrelated: genus teredo: type genus of the family Teredinidae
Broader: vegetation: all the plant life in a particular region or period | Unrelated: rock python: very large python of tropical and southern Africa
Broader: vegetation: all the plant life in a particular region or period | Unrelated: oblate: a lay person dedicated to religious work or the religious life