Term: animatism: the attribution of consciousness and personality to natural phenomena such as thunderstorms and earthquakes and to objects such as plants and stones
Broader: attribution: assigning to a cause or source | Unrelated: proprietary colony: a colony given to a proprietor to govern (in 17th century)
Broader: attribution: assigning to a cause or source | Unrelated: beefsteak begonia: rhizomatous begonia with roundish fleshy leaves reddish colored beneath
Broader: attribution: assigning to a cause or source | Unrelated: shrublet: dwarf shrub
Broader: attribution: assigning to a cause or source | Unrelated: planking: the work of covering an area with planks
Broader: attribution: assigning to a cause or source | Unrelated: thomism: the comprehensive theological doctrine created by Saint Thomas Aquinas in the 13th century and still taught by the Dominicans
Broader: attribution: assigning to a cause or source | Unrelated: barium: a soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group; found in barite
Broader: attribution: assigning to a cause or source | Unrelated: marsh elder: any of various coarse shrubby plants of the genus Iva with small greenish flowers; common in moist areas (as coastal salt marshes) of eastern and central North America
Broader: attribution: assigning to a cause or source | Unrelated: selenology: the branch of astronomy that deals with the moon
Broader: attribution: assigning to a cause or source | Unrelated: plague: a serious (sometimes fatal) infection of rodents caused by Yersinia pestis and accidentally transmitted to humans by the bite of a flea that has bitten an infected animal
Broader: attribution: assigning to a cause or source | Unrelated: urceole: a vessel that holds water for washing the hands