sweet shaggytuft
A perennial plant with small lavender-colored flowers, native to the Americas, of species Stenandrium dulce.

sweet-gum
Alternative form of sweet gum.

sweetflag
Alternative form of sweet flag.

sweetgale
Alternative form of sweet gale.

sweetgales
plural of sweetgale

sweetgum
Alternative form of sweet gum.

sweetgums
plural of sweetgum

sweetleaf
Any plant of the genus Stevia, from which stevia is extracted.
Sauropus androgynus, a plant of the family Phyllanthaceae whose leaves may be used as a potherb.
Symplocos tinctoria, an evergreen shrub or small tree in the southeastern United States.
Monarda fistulosa, wild bergamot, a medicinal and ornamental herb.
Cannabis.

sweetleafs
plural of sweetleaf

sweetroot
liquorice
western sweet cicely, western sweetroot (Osmorhiza occidentalis)

sweetroots
plural of sweetroot

sweetshrub
A deciduous flowering plant of the genus Calycanthus with aromatic bark and flowers.

sweetshrubs
plural of sweetshrub

synnema
A large, erect reproductive structure in some fungi, bearing compact conidiophores that fuse together to form a strand with conidia at the end or on the edges.

synnemata
plural of synnema

tabanuco
Synonym of candlewood (“the tree Dacryodes excelsa”).

tabanucos
plural of tabanuco

tabebuia
Any of the plants in the genus Tabebuia.

tabebuias
plural of tabebuia

tabonuco
Alternative form of tabanuco (“candlewood tree”).

tabonucos
plural of tabonuco

tackweed
Synonym of puncture vine.

taenidium
The chitinous fibre forming the spiral thread of the tracheae of insects

talinum
Any of the genus Talinum of herbaceous succulent plants, some with edible leaves.

talinums
plural of talinum

tamanu
A tree (Calophyllum inophyllum), widely distributed in the Pacific islands, that yields a resin and a bitter oil (tamanol).

tamanus
plural of tamanu

tampala
The plant Amaranthus tricolor when used as a vegetable.

tanglefoot
Low-quality whiskey, especially home-brewed.
A sticky substance put at the base of trees or other plants to trap insects and prevent them from climbing up.

tarvine
The flowering plant Boerhavia diffusa.

tasselweed
Ruppia spp., a grass-like aquatic herb

tasselweeds
plural of tasselweed

tawhiwhi
Synonym of kohuhu (“the tree Pittosporum tenuifolium”).

tea bush
Synonym of tea shrub.

tea plant
The bush Camellia sinensis, the leaves of which are picked, dried and used to make the beverage tea.

terminalia
The hindmost segments of the abdomen of an insect, modified for reproduction.

tibouchina
Any of various species of myrtalean trees of the genus Tibouchina, native to tropical America, many of which are used as garden ornamentals.

tibouchinas
plural of tibouchina

toothwort
Any of several species of flowering plants of the genus Lathraea.
Any of the species of plants in subgenus Cardamine subg. Dentaria, formerly genus Dentaria.

toothworts
plural of toothwort

touch-me-not
Any of several (not closely related) plants which react when touched.
Any of several (not closely related) plants which react when touched.
Any of several (not closely related) plants which react when touched.
Lupus.

touch-me-nots
plural of touch-me-not

tourist tree
The gumbo limbo, Bursera simaruba.

tournsol
A violet-blue dye got from the plant Chrozophora tinctoria

townhall clock
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see townhall, clock.
A plant of species Adoxa moschatellina.

tree spinach
Synonym of chaya (“leafy perennial Mexican shrub used as a leafy vegetable”).
Chenopodium giganteum

tricordia
A twelve-stringed variant on the mandolin.

tricordias
plural of tricordia

trillium
Any of several perennial flowering plants, of the genus Trillium, having flowers with three petals

trilliums
plural of trillium

tropical almond
The Indian almond, Terminalia catappa.

trumpet creeper
A large flowering vine, the trumpet vine, Campsis radicans

trumpet trees
plural of trumpet tree

trumpet vine
A North American vine grown for its abundant trumpet-shaped flowers, Campsis radicans

trumpet vines
plural of trumpet vine

trumpetbush
Any of a number of shrubs or small trees in the genus Tecoma.

trumpetbushes
plural of trumpetbush

tschat
Alternative spelling of khat.

tupelo
Any of several trees of the genus Nyssa which grow in swampy regions on the eastern, southern and midwestern United States.
Any of several trees of the genus Nyssa which grow in swampy regions on the eastern, southern and midwestern United States.

tupelo-gum
Synonym of large tupelo.

tupelos
plural of tupelo

turnipwood
The tree Akania bidwillii.

turnipwoods
plural of turnipwood

turnsol
Alternative form of turnsole.

turnsole
A heliotrope; so named because its flowers are supposed to turn toward the sun.
A sunflower.
A sun spurge (Euphorbia helioscopia).
The euphorbiaceous plant Chrozophora tinctoria.
A purple dye obtained from Chrozophora tinctoria.
litmus

turnsoles
plural of turnsole

turnsols
plural of turnsol

turtleweed
A flowering plant of the genus Batis (Batis maritima).

udo
Japanese spikenard

umbrellaworts
plural of umbrellawort

ungula
A hoof, claw, or talon.
A section of a cylinder, cone, or other solid of revolution, cut off by a plane oblique to the base; so called from its resemblance to the hoof of a horse.
Alternative form of unguis.
A surgical instrument for use in removing a dead fetus.

ungulae
plural of ungula

unicorn root
A flowering plant of the genus Aletris.

varia
Alternative form of baria (“Greek diacritic”).

veratrum
Any of various poisonous herbs of the genus Veratrum

veratrums
plural of veratrum

verbena
Verbena, a genus of herbaceous plants of which several species are extensively cultivated for the great beauty of their flowers; vervain.

verbenas
plural of verbena

vervine
Alternative form of vervain.

viburna
plural of viburnum

viburnum
Any of many shrubs and trees, of the genus Viburnum, native to the Northern Hemisphere that have showy clusters of flowers.

viburnums
plural of viburnum

violet tree
Securidaca longipedunculata, a tree mainly found in tropical and subtropical Africa.

vitellaria
AA shea tree (Vitellaria paradoxa)

vitellarias
plural of vitellaria

wahoo
Acanthocybium solandri, a tropical and subtropical game fish.

wahoos
plural of wahoo

wakerobin
Any of several perennial flowering plants, of the genus Trillium, having flowers with three petals.
Any of several perennial flowering plants, of the genus Trillium, having flowers with three petals.
Cuckoopint, Arum maculatum.

wakerobins
plural of wakerobin

walewort
Alternative form of wallwort.

wallwort
danewort

washerwife
A washerwoman.

washerwoman
A woman who washes people's laundry.
A double drummer, large cicada of Australia, of species Thopha saccata.
A weedy plant of the Americas (Alternanthera caracasana).

washerwomen
plural of washerwoman

water blinks
plural of water blink

water gum
A plant, Tristaniopsis laurina.

water milfoil
Any of several submerged aquatic plants of the genus Myriophyllum.

water pennywort
A plant of Hydrocotyle

water tupelo
A tree of species Nyssa aquatica.

water-shield
An aquatic herbaceous flowering plant widely distributed in North America, the West Indies, northern South America, East Asia, Australia, the Indian Subcontinent, and parts of Africa (Brasenia schreberi).
An aquatic perennial herbaceous plant native to North and South America (Cabomba caroliniana).

water-shields
plural of water-shield

waterblinks
plural of waterblink

waterleaves
plural of waterleaf
plural of waterleave

watermilfoil
Any of the freshwater plants of the genus Myriophyllum.

watermilfoils
plural of watermilfoil

watershield
Alternative form of water-shield.

watershields
plural of watershield

waterwort
Any of the family Elatinaceae of aquatic plants, especially one in the genus Elatine.

waterworts
plural of waterwort

wax myrtle
An evergreen bayberry, especially Morella cerifera (syn. Myrica cerifera) of the southern U.S., the wax covering its nutlets being used for making scented candles.