florida : Idioms & Phrases

• noun capital of the state of Florida; located in northern Florida
  Tallahassee.
  

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• noun deciduous tree; celebrated for its large white or pink bracts and stunning autumn color that is followed by red berries
  eastern flowering dogwood; common white dogwood.
  

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• noun a waterway used by small boats to travel between the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico through Lake Okeechobee and the Caloosahatchee_Canal and the Caloosahatchee River
  Okeechobee Waterway.
  

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• noun small tough woody zamia of Florida and West Indies and Cuba; roots and half-buried stems yield an arrowroot
  Zamia pumila; coontie; Seminole bread.
  

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• noun the annual woody vine of Asia having long clusters of purplish flowers and densely hairy pods; cultivated in southern United States for green manure and grazing
  Bengal bean; Benghal bean; cowage; Mucuna pruriens utilis; Stizolobium deeringiana; velvet bean; Mucuna deeringiana; Mucuna aterrima.
  

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Flor"i*da bean"

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1. (Bot.) (a) The large, roundish, flattened seed of Mucuna urens. See under Bean. (b) One of the very large seeds of the Entada scandens.

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• noun North American dark bluish-grey gallinule
  Gallinula chloropus cachinnans.
  

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• noun a coral reef off the southern coast of Florida
  cay; key.
  

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• noun found in coastal waters New England to Brazil except clear waters of West Indies
  Trachinotus carolinus.
  

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• noun occurs widely in Florida
  Selaginella eatonii.
  

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• noun found from the northern Gulf of Mexico to Brazil
  Mustelus norrisi.
  

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• noun a strangler tree native to southern Florida and West Indies; begins as an epiphyte eventually developing many thick aerial roots and covering enormous areas
  wild fig; Ficus aurea; strangler fig; golden fig.
  

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• noun common epiphytic or sometimes terrestrial fern having pale yellow-green strap-shaped leaves; Florida to West Indies and Mexico and south to Uruguay
  hart's-tongue fern; cow-tongue fern.
  

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• noun of Florida wetlands
  round-tailed muskrat; Neofiber alleni.
  

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• noun small bushy yew of northern Florida having spreading branches and very narrow leaves
  Taxus floridana.
  

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• noun densely branched spiny tree of southwestern United States having showy yellow flowers and blue-green bark; sometimes placed in genus Cercidium
  Cercidium floridum; palo verde.
  

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• noun deciduous shrub widely cultivated for its white or pink or red flowers
  weigela.
  

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