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• The yam family. Plants are herbaceous or woody vines and shrubs, distributed throughout tropical and warm temperate regions. Members of the family have thick, sometimes woody roots or tuber-like underground stems and net-veined, often heart-shaped leaves that sometimes are lobed. The small green or white flowers of most species are borne in clusters in the leaf axils. The fruit is a winged capsule or a berry.

Use for: yams

• A genus of mostly tropical twining herbs (family Dioscoreaceae) including the yams and having net-veined leaves and small dioecious flowers

Use for: larkspur

• A genus of herbaceous plants in the buttercup family (Ranunculaceae), many of which are grown for the floral industry and as ornamentals for their showy flower stalks.

• a branch of biology dealing with the structure, function, multiplication, pathology, and life history of cells

• a family of plants widely distributed, usually evergreen, coniferous trees and shrubs having small, flattened, scalelike or sometimes needle-like leaves and including the cypress, juniper, and arborvitae.

• a plant or plantlike organism (such as a fern, moss, alga, or fungus) reproducing by spores and not producing flowers or seed

• an armed police force organized on military lines but distinct from the regular army