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• a thickset, usually extremely large, nearly hairless, herbivorous mammal (family Elephantidae, the elephant family) that has a snout elongated into a muscular trunk and two incisors in the upper jaw developed especially in the male into long ivory tusks.

• The Elgin Botanic Garden, established in 1801 in New York City by Dr. David Hosack (1769–1835), was a systematic arrangement of plants for scientific and pedagogical purposes. It served as a garden for teaching botany and materia medica at both the medical school of Columbia College and the College of Physicians and Surgeons. It was located in the area that is now midtown Manhattan.

• A family of flowering plants, commonly known as the heath or heather family. Ericaceae is made up mostly of shrubs and small trees, and its members are widely distributed, extending into the subarctic and along mountain chains through the tropics.

• A genus of flowering plants in the family Boraginaceae.

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• A family of trees and shrubshaving the staminate flowers in cymose heads or drooping aments and pistillate flowers with an urn-shaped to oblong perianth that occur singly or in clusters and are succeeded by one-seeded nuts

• A genus of European and Asiatic annual plants (family Polygonaceae) having the achene much exceeding the perianth but otherwise resembling members of the genus Polygonum.

• class of nonflowering, herbaceous vascular plants that possess true roots, stems, and complex leaves and that reproduce by spores.