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Subjects term Scope note Archival description count People & Organisations count
Dioscorea Plum. ex L.

Use for: yams

  • A genus of mostly tropical twining herbs (family Dioscoreaceae) including the yams and having net-veined leaves and small dioecious flowers
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Dioscoreaceae R.Br. (1)
  • 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.
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Dracocephalum L.

Use for: dragonhead

  • A genus of plants in the Lamiaceae family. Native to temperate Eurasia, with the exception of one species, the American dragonhead (Dracocephalum parviflorum), which is native to North America. Several species are grown as ornamentals for their attractive flowers.
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Dutch Elm Disease

Use for: Elm blight

  • A widespread fungoid killer of elms (Ulmus species) and certain other trees, first described in the Netherlands. Spread by bark beetles, the disease has decimated elm populations throughout much of Europe and North America.
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dye plants
  • Natural dyes. Colours extracted from plants.
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East Lothian Antiquarian and Field Naturalist Society 1 0
elephant
  • 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.
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Elgin Botanic Garden, New York
  • 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.
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Ericaceae Durande (1)
  • 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.
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Eritrichium Schrad. ex Gaudin
  • A genus of flowering plants in the family Boraginaceae.
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