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- A hand tool for lifting loose material
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- A protective covering of rotting vegetable matter spread to reduce evaporation and soil erosion
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- Any of various chiefly fall-blooming herbs of the genus ___ with showy daisylike flowers
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- Any of numerous bulbous perennial herbs
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- Any of many shrubs of the genus Rosa that bear ___
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- Large-flowered garden plant derived chiefly from the wild ___ of Europe and having velvety petals
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- Any of various plants of the genus Syringa having large panicles of usually fragrant flowers
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- Any of numerous plants of the genus ___ native chiefly to tropical and South Africa having
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- The flower of a ___ plant
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- Large genus of flowering herbs of temperate regions
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- Any of numerous tropical or subtropical American plants of the genus ___ grown for their showy
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- Any of various ornamental climbing plants of the genus ___ usually having showy flowers
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- East Asian perennial having large reddish-orange black-spotted flowers with reflexed petals
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- A garden plant of the genus Antirrhinum having showy white or yellow or crimson flowers resembling
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- Plants with sword-shaped leaves and erect stalks bearing bright-colored flowers composed of three
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- Any of numerous perennial bulbous herbs having linear or broadly lanceolate leaves and usually
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