Table of Contents
83 relations: Alaska, Alder, Antheraea polyphemus, Anthocyanin, Antioxidant, Argali, Aronia, Astringent, Automeris io, Baja California, Basal shoot, Callosamia promethea, Carl Linnaeus, Caterpillar, Cattle, Celastrina ladon, Ceratomia amyntor, Chihuahua (state), Choke pear (plant), Coahuila, Cornus sericea, Crown Publishing Group, Cultivar, Cyanide, Deer, Drupe, Durango, Eacles imperialis, Elk, Fitzhenry & Whiteside, Flower, Glossary of leaf morphology, Goat, Great Plains, Habit (biology), Hemaris thysbe, Horse, Hyalophora cecropia, Hyalophora gloveri, John Hoeven, Kinnikinnick, Leaf, Lepidoptera, Limenitis arthemis, Limenitis weidemeyerii, Manitoba, Megalopyge crispata, Moose, Norman Maclean, North Dakota, ... Expand index (33 more) »
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Alaska
Alaska is a non-contiguous U.S. state on the northwest extremity of North America.
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Alder
Alders are trees that compose the genus Alnus in the birch family Betulaceae.
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Antheraea polyphemus
Antheraea polyphemus, the Polyphemus moth, is a North American member of the family Saturniidae, the giant silk moths.
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Anthocyanin
Anthocyanins, also called anthocyans, are water-soluble vacuolar pigments that, depending on their pH, may appear red, purple, blue, or black.
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Antioxidant
Antioxidants are compounds that inhibit oxidation (usually occurring as autoxidation), a chemical reaction that can produce free radicals.
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Argali
The argali (Ovis ammon), also known as the mountain sheep, is a wild sheep that roams the highlands of western East Asia, the Himalayas, Tibet, and the Altai Mountains.
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Aronia
Aronia is a genus of deciduous shrubs, the chokeberries, in the family Rosaceae native to eastern North America and most commonly found in wet woods and swamps.
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Astringent
An astringent (sometimes called adstringent) is a chemical that shrinks or constricts body tissues.
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Automeris io
Automeris io, the Io moth or peacock moth, is a colorful North American moth in the family Saturniidae.
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Baja California
Baja California ('Lower California'), officially Estado Libre y Soberano de Baja California (Free and Sovereign State of Baja California), is a state in Mexico.
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Basal shoot
Basal shoots, root sprouts, adventitious shoots, and suckers are words for various kinds of shoots that grow from adventitious buds on the base of a tree or shrub, or from adventitious buds on its roots.
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Callosamia promethea
Callosamia promethea, commonly known as the promethea silkmoth, is a member of the family Saturniidae, which contains approximately 1,300 species.
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Carl Linnaeus
Carl Linnaeus (23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné,Blunt (2004), p. 171.
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Caterpillar
Caterpillars are the larval stage of members of the order Lepidoptera (the insect order comprising butterflies and moths).
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Cattle
Cattle (Bos taurus) are large, domesticated, bovid ungulates widely kept as livestock. They are prominent modern members of the subfamily Bovinae and the most widespread species of the genus Bos. Mature female cattle are called cows and mature male cattle are bulls. Young female cattle are called heifers, young male cattle are oxen or bullocks, and castrated male cattle are known as steers.
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Celastrina ladon
Celastrina ladon, the spring azure or echo blue, is a butterfly of the family Lycaenidae.
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Ceratomia amyntor
Ceratomia amyntor, the elm sphinx or four-horned sphinx, is a North American moth in the family Sphingidae.
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Chihuahua (state)
Chihuahua, officially the Estado Libre y Soberano de Chihuahua (Free and Sovereign State of Chihuahua), is one of the 31 states which, along with Mexico City, comprise the 32 federal entities of Mexico.
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Choke pear (plant)
A choke pear or chocky-pear is an astringent fruit.
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Coahuila
Coahuila, formally Coahuila de Zaragoza (Lipan: Nacika), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Coahuila de Zaragoza (Estado Libre y Soberano de Coahuila de Zaragoza), is one of the 32 states of Mexico.
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Cornus sericea
Cornus sericea, the red osier or red-osier dogwood, is a species of flowering plant in the family Cornaceae, native to much of North America.
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Crown Publishing Group
The Crown Publishing Group is a subsidiary of Penguin Random House that publishes across several fiction and non-fiction categories.
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Cultivar
A cultivar is a kind of cultivated plant that people have selected for desired traits and which retains those traits when propagated.
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Cyanide
In chemistry, cyanide is a chemical compound that contains a functional group.
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Deer
A deer (deer) or true deer is a hoofed ruminant ungulate of the family Cervidae (informally the deer family).
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Drupe
In botany, a drupe (or stone fruit) is an indehiscent type of fruit in which an outer fleshy part (exocarp, or skin, and mesocarp, or flesh) surrounds a single shell (the pip (UK), pit (US), stone, or pyrena) of hardened endocarp with a seed (kernel) inside. Prunus virginiana and drupe are Edible nuts and seeds.
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Durango
Durango, officially named Estado Libre y Soberano de Durango (Free and Sovereign State of Durango; Tepehuán: Korian; Nahuatl: Tepēhuahcān), is one of the 31 states which make up the 32 Federal Entities of Mexico, situated in the northwest portion of the country.
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Eacles imperialis
Eacles imperialis, the imperial moth, is a member of the family Saturniidae and subfamily Ceratocampinae.
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Elk
The elk (elk or elks; Cervus canadensis), or wapiti, is the second largest species within the deer family, Cervidae, and one of the largest terrestrial mammals in its native range of North America and Central and East Asia.
Fitzhenry & Whiteside
Fitzhenry & Whiteside is a Canadian book publishing and distribution company, located in Leaside, Ontario.
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Flower
A flower, also known as a bloom or blossom, is the reproductive structure found in flowering plants (plants of the division Angiospermae).
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Glossary of leaf morphology
The following terms are used to describe leaf morphology in the description and taxonomy of plants.
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Goat
The goat or domestic goat (Capra hircus) is a species of domesticated goat-antelope that is mostly kept as livestock.
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Great Plains
The Great Plains are a broad expanse of flatland in North America.
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Habit (biology)
Habit, equivalent to habitus in some applications in biology, refers variously to aspects of behaviour or structure, as follows.
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Hemaris thysbe
Hemaris thysbe, the hummingbird clearwing, is a moth of the family Sphingidae (hawkmoths).
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Horse
The horse (Equus ferus caballus) is a domesticated, one-toed, hoofed mammal.
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Hyalophora cecropia
Hyalophora cecropia, the cecropia moth, is North America's largest native moth.
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Hyalophora gloveri
Hyalophora gloveri, or Glover's silkmoth, is a moth of the family Saturniidae.
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John Hoeven
John Henry Hoeven III (born March 13, 1957) is an American banker and politician serving as the senior U.S. senator from North Dakota, a seat he has held since 2011.
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Kinnikinnick
Kinnikinnick is a Native American and First Nations herbal smoking mixture, made from a traditional combination of leaves or barks.
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Leaf
A leaf (leaves) is a principal appendage of the stem of a vascular plant, usually borne laterally aboveground and specialized for photosynthesis.
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Lepidoptera
Lepidoptera or lepidopterans is an order of winged insects that includes butterflies and moths.
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Limenitis arthemis
Limenitis arthemis, the red-spotted purple or white admiral, is a North American butterfly species in the cosmopolitan genus Limenitis.
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Limenitis weidemeyerii
Limenitis weidemeyerii, or Weidemeyer's admiral, is a butterfly from the subfamily Nymphalinae, found in western North America.
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Manitoba
Manitoba is a province of Canada at the longitudinal centre of the country.
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Megalopyge crispata
Megalopyge crispata, the black-waved flannel moth, crinkled flannel moth or white flannel moth, is a moth of the Megalopygidae family.
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Moose
The moose ('moose'; used in North America) or elk ('elk' or 'elks'; used in Eurasia) (Alces alces) is the world's tallest, largest and heaviest extant species of deer and the only species in the genus Alces.
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Norman Maclean
Norman Fitzroy Maclean (December 23, 1902August 2, 1990) was an American professor at the University of Chicago who, following his retirement, became a major figure in American literature.
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North Dakota
North Dakota is a landlocked U.S. state in the Upper Midwest, named after the indigenous Dakota Sioux.
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Northern Rocky Mountains
The Northern Rocky Mountains, usually referred to as the Northern Rockies, are a subdivision of the Canadian Rockies comprising the northern half of the Canadian segment of the Rocky Mountains.
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Northwest Territories
The Northwest Territories (abbreviated NT or NWT; Territoires du Nord-Ouest; formerly North-West Territories) is a federal territory of Canada.
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Nuevo León
Nuevo León (English: New León), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Nuevo León (Spanish: Estado Libre y Soberano de Nuevo León) is a state in northeastern Mexico.
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Nunavut
Nunavut (ᓄᓇᕗᑦ) is the largest and northernmost territory of Canada.
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Paonias excaecatus
Paonias excaecata, the blinded sphinx, is a moth of the family Sphingidae.
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Paonias myops
Paonias myops, the small-eyed sphinx, is a moth of the family Sphingidae.
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Papilio glaucus
Papilio glaucus, the eastern tiger swallowtail, is a species of butterfly native to eastern North America.
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Pemmican
Pemmican (also pemican in older sources) is a mixture of tallow, dried meat, and sometimes dried berries.
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Pigment
A pigment is a powder used to add color or change visual appearance.
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Prunus maackii
Prunus maackii, commonly called the Manchurian cherry or Amur chokecherry, is a species of cherry native to Korea and both banks of the Amur River, in Manchuria in northeastern China, and Amur Oblast and Primorye in southeastern Russia. Prunus virginiana and Prunus maackii are bird cherries and Prunus.
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Prunus serotina
Prunus serotina, commonly called black cherry,. Prunus virginiana and Prunus serotina are bird cherries and Prunus.
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Prunus subg. Padus
Prunus subg. Prunus virginiana and Prunus subg. Padus are bird cherries and Prunus.
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Rabbit
Rabbits are small mammals in the family Leporidae (which also includes the hares), which is in the order Lagomorpha (which also includes pikas).
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Raceme
A raceme or racemoid is an unbranched, indeterminate type of inflorescence bearing flowers having short floral stalks along the shoots that bear the flowers.
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Rumen
The rumen, also known as a paunch, is the largest stomach compartment in ruminants and the larger part of the reticulorumen, which is the first chamber in the alimentary canal of ruminant animals.
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Samia cynthia
Samia cynthia, the ailanthus silkmoth, is a saturniid moth, used to produce silk fabric but not as domesticated as the silkworm, Bombyx mori.
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Saskatchewan
Saskatchewan is a province in Western Canada, bordered on the west by Alberta, on the north by the Northwest Territories, on the east by Manitoba, to the northeast by Nunavut, and to the south by the United States (Montana and North Dakota).
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Satyrium liparops
Satyrium liparops, the striped hairstreak, is a butterfly of the family Lycaenidae described by John Eatton Le Conte in 1833.
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Satyrium titus
Satyrium titus, the coral hairstreak, is a North American butterfly in the family Lycaenidae.
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Shrub
A shrub or bush is a small-to-medium-sized perennial woody plant.
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Smerinthus jamaicensis
Smerinthus jamaicensis, the twin-spotted sphinx, is a moth of the family Sphingidae.
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Sonora
Sonora, officially Estado Libre y Soberano de Sonora (Free and Sovereign State of Sonora), is one of the 31 states which, along with Mexico City, comprise the Federal Entities of Mexico.
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Southeastern United States
The Southeastern United States, also referred to as the American Southeast, the Southeast, or the South, is a geographical region of the United States located in the eastern portion of the Southern United States and the southern portion of the Eastern United States.
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Sterling Publishing
Sterling Publishing Company, Inc. is a publisher of a broad range of subject areas, with multiple imprints and more than 5,000 titles in print.
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Taiga
Taiga (p), also known as boreal forest or snow forest, is a biome characterized by coniferous forests consisting mostly of pines, spruces, and larches.
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Tent caterpillar
Tent caterpillars are moderately sized caterpillars, or moth larvae, belonging to the genus Malacosoma in the family Lasiocampidae.
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The Dakotas
The Dakotas, also known as simply Dakota, is a collective term for the U.S. states of North Dakota and South Dakota.
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The Mountaineers (club)
The Mountaineers is an alpine club in the US state of Washington.
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Tree
In botany, a tree is a perennial plant with an elongated stem, or trunk, usually supporting branches and leaves.
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University of Saskatchewan
The University of Saskatchewan (U of S, or USask) is a Canadian public research university, founded on March 19, 1907, and located on the east side of the South Saskatchewan River in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada.
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Utah
Utah is a landlocked state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States.
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Yukon
Yukon (formerly called the Yukon Territory and referred to as the Yukon) is the smallest and westernmost of Canada's three territories.
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Zacatecas
Zacatecas, officially the Free and Sovereign State of Zacatecas (Estado Libre y Soberano de Zacatecas), is one of the 31 states of Mexico.
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See also
Bird cherries
- Bird cherry
- Prunus bracteopadus
- Prunus buergeriana
- Prunus cornuta
- Prunus grayana
- Prunus maackii
- Prunus napaulensis
- Prunus obtusata
- Prunus padus
- Prunus perulata
- Prunus serotina
- Prunus ssiori
- Prunus stellipila
- Prunus subg. Padus
- Prunus virginiana
- Prunus wilsonii
References
Also known as Cerasus demissa, Cerasus virginica, Choke Cherry, Choke cherries, Chokecherries, Chokecherry, Common chokecherry, Padus demissa, Padus melanocarpa, Padus rubra, Padus virginiana, Prunus arguta, Prunus canadensis, Prunus demissa, Prunus densiflora, Prunus duerinckii, Prunus dumosa, Prunus fimbriata, Prunus melanocarpa, Prunus micrantha, Prunus montana, Prunus obovata, Prunus rubra, Prunus valida, Prunus virginalis, Prunus virginiana 'Schubert', Prunus virginica, Western choke cherry, Western chokecherry, Wild black chokecherry.