Words starting with W

• wild parsnip — Noun – English ～ biennial weed in Europe and America having large pinnate leaves and yellow flowers and a bitter and somewhat poisonous root; the ancestor of cultivated parsnip
• wild cinnamon — Noun – English ～ West Indian tree; source of bay rum
• wild spinach — Noun – English ～ common weedy European plant introduced into North America; often used as a potherb
• wild tobacco — Noun – English ～ tobacco plant of South America and Mexico
• wild sensitive plant — Noun – English ～ tropical American plant having leaflets somewhat sensitive to the touch; sometimes placed in genus Cassia
• wild morning-glory — Noun – English ～ common Eurasian and American wild climber with pink flowers; sometimes placed in genus Convolvulus
• wild carrot — Noun – English ～ a widely naturalized Eurasian herb with finely cut foliage and white compound umbels of small white or yellowish flowers and thin yellowish roots
• wild red oat — Noun – English ～ Mediterranean oat held to be progenitor of modern cultivated oat
• wild pitch — Noun – English ～ an errant pitch that the catcher cannot be expected to catch and that allows a base runner to advance a base
• wild rye — Noun – English ～ any of several grasses of the genus Elymus
• wild mango tree — Noun – English ～ African tree with edible yellow fruit resembling mangos; valued for its oil-rich seed and hardy green wood that resists termites
• wild sage — Noun – English ～ Eurasian sage with blue flowers and foliage like verbena; naturalized in United States
• wild clary — Noun – English ～ Eurasian sage with blue flowers and foliage like verbena; naturalized in United States
• wild bean — Noun – English ～ a North American vine with fragrant blossoms and edible tubers; important food crop of Native Americans
• wild potato vine — Noun – English ～ tropical American prostrate or climbing herbaceous perennial having an enormous starchy root; sometimes held to be source of the sweet potato
• wild basil — Noun – English ～ aromatic herb having heads of small pink or whitish flowers; widely distributed in United States, Europe and Asia
• wild meadow lily — Noun – English ～ common lily of the eastern United States having nodding yellow or reddish flowers spotted with brown
• wild plum — Noun – English ～ fruit of the wild plum of southern United States
• wild sarsparilla — Noun – English ～ common perennial herb having aromatic roots used as a substitute for sarsaparilla; central and eastern North America
• wild hollyhock — Noun – English ～ a rare mallow found only in Illinois resembling the common hollyhock and having pale rose-mauve flowers; sometimes placed in genus Sphaeralcea

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