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Home Dictionary Name: north american Page: 2Muskrat
A North American aquatic fur bearing rodent Ondatra zibethica formerly Fiber zibethicus It resembles a rat in color and having a long scaly tail but the tail is compressed the hind feet are webbed and the ears are concealed in the fur It has scent glands which secrete a substance having a strong odor of musk Called also musquash musk beaver ondatra and sometimes water rat...
Muskogees
A powerful tribe of North American Indians that formerly occupied the region of Georgia Florida and Alabama They constituted a large part of the Creek confederacy...
mockernut
A smooth barked North American hickory Carya tomentosa with 7 to 9 leaflets bearing a hard shelled edible nut which is far inferior to the true shagbark hickory nut...
Malaxis unifolia
A North American orchid having a solitary leaf and flowers with threadlike petals...
Maypop
The edible fruit of a passion flower especially that of the North American Passiflora incarnata an oval yellowish berry as large as a small apple...
mayapple
North American herb Podophyllum peltatum with poisonous root stock and an edible though insipid egg shaped yellowish fruit called also wild mandrake...
Odocoileus
A genus of North American deer...
Loups
The Pawnees a tribe of North American Indians whose principal totem was the wolf...
Locust tree
A large North American tree of the genus Robinia Robinia Pseudacacia producing large slender racemes of white fragrant papilionaceous flowers and often cultivated as an ornamental tree In England it is called acacia...
Liquidambar
A genus consisting of two species of tall trees having star shaped leaves and woody burlike fruit Liquidambar styraciflua is the North American sweet qum and Liquidambar Orientalis is found in Asia Minor...
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