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289 words in Plants & Creatures
Acacia
Nature“thorn tree”
Acanthus
Nature“thorn plant”
Aconite
Nature“without dust, without struggle (disputed)”
Aeonium
Nature“everlasting”
Aeroponics
Nature“air labour”
Agaric
Nature“the Agara fungus”
Agave
Nature“illustrious”
Agnathan
Nature“jawless”
Agroecology
Nature“study of the farm household”
Agronomy
Nature“the management of fields”
Allelopathy
Nature“suffering from one another”
Allosaurus
Nature“different lizard”
Alyssum
Nature“without madness”
Amaranth
Nature“unfading”
Amaryllis
Nature“the sparkling one”
Amoeba
Nature“change”
Ampelography
Nature“vine writing”
Amphibian
Nature“living a double life”
Amphibious
Nature“of both lives”
Amphioxus
Nature“sharp at both ends”
Amphipod
Nature“footed both ways”
Anemone
Nature“windflower”
Angiosperm
Nature“seed in a vessel”
Ankylosaurus
Nature“fused lizard”
Antelope
Nature“sense of the Greek word not recovered”
Anther
Nature“the flowering part”
Anthocyanin
Nature“flower blue”
Anthropoid
Nature“human-shaped”
Anthurium
Nature“tail flower”
Antirrhinum
Nature“like a snout”
Anuran
Nature“tailless”
Apatosaurus
Nature“deceptive lizard”
Arachnid
Nature“spider-creature”
Archaeopteryx
Nature“ancient wing”
Artemisia
Nature“the plant of Artemis”
Arthropod
Nature“jointed foot”
Artiodactyl
Nature“even-toed”
Ascidian
Nature“little wineskin”
Asp
Nature“shield-snake”
Asphodel
Nature“asphodel”
Aspidistra
Nature“shield star”
Aster
Nature“star”
Australopithecus
Nature“southern ape”
Autotroph
Nature“self-feeding”
Azalea
Nature“the dry one”
Baleen
Nature“whale”
Batrachian
Nature“of the frog”
Belemnite
Nature“dart stone”