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In cold climates, above the limits of cultivation; usually applied to high latitudes, inside the Arctic or Antarctic circles. Growing in cold climates, at higher latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere.  

Bending, like a bow.  

Becoming tree-like. Of tree-like habit.  

(Type of indument) cobwebby, tangled cottony, the hairs in several directions and tangling. Slender white loosely tangled hairs; cobwebby. The middle of the three membranes covering the brain. The middle of the three membranes covering the brain and spinal cord, which has a fine, almost cobweblike, texture. Between it and the pia mater within lies…

Land used for growing crops.  

Living in water. Growing in water. A plant able to grow with at least its base immersed in water. Aquatics come in many different forms, including submerged, emergent and floating. Gardeners use aquatics mostly in ponds and streams, but they are also grown in tanks by aquarium fanciers.  

Wingless.  

(Colour) orange-pink. Like Mozart, Edison, or Keats, apricots are precocious. The ancient Romans called this fruit malum praecoquum—malum meaning fruit and the Latin praecoquum literally meaning precooked but metaphorically meaning early ripened. Apricots and geniuses are therefore praecoquum—or in English precocious— because they ripen before their peers. In the first century, Greeks took part of…

Close to, very similar to. To place or bring objects close together.