Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (1870–1938). Roget’s International Thesaurus. 1922.
Class III. Words Relating to MatterSection III. Organic Matter
1. Vitality
2. Special Vitality
367. Vegetable.
organism, plant, tree, shrub, bush, creeper, vine; herb, seedling, plantlet, exotic, annual, perennial, biennial, triennial; legume, pulse, vetch, greens; asparagus (vegetables) [See Food].
FOLIAGE, leafage, verdure, foliation, frondescence [rare]; prefoliation, vernation; branch, bough, ramage, stem, tigella or tigelle or tigellum or tigellus; leaf, spray, leaflet, frond, foliole, bract, bractlet, bracteole, cotyledon, pad [U. S.], flag, petal, needle, sepal; spray [See Part]; petiole, petiolule, bine; shoot, tendril.
FLOWER, blossom, bud, burgeon, blow, blowth [rare]; floweret, floret, floscule, flowering plant; inflorescence, flowerage.
TREE, sapling, seedling, stand, pollard, dryad [fig.]; oak, elm, beech, birch, timber tree, pine, palm, spruce, fir, hemlock, yew, larch, cedar, savin or savine, juniper, chestnut, maple, alder, ash, myrtle, magnolia, walnut, olive, poplar, willow, linden, lime; apple (fruit trees) [See Food]; arboretum [See Agriculture].
banyan, teak, acacia, deodar, pipal or pipal tree; fig tree, eucalyptus, gum tree.
WOODLANDS, virgin forest, forest primeval, forest, wood, timberland, timber, wood lot; hurst, frith, holt [poetic or dial.], weald, wold [obs.], park, chase [Eng.], greenwood, grove, copse, coppice, bocage [F.], tope [India], clump of trees, thicket, spinet [obs.], spinney [Eng.], bosk, chaparral, ceja [Texas], motte [local, U. S.]; jungle, bush.
UNDERGROWTH, underwood, brushwood, brake, “the mid-forest brake” [Keats], boscage, scrub, palmetto barrens, bosch [Dutch]; heath, heather, fern, bracken, furze, gorse, whin, broom, genista, sedge, rush, bulrush, bamboo; weed, moss, foggage [Scot.], lichen, Iceland moss, mushroom, toadstool, fungus; turf, turbary, mold or mould.
GRASS, fog, second growth, second crop; herbage.
alfalfa, lucern or lucerne, alfilaria, clover, bent or bent grass, timothy, redtop or English grass, switch grass or black bent, blue grass, Kentucky blue grass, ribbon grass, meadow grass, spear grass, wire grass, blue joint, crab grass, bunch grass, meadow fescue, meadow foxtail, grama or mesquite grass, gama or sesame grass, sheep’s fescue; cereal, wheat, barley, buckwheat, maize or Indian corn, oats, rice, rye.
GRASSLAND, greensward, green, lawn, sward, common, maidan [India], mead, meadow, pasture, pasturage, prairie, pampas, steppe, llano, savanna, campo, plain, field, campus [U. S.].
SEAWEED, alga (pl. algæ), fucus, fucoid, conferva (pl. confervæ), confervoid, wrack, dulse, kelp, rockweed, sea lettuce, gulfweed, sargasso, sargassum; plankton, benthos; Sargasso Sea.
NATIVE, domestic, indigenous, native-grown, home-grown.
ALGAL, fucoid, confervoid; planktonic, benthonic.