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23 Cards in this Set
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barley
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a cereal grass with seeds used as food and in making malt liquors; also : its seed
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myrtle
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an evergreen shrub of southern Europe with shiny leaves, fragrant flowers, and black berries; also : periwinkle
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flax
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a blue-flowered plant grown for this fiber and its oily seeds
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cypress
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a scaly-leaved evergreen tree or shrub
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date palm
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Old World tropical tree with a tall unbranched stem topped by a crown of large leaves producing and edible fruit
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grape vine
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a plant whose stem requires support and which climbs (as by tendrils) or trails along the ground producing a juicy edible berry that is the chief source of wine
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lentil
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a Eurasian annual legume grown for its flat edible seeds and for fodder; also : its seed
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coriander
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an herb related to the carrot whose aromatic dried fruit used as a flavoring
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mustard
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an herb related to the cabbage whose seeds are used to make a pungent yellow powder used as a condiment or in medicine
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almond
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a small tree related to the peach producing an edible nutlike kernel as its fruit
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aurochs
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a nearly extinct European bison
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hyrax or conie or coney
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a small hoofed mammal of Africa and SW Asia that feeds on plants and lives in rocky areas
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asp or cobra
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any of several venomous snakes of Asia and Africa that when excited expand the skin of the neck into a broad hood
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ibex
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any of several Old World wild goats with large curved horns
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roebuck
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a male roe deer
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hart
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stag, an adult male of various large deer
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chamois
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a small goatlike antelope of Europe and the Caucasus region of Russia
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pygarg
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a variety of antelope found in the Syrian and Arabian deserts
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fallow deer
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a small European deer having a yellowish coat spotted with white in the summer
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gazelle
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a small swift graceful antelope
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hartebeest
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a large,swift South African antelope, now rare, having a reddish-brown coat with a yellow patch on each haunch, and long horns curved backward at the tips
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addax
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a large antelope of northern Africa and Arabia with long twisted horns
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wadi
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a streambed of southwest Asia and northern Africa that is dry except in the rainy season
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