THATCH TREE Synonyms

• United States journalist who reported on the October Revolution from Petrograd in 1917; founded the Communist Labor Party in America in 1919; is buried in the Kremlin in Moscow (1887-1920)

• tall woody perennial grasses with hollow slender stems especially of the genera Arundo and Phragmites

• a vibrator consisting of a thin strip of stiff material that vibrates to produce a tone when air streams over it

• United States physician who proved that yellow fever is transmitted by mosquitoes (1851-1902)

• a musical instrument that sounds by means of a vibrating reed

• grasslike or rushlike plant growing in wet places having solid stems, narrow grasslike leaves and spikelets of inconspicuous flowers

• plant fiber used e.g. for making baskets and hats or as fodder

• material consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of stem or leaves that have been separated from the seeds

• a variable yellow tint; dull yellow, often diluted with white

• a thin paper or plastic tube used to suck liquids into the mouth

• of a pale yellow color like straw; straw-colored

• cover or provide with or as if with straw

• spread by scattering ("straw" is archaic)

• all the plant life in a particular region or period

• the process of growth in plants

• an abnormal growth or excrescence (especially a warty excrescence on the valves of the heart)

• inactivity that is passive and monotonous, comparable to the inactivity of plant life

• small palm of southern Florida and West Indies closely resembling the silvertop palmetto

• small stocky fan palm of southern Florida and Cuba

• small palm of southern Florida and West Indies closely resembling the silvertop palmetto

• small palm of southern Florida and West Indies closely resembling the silvertop palmetto

• small palm of southern Florida and West Indies closely resembling the silvertop palmetto