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Equivalent number, the particular quantity of any substance 



required to combine with or saturate another substance. 

 Emanate, to issue or flow from. 

 Electric, a substance capable of giving off electricity. 

 Electrical repulsion, that property which causes bodies in the 



same state of electrical excitement to separate: opposite 



attraction. 



Exude, to run out or issue from. 

 Equilibrium, balance of forces or properties. 

 Epiphytes, plants growing- upon the trunk and branches of 



other plants and deriving nourishment mostly from the air. 

 Epidermis outside skin or bark. 

 Excrete, to eject or throw out. 

 Embryo, the germ of a plant or animal. 

 Elliptical, an oval figure with pointed ends. 

 Exogens, plants which grow by layers on the outside. 

 Exhalation, breathing out, giving off, emitting. 

 Evolution, emission, giving off, discharging. 

 Element, a component part, first principle. 

 Equator, an imaginary line dividing the earth into two halves ; 



the equinoctial line. 

 Effloresce, to become a dry powder. 

 Eremacausis, slow combustion or decay. 

 Evaporation, becoming volatile, flying off with the air, drying 



up. 



Escarpment, a steep ledge of rocks. 

 Eurite, a white mineral. 

 Eject, to throw out, discharge. 

 Effervesce, to foam, bubble, ferment. 

 Fasicle, a small bundle. 



Flora, the goddess of flowers, a flower or book of flowers. 

 Functional, pertaining to the office or use of a part of any 



organism. 

 Filament, the slender, thread-like part of the stamen. 



