Eponyms

cookie-sized candy made of brown sugar and butter and pecans

robust east Asian clump-forming perennial herbs having racemose flowers: plantain lilies; sometimes placed in family Hostaceae

any of various shrubs and small trees of the genus Gardenia having large fragrant white or yellow flowers

any of various plants of the genus Zinnia cultivated for their variously and brightly colored flower heads

a member of the people inhabiting Samaria in biblical times

Scottish author noted for his biography of Samuel Johnson

comprises tropical American species usually placed in genus Masdevallia: diminutive plants having bizarre and often sinister-looking flowers with pendulous scapes and motile lips

any shrub or tree of the genus Magnolia

tropical American plant having poisonous milk and showy tapering usually scarlet petallike leaves surrounding small yellow flowers

sweet green or greenish-yellow variety of plum

Australian operatic soprano (1861-1931)

the basic unit of electric current adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites

a large raspberry-flavored fruit

any tree of the genus Macadamia

a single-reed woodwind with a conical bore

a metric unit of length equal to one ten billionth of a meter (or 0.0001 micron); used to specify wavelengths of electromagnetic radiation

any of numerous plants of the genus Begonia grown for their attractive glossy asymmetrical leaves and colorful flowers in usually terminal cymes or racemes

Apache chieftain who raided the white settlers in the Southwest as resistance to being confined to a reservation (1829-1909)

the fictional Swiss scientist who was the protagonist in a gothic novel by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley; he created a monster from parts of corpses

a symbol for love in the form of a cherubic naked boy with wings and a bow and arrow

any of various early blooming oleaceous shrubs of the genus Forsythia; native to eastern Asia and southern Europe but widely cultivated for their branches of bright yellow bell-shaped flowers

treat to strengthen and improve the luster

any of several plants of or developed from the species Dahlia pinnata having tuberous roots and showy rayed variously colored flower heads; native to the mountains of Mexico and Central America and Colombia

of or relating to a temperature scale proposed by the inventor of the mercury thermometer

German publisher of a series of travel guidebooks

last king of Lydia (died in 546 BC)