The cutting chisel of a joiner's plane.

A horizontal guard plank along the truss of a highway bridge, at the height of a wagon-wheel hub.

A kind of camellia from which most tea oil is manufactured, Camellia oleifera.

telegraph plant

Codariocalyx motorius, a tropical Asian shrub, one of the few plants capable of rapid movement.

One of a set of planks employed to form a sort of dam in certain hydraulic works. Particularly used in canals as a temporary measure following a major leakage.

A South African herb (Uncarina leptocarpa) with woody fruits armed with long hooked or barbed thorns by which they adhere to cattle.

Sarcodes sanguinea, a parasitic flowering plant in the heath family.

Anastatica hierochuntica, also known as the rose of Jericho, a plant species native to deserts of North Africa / Asteriscus spp. / Boea hygrometrica

A device for converting reciprocating motion to rotary motion, used in the first rotative beam engines.