A Costa Rican tropical plant distantly related to ginger, Costus barbatus, which is grown for its showy red flowerheads.

Resources for achieving anything. / Schemes for raising money for the carrying on of government.

With, or as if with, catatonia; rigidly, mechanically

(chiefly zoology) A small opening or orifice. / (zoology, obsolete) One of the suckers on the head of a tapeworm. / (zoology) The main opening in a sponge from which water is expelled.