Word Meanings - BARBADIAN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of or pertaining to Barbados. -- n.

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• BARBADOS; BARBADOES
  A West Indian island, giving its name to a disease, to a cherry, etc. Barbados cherry , a genus of trees of the West Indies with an agreeably acid fruit resembling a cherry. -- Barbados leg , a species of elephantiasis incident to hot climates.
• PERTAIN
  stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
• APPERTAIN
  To belong or pertain, whether by right, nature, appointment, or custom; to relate. Things appertaining to this life. Hooker. Give it unto him to whom it appertaineth. Lev. vi. 5. (more info) appartenir, fr. L. appertinere; ad + pertinere to reach