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Word Meanings - BUTTERWEED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An annual composite plant of the Mississippi valley (Senecio lobatus).

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  • ANNUALIST
    One who writes for, or who edits, an annual.
  • VALLEY
    1. The space inclosed between ranges of hills or mountains; the strip of land at the bottom of the depressions intersecting a country, including usually the bed of a stream, with frequently broad alluvial plains on one or both sides of the stream.
  • PLANTIGRADA
    A subdivision of Carnivora having plantigrade feet. It includes the bears, raccoons, and allied species.
  • PLANTULE
    The embryo which has begun its development in the act of germination.
  • PLANTIGRADE
    Walking on the sole of the foot; pertaining to the plantigrades. Having the foot so formed that the heel touches the ground when the leg is upright.
  • ANNUAL
    1. Of or pertaining to a year; returning every year; coming or happening once in the year; yearly. The annual overflowing of the river . Ray. 2. Performed or accomplished in a year; reckoned by the year; as, the annual motion of the
  • PLANTOCRACY
    Government by planters; planters, collectively.
  • PLANTERSHIP
    The occupation or position of a planter, or the management of a plantation, as in the United States or the West Indies.
  • COMPOSITE
    Belonging to a certain order which is composed of the Ionic order grafted upon the Corinthian. It is called also the Roman or the Italic order, and is one of the five orders recognized by the Italian writers of the sixteenth century. See Capital.
  • PLANTLESS
    Without plants; barren of vegetation.
  • PLANT-CANE
    A stalk or shoot of sugar cane of the first growth from the cutting. The growth of the second and following years is of inferior quality, and is called rattoon.
  • PLANTED
    Fixed in place, as a projecting member wrought on a separate piece of stuff; as, a planted molding.
  • PLANTAIN
    A treelike perennial herb of tropical regions, bearing immense leaves and large clusters of the fruits called plantains. See Musa. 2. The fruit of this plant. It is long and somewhat cylindrical, slightly curved, and, when ripe, soft, fleshy,
  • PLANTICLE
    A young plant, or plant in embryo. E. Darwin.
  • PLANTAL
    Belonging to plants; as, plantal life. Dr. H. More.
  • PLANTLET
    A little plant.
  • PLANT-EATING
    Eating, or subsisting on, plants; as, a plant-eating beetle.
  • PLANTAGE
    A word used once by Shakespeare to designate plants in general, or anything that is planted. As true as steel, as plantage to the moon. Shak. .
  • SENECIO
    A very large genus of composite plants including the groundsel and the golden ragwort.
  • PLANTAR
    Of or pertaining to the sole of the foot; as, the plantar arteries.
  • DISPLANTATION
    The act of displanting; removal; displacement. Sir W. Raleigh.
  • SUPPLANT
    heels, to throw down; sub under + planta the sole of the foot, also, 1. To trip up. "Supplanted, down he fell." Milton. 2. To remove or displace by stratagem; to displace and take the place of; to supersede; as, a rival supplants another in the
  • SEMIANNUALLY
    Every half year.
  • LAMINIPLANTAR
    Having the tarsus covered behind with a horny sheath continuous on both sides, as in most singing birds, except the larks.
  • IMPLANTATION
    The act or process of implantating.
  • EGGPLANT
    A plant , of East Indian origin, allied to the tomato, and bearing a large, smooth, edible fruit, shaped somewhat like an egg; mad-apple.
  • DEPLANT
    To take up ; to transplant.
  • FLAX-PLANT
    A plant in new Zealand , allied to the lilies and aloes. The leaves are two inches wide and several feet long, and furnish a fiber which is used for making ropes, mats, and coarse cloth.
  • SEMIANNUAL
    Half-yearly.
  • PIEPLANT
    A plant the leafstalks of which are acid, and are used in making pies; the garden rhubarb.

 

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