Word Meanings - CALENDULIN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A gummy or mucilaginous tasteless substance obtained from the marigold or calendula, and analogous to bassorin.

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• MARIGOLD
  A name for several plants with golden yellow blossoms, especially the Calendula officinalis , and the cultivated species of Tagetes. Note: There are several yellow-flowered plants of different genera bearing this name; as, the African or French
• SUBSTANCE
  See 2 (more info) 1. That which underlies all outward manifestations; substratum; the permanent subject or cause of phenomena, whether material or spiritual; that in which properties inhere; that which is real,
• OBTAINABLE
  Capable of being obtained.
• CALENDULA
  A genus of composite herbaceous plants. One species, Calendula officinalis, is the common marigold, and was supposed to blossom on the calends of every month, whence the name.
• TASTELESS
  1. Having no taste; insipid; flat; as, tasteless fruit. 2. Destitute of the sense of taste; or of good taste; as, a tasteless age. Orrery. 3. Not in accordance with good taste; as, a tasteless arrangement of drapery. -- Taste"less*ly,
• MUCILAGINOUS
  1. Partaking of the nature of, or resembling, mucilage; moist, soft, and viscid; slimy; ropy; as, a mucilaginous liquid. 2. Of, pertaining to, or secreting, mucilage; as, the mucilaginous glands. 3. Soluble in water, but not in alcohol; yielding
• SUBSTANCELESS
  Having no substance; unsubstantial. Coleridge.
• BASSORIN
  A constituent part of a species of gum from Bassora, as also of gum tragacanth and some gum resins. It is one of the amyloses. Ure.
• OBTAINMENT
  The act or process of obtaining; attainment. Milton.
• OBTAIN
  1. To hold; to keep; to possess. His mother, then, is mortal, but his Sire He who obtains the monarchy of heaven. Milton. 2. To get hold of by effort; to gain possession of; to procure; to acquire, in any way. Some pray for riches; riches they
• ANALOGOUS
  Having analogy; corresponding to something else; bearing some resemblance or proportion; -- often followed by to. Analogous tendencies in arts and manners. De Quincey. Decay of public spirit, which may be considered analogous to natural death. J.
• OBTAINER
  One who obtains.
• GUMMY
  Consisting of gum; viscous; adhesive; producing or containing gum; covered with gum or a substance resembling gum. Kindles the gummy bark of fir or pine. Milton. Then rubs his gummy eyes. Dryden. Gummy tumor , a gumma.
• REOBTAINABLE
  That may be reobtained.
• MARSH MARIGOLD
  . A perennial plant of the genus Caltha , growing in wet places and bearing bright yellow flowers. In the United States it is used as a pot herb under the name of cowslip. See Cowslip.
• SCHWANN'S WHITE SUBSTANCE
  The substance of the medullary sheath.
• REOBTAIN
  To obtain again.
• BUR MARIGOLD
  See TICKS
• PREOBTAIN
  To obtain beforehand.