Word Meanings - CHECKERBERRY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A spicy plant and its bright red berry; the wintergreen . Also incorrectly applied to the partridge berry .

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• APPLICABLE
  Capable of being applied; fit or suitable to be applied; having relevance; as, this observation is applicable to the case under consideration. -- Ap"pli*ca*ble*ness, n. -- Ap"pli*ca*bly, adv.
• BRIGHT
  See I
• APPLICATIVE
  Having of being applied or used; applying; applicatory; practical. Bramhall. -- Ap"pli*ca*tive*ly, adv.
• PLANTIGRADA
  A subdivision of Carnivora having plantigrade feet. It includes the bears, raccoons, and allied species.
• APPLICANCY
  The quality or state of being applicable.
• PLANTULE
  The embryo which has begun its development in the act of germination.
• APPLICABILITY
  The quality of being applicable or fit to be applied.
• 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.
• BERRYING
  A seeking for or gathering of berries, esp. of such as grow wild.
• APPLICATORILY
  By way of application.
• PLANTOCRACY
  Government by planters; planters, collectively.
• PARTRIDGE
  F. perdrix, L. perdix, -icis, fr. Gr. 1. Any one of numerous species of small gallinaceous birds of the genus Perdix and several related genera of the family Perdicidæ, of the Old World. The partridge is noted as a game bird. Full many
• PLANTERSHIP
  The occupation or position of a planter, or the management of a plantation, as in the United States or the West Indies.
• INCORRECTLY
  Not correctly; inaccurately; not exactly; as, a writing incorrectly copied; testimony incorrectly stated.
• PLANTLESS
  Without plants; barren of vegetation.
• BRIGHTSOME
  Bright; clear; luminous; brilliant. Marlowe.
• 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,
• APPLICATE
  Applied or put to some use. Those applicate sciences which extend the power of man over the elements. I. Taylor. Applicate number , one which applied to some concrete case. -- Applicate ordinate, right line applied at right angles to the axis of
• 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
• UNAPPLIABLE
  Inapplicable. Milton.
• REAPPLICATION
  The act of reapplying, or the state of being reapplied.
• BAYBERRY
  The fruit of the bay tree or Laurus nobilis. A tree of the West Indies related to the myrtle . The fruit of Myrica cerifera ; the shrub itself; -- called also candleberry tree. Bayberry tallow, a fragrant green wax obtained from the bayberry
• LAMINIPLANTAR
  Having the tarsus covered behind with a horny sheath continuous on both sides, as in most singing birds, except the larks.
• KNOTBERRY
  The cloudberry ; -- so called from its knotted stems.
• EMBRIGHT
  To brighten.
• INAPPLICABILITY
  The quality of being inapplicable; unfitness; inapplicableness.
• DEWBERRY
  The fruit of certain species of bramble ; in England, the fruit of R. cæsius, which has a glaucous bloom; in America, that of R. canadensis and R. hispidus, species of low blackberries. The plant which bears the fruit. Feed him with apricots
• JUNEBERRY
  The small applelike berry of American trees of genus Amelanchier; -- also called service berry. The shrub or tree which bears this fruit; -- also called shad bush, and had tree.
• IMPLANTATION
  The act or process of implantating.