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Word Meanings - CICHORACEOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Belonging to, or resembling, a suborder of composite plants of which the chicory is the type.

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  • CHICORY
    A branching perennial plant with bright blue flowers, growing wild in Europe, Asia, and America; also cultivated for its roots and as a salad plant; succory; wild endive. See Endive. 2. The root, which is roasted for mixing with coffe.
  • WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
    Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
  • 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.
  • WHICH
    the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
  • RESEMBLINGLY
    So as to resemble; with resemblance or likeness.
  • BELONG
    attain to, to concern); pref. be- + longen to desire. See Long, v. Note: 1. To be the property of; as, Jamaica belongs to Great Britain. 2. To be a part of, or connected with; to be appendant or related; to owe allegiance or service. A desert place
  • RESEMBLANT
    Having or exhibiting resemblance; resembling. Gower.
  • BELONGING
    1. That which belongs to one; that which pertains to one; hence, goods or effects. "Thyself and thy belongings." Shak. 2. That which is connected with a principal or greater thing; an appendage; an appurtenance. 3. Family; relations; household.
  • RESEMBLE
    sembler to seem, resemble, fr. L. similare, simulare, to imitate, fr. 1. To be like or similar to; to bear the similitude of, either in appearance or qualities; as, these brothers resemble each other. We will resemble you in that. Shak.
  • SUBORDER
    A division of an order; a group of genera of a little lower rank than an order and of greater importance than a tribe or family; as, cichoraceous plants form a suborder of Compositæ.
  • RESEMBLABLE
    Admitting of being compared; like. Gower.
  • RESEMBLER
    One who resembles.
  • RESEMBLANCE
    1. The quality or state of resembling; likeness; similitude; similarity. One main end of poetry and painting is to please; they bear a great resemblance to each other. Dryden. 2. That which resembles, or is similar; a representation; a likeness.
  • DECOMPOSITE
    See 2 (more info) 1. Compounded more than once; compounded with things already composite.
  • INCOMPOSITE
    Not composite; uncompounded; simple. Incomposite numbers. See Prime numbers, under Prime.
  • SUBELONGATE
    Not fully elongated; somewhat elongated.
  • NONRESEMBLANCE
    Want of resemblance; unlikeness; dissimilarity.

 

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