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Word Meanings - DIOECIOUSLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

In a dioecious manner. Dioeciously hermaphrodite , having flowers structurally perfect, but practically dioecious, -- those on one plant producing no pollen, and those on another no ovules.

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  • HAVENED
    Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats.
  • PRODUCIBILITY
    The quality or state of being producible. Barrow.
  • HAVENER
    A harbor master.
  • ANOTHER-GUESS
    Of another sort. It used to go in another-guess manner. Arbuthnot.
  • PERFECT
    Hermaphrodite; having both stamens and pistils; -- said of flower. Perfect cadence , a complete and satisfactory close in harmony, as upon the tonic preceded by the dominant. -- Perfect chord , a concord or union of sounds which is perfectly
  • PLANTIGRADA
    A subdivision of Carnivora having plantigrade feet. It includes the bears, raccoons, and allied species.
  • PRODUCEMENT
    Production.
  • HAVELOCK
    A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke.
  • 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.
  • THOSE
    The plural of that. See That.
  • POLLENIN
    A substance found in the pollen of certain plants.
  • POLLEN
    The fecundating dustlike cells of the anthers of flowers. See Flower, and Illust. of Filament. Pollen grain , a particle or call of pollen. -- Pollen mass, a pollinium. Gray. -- Pollen sac, a compartment of an anther containing pollen, -- usually
  • HAVE
    haven, habben, AS. habben ; akin to OS. hebbian, D. hebben, OFries, hebba, OHG. hab, G. haben, Icel. hafa, Sw. hafva, Dan. have, Goth. haban, and prob. to L. habere, whence F. 1. To hold in possession or control; to own; as, he has a farm. 2.
  • PLANTOCRACY
    Government by planters; planters, collectively.
  • HAVENAGE
    Harbor dues; port dues.
  • PERFECTIONAL
    Of or pertaining to perfection; characterized by perfection. Bp. Pearson.
  • PLANTERSHIP
    The occupation or position of a planter, or the management of a plantation, as in the United States or the West Indies.
  • PLANTLESS
    Without plants; barren of vegetation.
  • PRODUCTIVITY
    The quality or state of being productive; productiveness. Emerson. Not indeed as the product, but as the producing power, the productivity. Coleridge.
  • 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
  • SPATHOSE
    See SPATHIC
  • UNMANNERLY
    Not mannerly; ill-bred; rude. -- adv.
  • GYNODIOECIOUS
    Dioecious, but having some hermaphrodite or perfect flowers on an individual plant which bears mostly pistillate flowers.
  • LAMINIPLANTAR
    Having the tarsus covered behind with a horny sheath continuous on both sides, as in most singing birds, except the larks.
  • MISBEHAVE
    To behave ill; to conduct one's self improperly; -- often used with a reciprocal pronoun.
  • OVERPRODUCTION
    Excessive production; supply beyond the demand. J. S. Mill.
  • INSHAVE
    A plane for shaving or dressing the concave or inside faces of barrel staves.

 

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