Word Meanings - FLORAMOUR - Book Publishers vocabulary database
The plant love-lies-bleeding. Prior.
Related words: (words related to FLORAMOUR)
- PRIORSHIP
The state or office of prior; priorate. - 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. - 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. - PLANTLESS
Without plants; barren of vegetation. - PRIORITY
1. The quality or state of being prior or antecedent in time, or of preceding something else; as, priority of application. 2. Precedence; superior rank. Shak. Priority of debts, a superior claim to payment, or a claim to payment before others. - PRIORATE
The dignity, office, or government, of a prior. T. Warton. - 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. - PRIORESS
A lady superior of a priory of nuns, and next in dignity to an abbess. - 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. . - PRIORY
A religious house presided over by a prior or prioress; -- sometimes an offshoot of, an subordinate to, an abbey, and called also cell, and obedience. See Cell, 2. Note: Of such houses there were two sorts: one where the prior was chosen by the - 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 - BEBLEED
To make bloody; to stain with blood. Chaucer. - SUBPRIOR
The vicegerent of a prior; a claustral officer who assists the prior. - 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. - APRIORISM
An a priori principle. - 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. - PIEPLANT
A plant the leafstalks of which are acid, and are used in making pies; the garden rhubarb.