Word Meanings - GENTIANIC - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Pertaining to or derived from the gentian; as, gentianic acid.

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• DERIVE
  To obtain one substance from another by actual or theoretical substitution; as, to derive an organic acid from its corresponding hydrocarbon. Syn. -- To trace; deduce; infer. (more info) 1. To turn the course of, as water; to divert and distribute
• GENTIANINE
  A bitter, crystallizable substance obtained from gentian.
• GENTIANACEOUS
  Of or pertaining to a natural order of plants of which the gentian is the type.
• DERIVATIONAL
  Relating to derivation. Earle.
• DERIVATIVE
  Obtained by derivation; derived; not radical, original, or fundamental; originating, deduced, or formed from something else; secondary; as, a derivative conveyance; a derivative word. Derivative circulation, a modification of the circulation found
• DERIVATION
  The operation of deducing one function from another according to some fixed law, called the law of derivation, as the of differentiation or of integration. (more info) 1. A leading or drawing off of water from a stream or source. T. Burnet. 2.
• PERTAIN
  stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
• GENTIAN
  Any one of a genus of herbaceous plants with opposite leaves and a tubular four- or five-lobed corolla, usually blue, but sometimes white, yellow, or red. See Illust. of Capsule. Note: Many species are found on the highest mountains of Europe,
• DERIVEMENT
  That which is derived; deduction; inference. I offer these derivements from these subjects. W. Montagu.
• DERIVER
  One who derives.
• GENTIANOSE
  A crystallizable, sugarlike substance, with a slightly sweetish taste, obtained from the gentian.
• DERIVATE
  Derived; derivative. H. Taylor. -- n.
• GENTIANELLA
  A kind of blue color. Johnson.
• GENTIANIC
  Pertaining to or derived from the gentian; as, gentianic acid.
• DERIVAL
  Derivation. The derival of e from a. Earle.
• DERIVABLE
  That can be derived; obtainable by transmission; capable of being known by inference, as from premises or data; capable of being traced, as from a radical; as, income is derivable from various sources. All honor derivable upon me. South.
• DERIVABLY
  By derivation.
• MISDERIVE
  1. To turn or divert improperly; to misdirect. Bp. Hall. 2. To derive erroneously.
• SUBDERIVATIVE
  A word derived from a derivative, and not directly from the root; as, "friendliness" is a subderivative, being derived from "friendly", which is in turn a derivative from "friend."
• APPERTAIN
  To belong or pertain, whether by right, nature, appointment, or custom; to relate. Things appertaining to this life. Hooker. Give it unto him to whom it appertaineth. Lev. vi. 5. (more info) appartenir, fr. L. appertinere; ad + pertinere to reach