Word Meanings - GROSSULAR - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Pertaining too, or resembling, a gooseberry; as, grossular garnet. (more info) of Ribes, including the gooseberry, fr. F. groseille. See

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• GARNETIFEROUS
  Containing garnets.
• RIBES
  A genus of shrubs including gooseberries and currants of many kinds.
• INCLUDED
  Inclosed; confined. Included stamens , such as are shorter than the floral envelopes, or are concealed within them.
• RESEMBLINGLY
  So as to resemble; with resemblance or likeness.
• 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
• GROSSULAR
  Pertaining too, or resembling, a gooseberry; as, grossular garnet. (more info) of Ribes, including the gooseberry, fr. F. groseille. See
• GOOSEBERRY
  Any thorny shrub of the genus Ribes; also, the edible berries of such shrub. There are several species, of which Ribes Grossularia is the one commonly cultivated. 2. A silly person; a goose cap. Goldsmith. Barbadoes gooseberry, a climbing prickly
• RESEMBLANT
  Having or exhibiting resemblance; resembling. Gower.
• 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.
• RESEMBLABLE
  Admitting of being compared; like. Gower.
• GARNET
  A mineral having many varieties differing in color and in their constituents, but with the same crystallization , and conforming to the same general chemical formula. The commonest color is red, the luster is vitreous, and the hardness greater
• INCLUDE
  1. To confine within; to hold; to contain; to shut up; to inclose; as, the shell of a nut includes the kernel; a pearl is included in a shell. 2. To comprehend or comprise, as a genus the species, the whole a part, an argument or reason
• RESEMBLER
  One who resembles.
• INCLUDIBLE
  Capable of being included.
• 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.
• GROSSULARIA
  See GROSSULAR
• CROSS-GARNET
  A hinge having one strap perpendicular and the other strap horizontal giving it the form of an Egyptian or T cross.
• 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
• NONRESEMBLANCE
  Want of resemblance; unlikeness; dissimilarity.