Word Meanings - HENNOTANNIC - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Pertaining to, or designating, a brown resinous substance resembling tannin, and extracted from the henna plant; as, hennotannic acid.

Related words: (words related to HENNOTANNIC)

• BROWNBACK
  The dowitcher or red-breasted snipe. See Dowitcher.
• DESIGNATE
  Designated; appointed; chosen. Sir G. Buck.
• 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.
• EXTRACTABLE; EXTRACTIBLE
  Capable of being extracted.
• 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.
• RESINOUSNESS
  The quality of being resinous.
• TANNIN
  See TANNIC
• RESINOUS
  Of or pertaining to resin; of the nature of resin; resembling or obtained from resin. Resinous electricity , electricity which is exited by rubbing bodies of the resinous kind. See Negative electricity, under Negative.
• PLANTOCRACY
  Government by planters; planters, collectively.
• BROWNIE
  An imaginary good-natured spirit, who was supposed often to perform important services around the house by night, such as thrashing, churning, sweeping.
• DESIGNATOR
  An officer who assigned to each his rank and place in public shows and ceremonies. 2. One who designates.
• PLANTERSHIP
  The occupation or position of a planter, or the management of a plantation, as in the United States or the West Indies.
• DESIGNATIVE
  Serving to designate or indicate; pointing out.
• PLANTLESS
  Without plants; barren of vegetation.
• BROWNNESS
  The quality or state of being brown. Now like I brown ; Only in brownness beauty dwelleth there. Drayton.
• EXTRACT
  1. To draw out or forth; to pull out; to remove forcibly from a fixed position, as by traction or suction, etc.; as, to extract a tooth from its socket, a stump from the earth, a splinter from the finger. The bee Sits on the bloom extracting liquid
• BROWNWORT
  A species of figwort or Scrophularia , and other species of the same genus, mostly perennials with inconspicuous coarse flowers.
• RESEMBLINGLY
  So as to resemble; with resemblance or likeness.
• BROWNISM
  The views or teachings of Robert Brown of the Brownists. Milton.
• 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
• GEHENNA
  The valley of Hinnom, near Jerusalem, where some of the Israelites sacrificed their children to Moloch, which, on this account, was afterward regarded as a place of abomination, and made a receptacle for all the refuse of the city, perpetual fires
• STANNINE; STANNITE
  A mineral of a steel
• 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.
• SCHWANN'S WHITE SUBSTANCE
  The substance of the medullary sheath.
• 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.
• GOULARDS EXTRACT
  An aqueous solution of the subacetate of lead, used as a lotion in cases of inflammation. Goulard's cerate is a cerate containing this extract.