Word Meanings - HERB - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. A plant whose stem does not become woody and permanent, but dies, at least down to the ground, after flowering. Note: Annual herbs live but one season; biennial herbs flower the second season, and then die; perennial herbs produce new stems
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1. A plant whose stem does not become woody and permanent, but dies, at least down to the ground, after flowering. Note: Annual herbs live but one season; biennial herbs flower the second season, and then die; perennial herbs produce new stems year after year. 2. Grass; herbage. And flocks Grazing the tender herb. Milton. Herb bennet. See Bennet. -- Herb Christopher , an herb , whose root is used in nervous diseases; the baneberry. The name is occasionally given to other plants, as the royal fern, the wood betony, etc. -- Herb Gerard , the goutweed; -- so called in honor of St. Gerard, who used to be invoked against the gout. Dr. Prior. -- Herb grace, or Herb of grace. See Rue. -- Herb Margaret , the daisy. See Marguerite. -- Herb Paris , an Old World plant related to the trillium , commonly reputed poisonous. -- Herb Robert , a species of Geranium
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- WHOSESOEVER
The possessive of whosoever. See Whosoever. - SECOND
1. Immediately following the first; next to the first in order of place or time; hence, occuring again; another; other. And he slept and dreamed the second time. Gen. xli. 5. 2. Next to the first in value, power, excellence, dignity, - FLOWERY-KIRTLED
Dressed with garlands of flowers. Milton. - AFTERCAST
A throw of dice after the game in ended; hence, anything done too late. Gower. - GROUNDWORK
That which forms the foundation or support of anything; the basis; the essential or fundamental part; first principle. Dryden. - FLOWER-DE-LUCE
A genus of perennial herbs with swordlike leaves and large three-petaled flowers often of very gay colors, but probably white in the plant first chosen for the royal French emblem. Note: There are nearly one hundred species, natives of the north - ANNUALIST
One who writes for, or who edits, an annual. - AFTER
To ward the stern of the ship; -- applied to any object in the rear part of a vessel; as the after cabin, after hatchway. Note: It is often combined with its noun; as, after-bowlines, after- braces, after-sails, after-yards, those on the mainmasts - GROUNDEN
p. p. of Grind. Chaucer. - AFTERPAINS
The pains which succeed childbirth, as in expelling the afterbirth. - FLOWERY
1. Full of flowers; abounding with blossoms. 2. Highly embellished with figurative language; florid; as, a flowery style. Milton. The flowery kingdom, China. - FLOWERLESSNESS
State of being without flowers. - PLANTIGRADA
A subdivision of Carnivora having plantigrade feet. It includes the bears, raccoons, and allied species. - PRODUCEMENT
Production. - FLOWERLESS
Having no flowers. Flowerless plants, plants which have no true flowers, and produce no seeds; cryptigamous plants. - PLANTULE
The embryo which has begun its development in the act of germination. - LEAST
Smallest, either in size or degree; shortest; lowest; most unimportant; as, the least insect; the least mercy; the least space. Note: Least is often used with the, as if a noun. I am the least of the apostles. 1 Cor. xv. 9. At least, or - 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. - GROUNDNUT
The fruit of the Arachis hypogæa ; the peanut; the earthnut. A leguminous, twining plant , producing clusters of dark purple flowers and having a root tuberous and pleasant to the taste. The dwarf ginseng . Gray. A European plant of the genus - ANNUAL
1. Of or pertaining to a year; returning every year; coming or happening once in the year; yearly. The annual overflowing of the river . Ray. 2. Performed or accomplished in a year; reckoned by the year; as, the annual motion of the - 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 - WINDFLOWER
The anemone; -- so called because formerly supposed to open only when the wind was blowing. See Anemone. - MISGROUND
To found erroneously. "Misgrounded conceit." Bp. Hall. - CAULIFLOWER
An annual variety of Brassica oleracea, or cabbage of which the cluster of young flower stalks and buds is eaten as a vegetable. 2. The edible head or "curd" of a caulifower plant. (more info) caulis, and by E. flower; F. chou cabbage is fr. L. - SEMIANNUALLY
Every half year. - UNDERGROUND INSURANCE
Wildcat insurance. - PLAYGROUND
A piece of ground used for recreation; as, the playground of a school.