Word Meanings - ISONANDRA - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A genus of sapotaceous trees of India. Isonandra Gutta is the principal source of gutta-percha.

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• PRINCIPALNESS
  The quality of being principal.
• INDIANEER
  An Indiaman.
• PRINCIPALITY
  preëminence, excellence: cf. F. principalité, principauté. See 1. Sovereignty; supreme power; hence, superiority; predominance; high, or the highest, station. Sir P. Sidney. Your principalities shall come down, even the crown of your glory.
• GUTTATRAP
  The inspissated juice of a tree of the genus Artocarpus (A. incisa, or breadfruit tree), sometimes used in making birdlime, on account of its glutinous quality.
• GUTTA
  One of a series of ornaments, in the form of a frustum of a cone, attached to the lower part of the triglyphs, and also to the lower faces of the mutules, in the Doric order; -- called also campana, and drop. Gutta serena Etym: , amaurosis.
• INDIA RUBBER
  . See Caoutchouc.
• PERCHANCE
  By chance; perhaps; peradventure.
• GUTTA-PERCHA
  A concrete juice produced by various trees found in the Malayan archipelago, especially by the Isonandra, or Dichopsis, Gutta. It becomes soft, and unpressible at the tamperature of boiling water, and, on cooling, retains its new shape. It dissolves
• INDIAMAN
  A large vessel in the India trade. Macaulay.
• GUTTATED
  Besprinkled with drops, or droplike spots. Bailey.
• INDIA STEEL
  See WOOTZ
• SAPOTACEOUS
  Of or pertaining to a natural order of (mostly tropical) trees and shrubs, including the star apple, the Lucuma, or natural marmalade tree, the gutta-percha tree , and the India mahwa, as well as the sapodilla, or sapota, after which the order
• INDIADEM
  To place or set in a diadem, as a gem or gems.
• PRINCIPALLY
  In a principal manner; primarily; above all; chiefly; mainly.
• INDIAN
  river in Asia, L. Indus, Gr. Hindu, name of the land on the Indus, 1. Of or pertaining to India proper; also to the East Indies, or, sometimes, to the West Indies. 2. Of or pertaining to the aborigines, or Indians, of America; as, Indian wars;
• GENUS
  A class of objects divided into several subordinate species; a class more extensive than a species; a precisely defined and exactly divided class; one of the five predicable conceptions, or sorts of terms.
• ISONANDRA
  A genus of sapotaceous trees of India. Isonandra Gutta is the principal source of gutta-percha.
• GUTTATE
  Spotted, as if discolored by drops.
• SOURCE
  OF. sors, p.p. of OF. sordre, surdre, sourdre, to spring forth or up, F. sourdre, fr. L. surgere to lift or raise up, to spring up. See 1. The act of rising; a rise; an ascent. Therefore right as an hawk upon a sours Up springeth into the air,
• PRINCIPAL
  1. Highest in rank, authority, character, importance, or degree; most considerable or important; chief; main; as, the principal officers of a Government; the principal men of a state; the principal productions of a country; the principal arguments
• EAST INDIAN
  Belonging to, or relating to, the East Indies. -- n.
• SUBGENUS
  A subdivision of a genus, comprising one or more species which differ from other species of the genus in some important character or characters; as, the azaleas now constitute a subgenus of Rhododendron.
• LINDIA
  A peculiar genus of rotifers, remarkable for the absence of ciliated disks. By some zoölogists it is thought to be like the ancestral form of the Arthropoda.
• RESOURCE
  Pecuniary means; funds; money, or any property that can be converted into supplies; available means or capabilities of any kind. Scotland by no means escaped the fate ordained for every country which is connected, but not incorporated, with another
• WEST INDIAN
  A native of, or a dweller in, the West Indies.
• WEST INDIA; WEST INDIAN
  Belonging or relating to the West Indies. West India tea , a shrubby plant having oblanceolate toothed leaves which are sometimes used in the West Indies as a substitute for tea.
• RESOURCEFUL
  Full of resources.