Word Meanings - LICHENIC - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of, pertaining to, or obtained from, lichens. Lichenic acid. An organic acid, C14H24O3 obtained from Iceland moss. An old name of fumaric acid.

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• ORGANICALNESS
  The quality or state of being organic.
• ICELANDER
  A native, or one of the Scandinavian people, of Iceland.
• OBTAINABLE
  Capable of being obtained.
• ICELAND MOSS
  A kind of lichen found from the Arctic regions to the North Temperate zone. It furnishes a nutritious jelly and other forms of food, and is used in pulmonary complaints as a demulcent.
• 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
• ORGANICALLY
  In an organic manner; by means of organs or with reference to organic functions; hence, fundamentally. Gladstone.
• ICELANDIC
  Of or pertaining to Iceland; relating to, or resembling, the Icelanders.
• LICHENIC
  Of, pertaining to, or obtained from, lichens. Lichenic acid. An organic acid, C14H24O3 obtained from Iceland moss. An old name of fumaric acid.
• ORGANICAL
  Organic. The organical structure of human bodies, whereby they live and move. Bentley.
• OBTAINMENT
  The act or process of obtaining; attainment. Milton.
• OBTAIN
  1. To hold; to keep; to possess. His mother, then, is mortal, but his Sire He who obtains the monarchy of heaven. Milton. 2. To get hold of by effort; to gain possession of; to procure; to acquire, in any way. Some pray for riches; riches they
• ORGANIC
  Of or pertaining to an organ or its functions, or to objects composed of organs; consisting of organs, or containing them; as, the organic structure of animals and plants; exhibiting characters peculiar to living organisms; as, organic
• FUMARIC
  Pertaining to, or derived from, fumitory . Fumaric acid , a widely occurring organic acid, exttracted from fumitory as a white crystallline substance, C2H2 2, and produced artificially in many ways, as by the distillation of malic acid; boletic
• ICELAND SPAR
  A transparent variety of calcite, the best of which is obtained in Iceland. It is used for the prisms of the polariscope, because of its strong double refraction. Cf. Calcite.
• OBTAINER
  One who obtains.
• ORGANICISM
  The doctrine of the localization of disease, or which refers it always to a material lesion of an organ. Dunglison.
• INORGANICAL
  Inorganic. Locke.
• REOBTAINABLE
  That may be reobtained.
• REOBTAIN
  To obtain again.
• INORGANIC
  Not organic; without the organs necessary for life; devoid of an organized structure; unorganized; lifeness; inanimate; as, all chemical compounds are inorganic substances. Note: The term inorganic is used to denote any one the large series
• TELEORGANIC
  Vital; as, teleorganic functions.
• METALLORGANIC
  Metalorganic.
• INORGANICALLY
  In an inorganic manner.
• HYPERORGANIC
  Higher than, or beyond the sphere of, the organic. Sir W. Hamilton.
• PREOBTAIN
  To obtain beforehand.