Word Meanings - MALABAR - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A region in the western part of the Peninsula of India, between the mountains and the sea. Malabar nut , the seed of an East Indian acanthaceous shrub, the Adhatoda Vasica, sometimes used medicinally.

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• INDIANEER
  An Indiaman.
• SOMETIMES
  1. Formerly; sometime. That fair and warlike form In which the majesty of buried Denmark Did sometimes march. Shak. 2. At times; at intervals; now and then;occasionally. It is good that we sometimes be contradicted. Jer. Taylor. Sometimes . . .
• INDIA RUBBER
  . See Caoutchouc.
• SHRUBBY
  1. Full of shrubs. 2. Of the nature of a shrub; resembling a shrub. "Shrubby browse." J. Philips.
• SHRUBLESS
  having no shrubs. Byron.
• ACANTHACEOUS
  Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the family of plants of which the acanthus is the type. (more info) 1. Armed with prickles, as a plant.
• INDIAMAN
  A large vessel in the India trade. Macaulay.
• SHRUBBINESS
  Quality of being shrubby.
• INDIA STEEL
  See WOOTZ
• WESTERNER
  A native or inhabitant of the west.
• MEDICINALLY
  In a medicinal manner.
• MALABAR
  A region in the western part of the Peninsula of India, between the mountains and the sea. Malabar nut , the seed of an East Indian acanthaceous shrub, the Adhatoda Vasica, sometimes used medicinally.
• INDIADEM
  To place or set in a diadem, as a gem or gems.
• WESTERN
  1. Of or pertaining to the west; situated in the west, or in the region nearly in the direction of west; being in that quarter where the sun sets; as, the western shore of France; the western ocean. Far o'er the glowing western main. Keble. 2.
• REGIONAL
  Of or pertaining to a particular region; sectional.
• WESTERNMOST
  Situated the farthest towards the west; most western.
• BETWEEN
  betweónum; prefix be- by + a form fr. AS. twa two, akin to Goth. 1. In the space which separates; betwixt; as, New York is between Boston and Philadelphia. 2. Used in expressing motion from one body or place to another; from one to another of
• SHRUB
  A liquor composed of vegetable acid, especially lemon juice, and sugar, with spirit to preserve it.
• INDIAN
  1. A native or inhabitant of India. 2. One of the aboriginal inhabitants of America; -- so called originally from the supposed identity of America with India.
• PENINSULATE
  To form into a peninsula. South River . . . peninsulates Castle Hill farm. W. Bentley.
• EAST INDIAN
  Belonging to, or relating to, the East Indies. -- n.
• PHOTIC REGION
  The uppermost zone of the sea, which receives the most light.
• 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.
• NORTHWESTERN
  Of, pertaining to, or being in, the northwest; in a direction toward the northwest; coming from the northwest; northwesterly; as, a northwestern course.
• UNSHRUBBED
  Being without shrubs.
• WEST INDIAN
  A native of, or a dweller in, the West Indies.
• GO-BETWEEN
  An intermediate agent; a broker; a procurer; -- usually in a disparaging sense. Shak.
• 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.