Word Meanings - MALACCA - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A town and district upon the seacoast of the Malay Peninsula. Malacca cane , a cane obtained from a species of palm of the genus Calamus , and of a brown color, often mottled. The plant is a native of Cochin China, Sumatra, and Malays.

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• COLORMAN
  A vender of paints, etc. Simmonds.
• BROWNBACK
  The dowitcher or red-breasted snipe. See Dowitcher.
• COCHINEAL FIG
  A plant of Central and Southern Anerica, of the Cactus familly, extensively cultivated for the sake of the cochineal insect, which lives on it.
• MALACCA
  A town and district upon the seacoast of the Malay Peninsula. Malacca cane , a cane obtained from a species of palm of the genus Calamus , and of a brown color, often mottled. The plant is a native of Cochin China, Sumatra, and Malays.
• MOTTLE
  To mark with spots of different color, or shades of color, as if stained; to spot; to maculate. (more info) Etym:
• 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.
• 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.
• COLORATE
  Colored. Ray.
• OBTAINABLE
  Capable of being obtained.
• COLORIMETRY
  The quantitative determination of the depth of color of a substance. 2. A method of quantitative chemical analysis based upon the comparison of the depth of color of a solution with that of a standard liquid.
• SPECIES
  A group of individuals agreeing in common attributes, and designated by a common name; a conception subordinated to another conception, called a genus, or generic conception, from which it differs in containing or comprehending more attributes,
• MALAY
  One of a race of a brown or copper complexion in the Malay Peninsula and the western islands of the Indian Archipelago.
• 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.
• NATIVE
  1. Arising by birth; having an origin; born. Anaximander's opinion is, that the gods are native, rising and vanishing again in long periods of times. Cudworth. 2. Of or pertaining to one's birth; natal; belonging to the place or the circumstances
• COLORADO BEETLE
  A yellowish beetle , with ten longitudinal, black, dorsal stripes. It has migrated eastwards from its original habitat in Colorado, and is very destructive to the potato plant; -- called also potato beetle and potato bug. See Potato beetle.
• PLANTERSHIP
  The occupation or position of a planter, or the management of a plantation, as in the United States or the West Indies.
• PLANTLESS
  Without plants; barren of vegetation.
• DISTRICT
  Rigorous; stringent; harsh. Punishing with the rod of district severity. Foxe.
• 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
• ELIMINATIVE
  Relating to, or carrying on, elimination.
• NOMINATIVELY
  In the manner of a nominative; as a nominative.
• EMANATIVE
  Issuing forth; effluent.
• DOMINATIVE
  Governing; ruling; imperious. Sir E. Sandys.
• CONCOLOR
  Of the same color; of uniform color. "Concolor animals." Sir T. Browne.
• REGNATIVE
  Ruling; governing.
• TRICHINA
  A small, slender nematoid worm which, in the larval state, is parasitic, often in immense numbers, in the voluntary muscles of man, the hog, and many other animals. When insufficiently cooked meat containing the larvæ is swallowed by man, they
• COORDINATIVE
  Expressing coördination. J. W. Gibbs.
• ECHINATE; ECHINATED
  Set with prickles; prickly, like a hedgehog; bristled; as, an echinated pericarp.
• REDISTRICT
  To divide into new districts.
• ISABELLA; ISABELLA COLOR
  A brownish yellow color. (more info) Spanish princess Isabella, daughter of king Philip II., in allusion to the color assumed by her shift, which she wore without change from
• REOBTAINABLE
  That may be reobtained.