Word Meanings - MARANTA - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A genus of endogenous plants found in tropical America, and some species also in India. They have tuberous roots containing a large amount of starch, and from one species arrowroot is obtained. Many kinds are cultivated for ornament.
Related words: (words related to MARANTA)
- INDIANEER
An Indiaman. - FOUNDATION
The lowest and supporting part or member of a wall, including the base course , under Base, n.) and footing courses; in a frame house, the whole substructure of masonry. 4. A donation or legacy appropriated to support a charitable institution, - FOUNDER
One who founds, establishes, and erects; one who lays a foundation; an author; one from whom anything originates; one who endows. - STARCHER
One who starches. - AMERICANIZATION
The process of Americanizing. - CONTAINMENT
That which is contained; the extent; the substance. The containment of a rich man's estate. Fuller. - CULTIVATABLE
Cultivable. - ORNAMENTAL
Serving to ornament; characterized by ornament; beautifying; embellishing. Some think it most ornamental to wear their bracelets on their wrists; others, about their ankles. Sir T. Browne. - TROPICALLY
In a tropical manner; figuratively; metaphorically. - OBTAINABLE
Capable of being obtained. - INDIA RUBBER
. See Caoutchouc. - FOUND
imp. & p. p. of Find. - FOUNDATIONER
One who derives support from the funds or foundation of a college or school. - 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, - AMERICAN
1. Of or pertaining to America; as, the American continent: American Indians. 2. Of or pertaining to the United States. "A young officer of the American navy." Lyell. American ivy. See Virginia creeper. -- American Party , a party, about 1854, - AMERICANISM
1. Attachment to the United States. 2. A custom peculiar to the United States or to America; an American characteristic or idea. 3. A word or phrase peculiar to the United States. - FOUNDEROUS
Difficult to travel; likely to trip one up; as, a founderous road. Burke. - AMERICAN PLAN
In hotels, aplan upon which guests pay for both room and board by the day, week, or other convenient period; -- contrasted with European plan. - FOUNDRESS
A female founder; a woman who founds or establishes, or who endows with a fund. - STARCHED
1. Stiffened with starch. 2. Stiff; precise; formal. Swift. - CONFOUNDED
1. Confused; perplexed. A cloudy and confounded philosopher. Cudworth. 2. Excessive; extreme; abominable. He was a most confounded tory. Swift. The tongue of that confounded woman. Sir. W. Scott. - EAST INDIAN
Belonging to, or relating to, the East Indies. -- n. - ENLARGEMENT
1. The act of increasing in size or bulk, real or apparent; the state of being increased; augmentation; further extension; expansion. 2. Expansion or extension, as of the powers of the mind; ennoblement, as of the feelings and character; as, an - REOBTAINABLE
That may be reobtained. - 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. - FOOL-LARGESSE
Foolish expenditure; waste. Chaucer. - 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.