Word Meanings - MASTERWORT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A tall and coarse European umbelliferous plant (Peucedanum Ostruthium, formerly Imperatoria). The Astrantia major, a European umbelliferous plant with a showy colored involucre. Improperly, the cow parsnip .

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• COLORMAN
  A vender of paints, etc. Simmonds.
• MAJOR GENERAL
  . An officer of the army holding a rank next above that of brigadier general and next below that of lieutenant general, and who usually commands a division or a corps.
• MAJORSHIP
  The office of major.
• IMPROPERLY
  In an improper manner; not properly; unsuitably; unbecomingly.
• COARSE
  was anciently written course, or cours, it may be an abbreviation of of course, in the common manner of proceeding, common, and hence, homely, made for common domestic use, plain, rude, rough, gross, e. 1. Large in bulk, or composed of large parts
• FORMERLY
  In time past, either in time immediately preceding or at any indefinite distance; of old; heretofore.
• PLANTIGRADA
  A subdivision of Carnivora having plantigrade feet. It includes the bears, raccoons, and allied species.
• PARSNIP
  The aromatic and edible spindle-shaped root of the cultivated form of the Pastinaca sativa, a biennial umbelliferous plant which is very poisonous in its wild state; also, the plant itself. Cow parsnip. See Cow parsnip. -- Meadow parsnip,
• 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.
• 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.
• IMPERATORIAL
  1. Commanding; imperative; authoritative. 2. Of or pertaining to the title or office of imperator. "Imperatorial laurels." C. Merivale.
• COARSELY
  In a coarse manner; roughly; rudely; inelegantly; uncivilly; meanly.
• MAJOR
  Greater by a semitone, either in interval or in difference of pitch from another tone. Major axis , the greater axis. See Focus, n., 2. -- Major key , a key in which one and two, two and three, four and five, five and six and seven, make major
• MAJORATION
  Increase; enlargement. Bacon.
• PLANTOCRACY
  Government by planters; planters, collectively.
• 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.
• 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
• CONCOLOR
  Of the same color; of uniform color. "Concolor animals." Sir T. Browne.
• WATER PARSNIP
  Any plant of the aquatic umbelliferous genus Sium, poisonous herbs with pinnate or dissected leaves and small white flowers.
• 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
• LAMINIPLANTAR
  Having the tarsus covered behind with a horny sheath continuous on both sides, as in most singing birds, except the larks.
• IMPLANTATION
  The act or process of implantating.
• TRICOLOR
  1. The national French banner, of three colors, blue, white, and red, adopted at the first revolution. 2. Hence, any three-colored flag.