Word Meanings - MONOTROPA - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A genus of parasitic or saprophytic plants including the Indian pipe and pine sap. The name alludes to the dropping end of the stem.

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• INDIANEER
  An Indiaman.
• PARASITIC; PARASITICAL
  Of or pertaining to parasites; living on, or deriving nourishment from, some other living animal or plant. See Parasite, 2 & 3. Parasitic gull, Parasitic jager. See Jager. -- Par`a*sit"ic*al*ly, adv. -- Par`a*sit"ic*al*ness, n. (more info) 1.
• DROPPINGLY
  In drops.
• PARASITICIDE
  Anything used to destroy parasites. Quain.
• INCLUDED
  Inclosed; confined. Included stamens , such as are shorter than the floral envelopes, or are concealed within them.
• INDIAN
  river in Asia, L. Indus, Gr. Hindu, name of the land on the Indus, 1. Of or pertaining to India proper; also to the East Indies, or, sometimes, to the West Indies. 2. Of or pertaining to the aborigines, or Indians, of America; as, Indian wars;
• GENUS
  A class of objects divided into several subordinate species; a class more extensive than a species; a precisely defined and exactly divided class; one of the five predicable conceptions, or sorts of terms.
• DROPPING
  That which falls in drops; the excrement or dung of animals. Dropping bottle, an instrument used to supply small quantities of a fluid to a test tube or other vessel. -- Dropping fire, a continued irregular discharge of firearms. -- Dropping tube,
• INCLUDE
  1. To confine within; to hold; to contain; to shut up; to inclose; as, the shell of a nut includes the kernel; a pearl is included in a shell. 2. To comprehend or comprise, as a genus the species, the whole a part, an argument or reason
• SAPROPHYTIC
  Feeding or growing upon decaying anomal or vegetable matter; pertaining to a saprophyte or the saprophytes.
• DROPPER
  A branch vein which drops off from, or leaves, the main lode. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, drops. Specif.: A fly that drops from the leaden above the bob or end fly. 2. A dropping tube.
• INCLUDIBLE
  Capable of being included.
• EAVESDROPPER
  One who stands under the eaves, or near the window or door of a house, to listen; hence, a secret listener.
• EAST INDIAN
  Belonging to, or relating to, the East Indies. -- n.
• 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.
• EAVESDROPPING
  The habit of lurking about dwelling houses, and other places where persons meet fro private intercourse, secretly listening to what is said, and then tattling it abroad. The offense is indictable at common law. Wharton.
• WEST INDIAN
  A native of, or a dweller in, the West Indies.
• 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.
• EVESDROPPER
  See EAVESDROPPER