Word Meanings - PENTASPERMOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Containing five seeds.

Related words: (words related to PENTASPERMOUS)

• CONTAINMENT
  That which is contained; the extent; the substance. The containment of a rich man's estate. Fuller.
• CONTAINANT
  A container.
• CONTAINABLE
  Capable of being contained or comprised. Boyle.
• CONTAINER
  One who, or that which, contains.
• SEEDSMAN
  1. A sower; one who sows or scatters seed. The seedsman Upon the slime and ooze scatters his grain. Shak. 2. A person who deals in seeds.
• CONTAIN
  1. To hold within fixed limits; to comprise; to include; to inclose; to hold. Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens can not contain thee; how much less this house! 2 Chron. vi. 18. When that this body did contain a spirit. Shak. What thy stores
• SELF-CONTAINED
  Having all the essential working parts connected by a bedplate or framework, or contained in a case, etc., so that mutual relations of the parts do not depend upon fastening outside of the machine itself. Self-contained steam engine.