Word Meanings - PHAEOSPORE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A brownish zoöspore, characteristic of an order of dark green or olive-colored algæ. -- Phæ`o*spor"ic, a.
Related words: (words related to PHAEOSPORE)
- GREENLANDER
A native of Greenland. - COLORMAN
A vender of paints, etc. Simmonds. - GREENLET
l. One of numerous species of small American singing birds, of the genus Vireo, as the solitary, or blue-headed (Vireo solitarius); the brotherly-love ; the warbling greenlet ; the yellow-throated greenlet and others. See Vireo. 2. Any species - CHARACTERISTIC
Pertaining to, or serving to constitute, the character; showing the character, or distinctive qualities or traits, of a person or thing; peculiar; distinctive. Characteristic clearness of temper. Macaulay. - GREENSAND
A variety of sandstone, usually imperfectly consolidated, consisting largely of glauconite, a silicate of iron and potash of a green color, mixed with sand and a trace of phosphate of lime. Note: Greensand is often called marl, because - GREENFISH
See POLLOCK - GREENOCKITE
Native cadmium sulphide, a mineral occurring in yellow hexagonal crystals, also as an earthy incrustation. - OLIVERIAN
An adherent of Oliver Cromwell. Macaulay. - GREENHOUSE
A house in which tender plants are cultivated and sheltered from the weather. - OLIVED
Decorated or furnished with olive trees. T. Warton. - GREENWEED
See GREENBROOM - OLIVEWOOD
The wood of the olive. An Australian name given to the hard white wood of certain trees of the genus Elæodendron, and also to the trees themselves. - GREENHORN
A raw, inexperienced person; one easily imposed upon. W. Irving. - GREEN-STALL
A stall at which greens and fresh vegetables are exposed for sale. - 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. - GREENISH
Somewhat green; having a tinge of green; as, a greenish yellow. -- Green"ish*ness, n. - GREENBACKER
One of those who supported greenback or paper money, and opposed the resumption of specie payments. - GREENGAGE
A kind of plum of medium size, roundish shape, greenish flesh, and delicious flavor. It is called in France Reine Claude, after the queen of Francis I. See Gage. - GREENROOM
The retiring room of actors and actresses in a theater. - CONCOLOR
Of the same color; of uniform color. "Concolor animals." Sir T. Browne. - PHAEOSPORE
A brownish zoöspore, characteristic of an order of dark green or olive-colored algæ. -- Phæ`o*spor"ic, a. - IMBORDER
To furnish or inclose with a border; to form a border of. Milton. - EPISPORE
The thickish outer coat of certain spores. - AYEGREEN
The houseleek . Halliwell. - BRUNSWICK GREEN
An oxychloride of copper, used as a green pigment; also, a carbonate of copper similarly employed. - DIASPORE
A hydrate of alumina, often occurring in white lamellar masses with brilliant pearly luster; -- so named on account of its decrepitating when heated before the blowpipe. - MISORDER
To order ill; to manage erroneously; to conduct badly. Shak.