Word Meanings - PURSLANE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
An annual plant , with fleshy, succulent, obovate leaves, sometimes used as a pot herb and for salads, garnishing, and pickling. Flowering purslane, or Great flowered purslane, the Portulaca grandiflora. See Portulaca. -- Purslane tree, a South
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An annual plant , with fleshy, succulent, obovate leaves, sometimes used as a pot herb and for salads, garnishing, and pickling. Flowering purslane, or Great flowered purslane, the Portulaca grandiflora. See Portulaca. -- Purslane tree, a South African shrub with many small opposite fleshy obovate leaves. -- Sea purslane, a seashore plant with crowded opposite fleshy leaves. -- Water purslane, an aquatic plant but slightly resembling purslane.
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- OBOVATE
Inversely ovate; ovate with the narrow end downward; as, an obovate leaf. - SOUTHSAY
See SOOTHSAY - FLOWERY-KIRTLED
Dressed with garlands of flowers. Milton. - SOUTHWESTERLY
To ward or from the southwest; as, a southwesterly course; a southwesterly wind. - FLOWER-DE-LUCE
A genus of perennial herbs with swordlike leaves and large three-petaled flowers often of very gay colors, but probably white in the plant first chosen for the royal French emblem. Note: There are nearly one hundred species, natives of the north - ANNUALIST
One who writes for, or who edits, an annual. - GARNISHMENT
1. Ornament; embellishment; decoration. Sir H. Wotton. Warning, or legal notice, to one to appear and give information to the court on any matter. Warning to a person in whose hands the effects of another are attached, not to pay the - SOUTHERNLINESS
Southerliness. - GARNISHEE
One who is garnished; a person upon whom garnishment has been served in a suit by a creditor against a debtor, such person holding property belonging to the debtor, or owing him money. Note: The order by which warning is made is called a garnishee - GREAT-HEARTED
1. High-spirited; fearless. Clarendon. 2. Generous; magnanimous; noble. - FLOWERY
1. Full of flowers; abounding with blossoms. 2. Highly embellished with figurative language; florid; as, a flowery style. Milton. The flowery kingdom, China. - PURSLANE
An annual plant , with fleshy, succulent, obovate leaves, sometimes used as a pot herb and for salads, garnishing, and pickling. Flowering purslane, or Great flowered purslane, the Portulaca grandiflora. See Portulaca. -- Purslane tree, a South - GREAT-GRANDFATHER
The father of one's grandfather or grandmother. - FLOWERLESSNESS
State of being without flowers. - SOUTHREN
Southern. "I am a Southren man." Chaucer. - GARNISHER
One who, or that which, garnishes. - SUCCULENT
Full of juice; juicy. Succulent plants , plants which have soft and juicy leaves or stems, as the houseleek, the live forever, and the species of Mesembryanthemum. - PLANTIGRADA
A subdivision of Carnivora having plantigrade feet. It includes the bears, raccoons, and allied species. - FLOWERLESS
Having no flowers. Flowerless plants, plants which have no true flowers, and produce no seeds; cryptigamous plants. - SOMETIMES
1. Formerly; sometime. That fair and warlike form In which the majesty of buried Denmark Did sometimes march. Shak. 2. At times; at intervals; now and then;occasionally. It is good that we sometimes be contradicted. Jer. Taylor. Sometimes . . . - 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 - WINDFLOWER
The anemone; -- so called because formerly supposed to open only when the wind was blowing. See Anemone. - CAULIFLOWER
An annual variety of Brassica oleracea, or cabbage of which the cluster of young flower stalks and buds is eaten as a vegetable. 2. The edible head or "curd" of a caulifower plant. (more info) caulis, and by E. flower; F. chou cabbage is fr. L. - DEGARNISHMENT
The act of depriving, as of furniture, apparatus, or a garrison. - INGREAT
To make great; to enlarge; to magnify. Fotherby. - SEMIANNUALLY
Every half year.