Word Meanings - RUPTUREWORT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Same as Burstwort. A West Indian plant somewhat resembling burstwort.

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• INDIANEER
  An Indiaman.
• PLANTIGRADA
  A subdivision of Carnivora having plantigrade feet. It includes the bears, raccoons, and allied species.
• 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.
• SOMEWHAT
  1. More or less; a certain quantity or degree; a part, more or less; something. These salts have somewhat of a nitrous taste. Grew. Somewhat of his good sense will suffer, in this transfusion, and much of the beauty of his thoughts will be lost.
• PLANTOCRACY
  Government by planters; planters, collectively.
• 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.
• RESEMBLINGLY
  So as to resemble; with resemblance or likeness.
• PLANT-CANE
  A stalk or shoot of sugar cane of the first growth from the cutting. The growth of the second and following years is of inferior quality, and is called rattoon.
• PLANTED
  Fixed in place, as a projecting member wrought on a separate piece of stuff; as, a planted molding.
• PLANTAIN
  A treelike perennial herb of tropical regions, bearing immense leaves and large clusters of the fruits called plantains. See Musa. 2. The fruit of this plant. It is long and somewhat cylindrical, slightly curved, and, when ripe, soft, fleshy,
• RESEMBLANT
  Having or exhibiting resemblance; resembling. Gower.
• PLANTICLE
  A young plant, or plant in embryo. E. Darwin.
• 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;
• PLANTAL
  Belonging to plants; as, plantal life. Dr. H. More.
• PLANTLET
  A little plant.
• RESEMBLE
  sembler to seem, resemble, fr. L. similare, simulare, to imitate, fr. 1. To be like or similar to; to bear the similitude of, either in appearance or qualities; as, these brothers resemble each other. We will resemble you in that. Shak.
• RESEMBLABLE
  Admitting of being compared; like. Gower.
• PLANT-EATING
  Eating, or subsisting on, plants; as, a plant-eating beetle.
• 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
• EAST INDIAN
  Belonging to, or relating to, the East Indies. -- n.
• 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.
• EGGPLANT
  A plant , of East Indian origin, allied to the tomato, and bearing a large, smooth, edible fruit, shaped somewhat like an egg; mad-apple.
• WEST INDIAN
  A native of, or a dweller in, the West Indies.
• DEPLANT
  To take up ; to transplant.
• FLAX-PLANT
  A plant in new Zealand , allied to the lilies and aloes. The leaves are two inches wide and several feet long, and furnish a fiber which is used for making ropes, mats, and coarse cloth.
• PIEPLANT
  A plant the leafstalks of which are acid, and are used in making pies; the garden rhubarb.