Word Meanings - SAXIFRAGA - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A genus of exogenous polypetalous plants, embracing about one hundred and eighty species. See Saxifrage.

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• SPECIES
  A group of individuals agreeing in common attributes, and designated by a common name; a conception subordinated to another conception, called a genus, or generic conception, from which it differs in containing or comprehending more attributes,
• EXOGENOUS
  Pertaining to, or having the character of, an exogen; -- the opposite of endogenous.
• EIGHTY
  Eight times ten; fourscore.
• HUNDREDER
  A person competent to serve on a jury, in an action for land in the hundred to which he belongs. 3. One who has the jurisdiction of a hundred; and sometimes, a bailiff of a hundred. Blount. Cowell. (more info) 1. An inhabitant or freeholder of
• POLYPETALOUS
  Consisting of, or having, several or many separate petals; as, a polypetalous corolla, flower, or plant. Martyn.
• ABOUT
  On the point or verge of; going; in act of. Paul was now aboutto open his mouth. Acts xviii. 14. 7. Concerning; with regard to; on account of; touching. "To treat about thy ransom." Milton. She must have her way about Sarah. Trollope. (more info)
• EMBRACEOR
  One guilty of embracery.
• EMBRACERY
  An attempt to influence a court, jury, etc., corruptly, by promises, entreaties, money, entertainments, threats, or other improper inducements.
• EMBRACIVE
  Disposed to embrace; fond of caressing. Thackeray.
• SAXIFRAGE
  Any plant of the genus Saxifraga, mostly perennial herbs growing in crevices of rocks in mountainous regions. Burnet saxifrage, a European umbelliferous plant . -- Golden saxifrage, a low half-sacculent herb (Chrysosplenium oppositifolium) growing
• 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.
• EMBRACE
  To fasten on, as armor. Spenser.
• EMBRACER
  One who embraces.
• EMBRACEMENT
  1. A clasp in the arms; embrace. Dear though chaste embracements. Sir P. Sidney. 2. State of being contained; inclosure. In the embracement of the parts hardly reparable, as bones. Bacon. 3. Willing acceptance. A ready embracement of . . . his
• HUNDRED
  hund hundred + a word akin to Goth. ga-ra to count, L. ratio reckoning, account; akin to OS. hunderod, hund, D. hondred, G. hundert, OHG. also hunt, Icel. hundra, Dan. hundrede, Sw. hundra, hundrade, Goth. hund, Lith. szimtas, Russ. sto, W. cant,
• ABOUT-SLEDGE
  The largest hammer used by smiths. Weale.
• HUNDREDTH
  1. Coming last of a hundred successive individuals or units. 2. Forming one of a hundred equal parts into which anything is divided; the tenth of a tenth.
• HUNDREDWEIGHT
  A denomination of weight, containing 100, 112, or 120 pounds avoirdupois, according to differing laws or customs. By the legal standard of England it is 112 pounds. In most of the United States, both in practice and by law, it is 100 pounds
• HUNDREDFOLD
  A hundred times as much or as many. He shall receive as hundredfold now in this time. Mark x. 30.
• ROUNDABOUTNESS
  The quality of being roundabout; circuitousness.
• SLEIGHTY
  Cunning; sly. Huloet.
• 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.
• RACEABOUT
  A small sloop-rigged racing yacht carrying about six hundred square feet of sail, distinguished from a knockabout by having a short bowsprit.
• STIRABOUT
  A dish formed of oatmeal boiled in water to a certain consistency and frequently stirred, or of oatmeal and dripping mixed together and stirred about in a pan; a hasty pudding.
• THUNDROUS
  Thunderous; sonorous. "Scraps of thunderous epic." Tennyson.
• MARABOUT
  A Mohammedan saint; especially, one who claims to work cures supernaturally.
• WEIGHTY
  1. Having weight; heavy; ponderous; as, a weighty body. 2. Adapted to turn the balance in the mind, or to convince; important; forcible; serious; momentous. "For sundry weighty reasons." Shak. Let me have your advice in a weighty affair. Swift.
• CHILTERN HUNDREDS
  A tract of crown land in Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire, England, to which is attached the nominal office of steward. As members of Parliament cannot resign, when they wish to go out they accept this stewardship, which legally vacates their seats.
• HAULABOUT
  A bargelike vessel with steel hull, large hatchways, and coal transporters, for coaling war vessels from its own hold or from other colliers.