Word Meanings - SKYROCKET - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A rocket that ascends high and burns as it flies; a species of fireworks.

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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,
• ROCKET
  A cruciferous plant sometimes eaten in Europe as a salad. Damewort. Rocket larkspur. See below. Dyer's Rocket. See Dyer's broom, under Broom. -- Rocket larkspur , an annual plant with showy flowers in long racemes . -- Sea rocket , either
• ROCKETER
  A bird, especially a pheasant, which, being flushed, rises straight in the air like a rocket.
• BURNSTICKLE
  A stickleback .
• WATER ROCKET
  A cruciferous plant with small yellow flowers. 2. A kind of firework to be discharged in the water.
• CROCKET
  An ornament often resembling curved and bent foliage, projecting from the sloping edge of a gable, spire, etc. 2. A croche, or knob, on the top of a stag's antler. The antlers and the crockets. W. Black.
• CROCKETED
  Ornamented with crockets.
• SKYROCKET
  A rocket that ascends high and burns as it flies; a species of fireworks.
• CONGREVE ROCKET
  See ROCKET
• SEA ROCKET
  See ROCKET
• CROCKETING
  Ornamentation with crockets. Ruskin.
• SUBSPECIES
  A group somewhat lessdistinct than speciesusually are, but based on characters more important than those which characterize ordinary varieties; often, a geographical variety or race.
• BROCKET
  A male red deer two years old; -- sometimes called brock. (more info) fr. the same root as E. broach, meaning point (hence tine of a
• SPROCKET WHEEL
  See WHEEL