Word Meanings - SOLDIERWOOD - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A showy leguminous plant of the West Indies. The flowers have long tassels of purple stamens.

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• 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.
• 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.
• PURPLEHEART
  A strong, durable, and elastic wood of a purplish color, obtained from several tropical American leguminous trees of the genus Copaifera . Used for decorative veneering. See Copaiba.
• 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,
• PURPLE
  Any species of large butterflies, usually marked with purple or blue, of the genus Basilarchia as, the banded purple . See Illust. under Ursula. (more info) porpre, pourpre, F. pourpre, L. purpura purple fish, purple dye, fr. 1. A color formed
• PLANTICLE
  A young plant, or plant in embryo. E. Darwin.
• LEGUMINOUS
  Belonging to, or resembling, a very large natural order of plants , which bear legumes, including peas, beans, clover, locust trees, acacias, and mimosas. (more info) 1. Pertaining to pulse; consisting of pulse.
• PLANTAL
  Belonging to plants; as, plantal life. Dr. H. More.
• PLANTLET
  A little plant.
• PLANT-EATING
  Eating, or subsisting on, plants; as, a plant-eating beetle.
• PLANTAGE
  A word used once by Shakespeare to designate plants in general, or anything that is planted. As true as steel, as plantage to the moon. Shak. .
• PLANTAR
  Of or pertaining to the sole of the foot; as, the plantar arteries.
• PLANTING
  The laying of the first courses of stone in a foundation. (more info) 1. The act or operation of setting in the ground for propagation, as seeds, trees, shrubs, etc.; the forming of plantations, as of trees; the carrying on of plantations, as of
• PLANTER
  1. One who, or that which, plants or sows; as, a planterof corn; a machine planter. 2. One who owns or cultivates a plantation; as, a sugar planter; a coffee planter. 3. A colonist in a new or uncultivated territory; as, the first planters
• 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
• EMPURPLE
  To tinge or dye of a purple color; to color with purple; to impurple. "The deep empurpled ran." Philips.
• 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.
• 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.
• REPLANT
  To plant again.
• DISPLANT
  Etym: 1. To remove ; to unsettle and take away; to displace; to root out; as, to displant inhabitants. I did not think a look, Or a poor word or two, could have displanted Such a fixed constancy. Beau. & Fl. 2. To strip of what is planted