Word Meanings - SPARROWWORT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An evergreen shrub of the genus Erica .

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• SHRUBBY
  1. Full of shrubs. 2. Of the nature of a shrub; resembling a shrub. "Shrubby browse." J. Philips.
• EVERGREEN
  An evergreen plant. 2. pl.
• SHRUBLESS
  having no shrubs. Byron.
• ERICA
  A genus of shrubby plants, including the heaths, many of them producing beautiful flowers.
• SHRUBBINESS
  Quality of being shrubby.
• ERICACEOUS
  Belonging to the Heath family, or resembling plants of that family; consisting of heats.
• SHRUB
  A liquor composed of vegetable acid, especially lemon juice, and sugar, with spirit to preserve it.
• 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.
• SHRUBBERY
  1. A collection of shrubs. 2. A place where shrubs are planted. Macaulay.
• EVERGREEN STATE
  Washington; -- a nickname alluding to the abundance of evergreen trees.
• ALEXITERIC; ALEXITERICAL
  Resisting poison; obviating the effects of venom; alexipharmic.
• CLERICALISM
  An excessive devotion to the interests of the sacerdotal order; undue influence of the clergy; sacerdotalism.
• CONGENERIC; CONGENERICAL
  Belonging to the same genus; allied in origin, nature, or action. R. Owen.
• ICTERIC; ICTERICAL
  1. Pertaining to, or affected with, jaundice. 2. Good against the jaundice. Johnson.
• PERICARDIC
  Pericardiac.
• AMERICANIZATION
  The process of Americanizing.
• ATMOSPHERICALLY
  In relation to the atmosphere.
• MERICARP
  One carpel of an umbelliferous fruit. See Cremocarp.
• SUBSPHERICAL
  Nearly spherical; having a figure resembling that of a sphere.
• 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.
• CHIMERICAL
  Merely imaginary; fanciful; fantastic; wildly or vainly conceived; having, or capable of having, no existence except in thought; as, chimerical projects. Syn. -- Imaginary; fanciful; fantastic; wild; unfounded; vain; deceitful; delusive.
• DEXTERICAL
  Dexterous.
• HEMISPHERIC; HEMISPHERICAL
  Containing, or pertaining to, a hemisphere; as, a hemispheric figure or form; a hemispherical body.
• ESOTERICALLY
  In an esoteric manner.
• AMERICAN
  1. Of or pertaining to America; as, the American continent: American Indians. 2. Of or pertaining to the United States. "A young officer of the American navy." Lyell. American ivy. See Virginia creeper. -- American Party , a party, about 1854,
• PHYLACTERIC; PHYLACTERICAL
  Of or pertaining to phylacteries.
• PERICARP
  The ripened ovary; the walls of the fruit. See Illusts. of Capsule, Drupe, and Legume.
• AMERICANISM
  1. Attachment to the United States. 2. A custom peculiar to the United States or to America; an American characteristic or idea. 3. A word or phrase peculiar to the United States.