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Word Meanings - SPOONWOOD - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The mountain laurel .

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  • MOUNTAINOUS
    1. Full of, or containing, mountains; as, the mountainous country of the Swiss. 2. Inhabiting mountains. Bacon. 3. Large as, or resembling, a mountain; huge; of great bulk; as, a mountainous heap. Prior.
  • MOUNTAINOUSNESS
    The state or quality of being mountainous.
  • MOUNTAIN
    A range, chain, or group of such elevations; as, the White Mountains. 3. A mountainlike mass; something of great bulk. I should have been a mountain of mummy. Shak. The Mountain , a popular name given in 1793 to a party of extreme Jacobins in
  • LAURELED
    Crowned with laurel, or with a laurel wreath; laureate.
  • LAUREL
    An evergreen shrub, of the genus Laurus , having aromatic leaves of a lanceolate shape, with clusters of small, yellowish white flowers in their axils; -- called also sweet bay. Note: The fruit is a purple berry. It is found about the
  • MOUNTAIN STATE
    Montana; -- a nickname.
  • MOUNTAINEER
    1. An inhabitant of a mountain; one who lives among mountains. 2. A rude, fierce person. No savage fierce, bandit, or mountaineer. Milton.
  • MOUNTAINET
    A small mountain.
  • MOUNTAINER
    A mountaineer.
  • MOUNTAIN SPECTER
    An optical phenomenon sometimes seen on the summit of mountains when the observer is between the sun and a mass of cloud. The figures of the observer and surrounding objects are seen projected on the cloud, greatly enlarged and often encircled by
  • POLY-MOUNTAIN
    Same as Poly, n. The closely related Teucrium montanum, formerly called Polium montanum, a plant of Southern Europe. The Bartsia alpina, a low purple-flowered herb of Europe.

 

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