Word Meanings - TARWEED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A name given to several resinous-glandular composite plants of California, esp. to the species of Grindelia, Hemizonia, and Madia.

Related words: (words related to TARWEED)

• GLANDULAR
  Containing or supporting glands; consisting of glands; pertaining to glands.
• RESINOUSNESS
  The quality of being resinous.
• 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,
• RESINOUS
  Of or pertaining to resin; of the nature of resin; resembling or obtained from resin. Resinous electricity , electricity which is exited by rubbing bodies of the resinous kind. See Negative electricity, under Negative.
• COMPOSITE
  Belonging to a certain order which is composed of the Ionic order grafted upon the Corinthian. It is called also the Roman or the Italic order, and is one of the five orders recognized by the Italian writers of the sixteenth century. See Capital.
• GRINDELIA
  The dried stems and leaves of tarweed , used as a remedy in asthma and bronchitis.
• CALIFORNIA JACK
  A game at cards, a modification of seven-up, or all fours.
• SEVERALITY
  Each particular taken singly; distinction. Bp. Hall.
• SEVERALLY
  Separately; distinctly; apart from others; individually. There must be an auditor to check and revise each severally by itself. De Quincey.
• SEVERAL
  1. Separate; distinct; particular; single. Each several ship a victory did gain. Dryden. Each might his several province well command, Would all but stoop to what they understand. Pope. 2. Diverse; different; various. Spenser. Habits and faculties,
• SEVERALTY
  A state of separation from the rest, or from all others; a holding by individual right. Forests which had never been owned in severalty. Bancroft. Estate in severalty , an estate which the tenant holds in his own right, without being joined in
• GIVEN
  p. p. & a. from Give, v.
• MADIA
  A genus of composite plants, of which one species (Madia sativa) is cultivated for the oil yielded from its seeds by pressure. This oil is sometimes used instead of olive oil for the table.
• RESINOUSLY
  By means, or in the manner, of resin.
• CALIFORNIAN
  Of or pertaining to California. -- n.
• SEVERALIZE
  To distinguish.
• BIGLANDULAR
  Having two glands, as a plant.
• NOMADIAN
  A nomad.
• FORGIVENESS
  1. The act of forgiving; the state of being forgiven; as, the forgiveness of sin or of injuries. To the Lord our God belong mercies and forgivenesses. Dan. ix. 9. In whom we have . . . the forgiveness of sin. Eph. i. 7. 2. Disposition to pardon;
• DECOMPOSITE
  See 2 (more info) 1. Compounded more than once; compounded with things already composite.
• 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.
• ALMADIA; ALMADIE
  A bark canoe used by the Africans. A boat used at Calicut, in India, about eighty feet long, and six or seven broad.
• INCOMPOSITE
  Not composite; uncompounded; simple. Incomposite numbers. See Prime numbers, under Prime.