Word Meanings - YELLOWROOT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Any one of several plants with yellow roots. Specifically: See Xanthorhiza. Same as Orangeroot.

Related words: (words related to YELLOWROOT)

• YELLOW-GOLDS
  A certain plant, probably the yellow oxeye. B. Jonson.
• YELLOWTOP
  A kind of grass, perhaps a species of Agrostis.
• YELLOWFISH
  A rock trout found on the coast of Alaska; -- called also striped fish, and Atka mackerel.
• SPECIFICALLY
  In a specific manner.
• YELLOW
  Being of a bright saffronlike color; of the color of gold or brass; having the hue of that part of the rainbow, or of the solar spectrum, which is between the orange and the green. Her yellow hair was browded in a tress. Chaucer. A sweaty reaper
• YELLOWBILL
  The American scoter.
• YELLOWWOOD
  The wood of any one of several different kinds of trees; also, any one of the trees themselves. Among the trees so called are the Cladrastis tinctoria, an American leguminous tree; the several species of prickly ash ; the Australian Flindersia
• YELLOWHAMMER
  A common European finch . The color of the male is bright yellow on the breast, neck, and sides of the head, with the back yellow and brown, and the top of the head and the tail quills blackish. Called also yellow bunting, scribbling lark, and
• YELLOWLEGS
  Any one of several species of long-legged sandpipers of the genus Totanus, in which the legs are bright yellow; -- called also stone snipe, tattler, telltale, yellowshanks; and yellowshins. See Tattler, 2.
• ROOTSTOCK
  A perennial underground stem, producing leafly s
• 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,
• SEVERALITY
  Each particular taken singly; distinction. Bp. Hall.
• YELLOWBIRD
  The American goldfinch, or thistle bird. See Goldfinch. The common yellow warbler; -- called also summer yellowbird. See Illust. of Yellow warbler, under Yellow, a.
• YELLOW-COVERED
  Covered or bound in yellow paper. Yellow-covered literature, cheap sensational novels and trashy magazines; -- formerly so called from the usual color of their covers. Bartlett.
• SEVERALLY
  Separately; distinctly; apart from others; individually. There must be an auditor to check and revise each severally by itself. De Quincey.
• YELLOWAMMER
  See YELLOW-HAMMER
• 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
• YELLOWROOT
  Any one of several plants with yellow roots. Specifically: See Xanthorhiza. Same as Orangeroot.
• YELLOWFIN
  A large squeteague.
• YELLOWS
  A disease of the bile in horses, cattle, and sheep, causing yellowness of the eyes; jaundice. His horse . . . sped with spavins, rayed with the yellows. Shak.
• PEGROOTS
  See SETTERWORT
• NAPLES YELLOW
  See YELLOW