Word Meanings - ACONITIC - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of or pertaining to aconite.

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• PERTAIN
  stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
• ACONITE
  The herb wolfsbane, or monkshood; -- applied to any plant of the genus Aconitum , all the species of which are poisonous. 2. An extract or tincture obtained from Aconitum napellus, used as a poison and medicinally. Winter aconite, a plant allied
• ANTHRACONITE
  A coal-black marble, usually emitting a fetid smell when rubbed; -- called also stinkstone and swinestone.
• MELACONITE
  An earthy black oxide of copper, arising from the decomposition of other ores.
• APPERTAIN
  To belong or pertain, whether by right, nature, appointment, or custom; to relate. Things appertaining to this life. Hooker. Give it unto him to whom it appertaineth. Lev. vi. 5. (more info) appartenir, fr. L. appertinere; ad + pertinere to reach