Word Meanings - ANTHEMIS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Chamomile; a genus of composite, herbaceous plants.

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.
CHAMOMILE
See CAMOMILE
HERBACEOUS
Of or pertaining to herbs; having the nature, texture, or characteristics, of an herb; as, herbaceous plants; an herbaceous stem.
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.
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.
DECOMPOSITE
See 2 (more info) 1. Compounded more than once; compounded with things already composite.
INCOMPOSITE
Not composite; uncompounded; simple. Incomposite numbers. See Prime numbers, under Prime.
CAMOMILE; CHAMOMILE
A genus of herbs of the Composite family. The common camomile, A. nobilis, is used as a popular remedy. Its flowers have a strong and fragrant and a bitter, aromatic taste. They are tonic, febrifugal, and in large doses emetic, and the volatile