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Word Meanings - BREADROOT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The root of a leguminous plant , found near the Rocky Mountains. It is usually oval in form, and abounds in farinaceous matter, affording sweet and palatable food. Note: It is the Pomme blanche of Canadian voyageurs.

Related words: (words related to BREADROOT)

  • SWEETLY
    In a sweet manner.
  • SWEETISH
    Somewhat sweet. -- Sweet"ish*ness, n.
  • SWEETING
    1. A sweet apple. Ascham. 2. A darling; -- a word of endearment. Shak.
  • SWEETHEART
    A lover of mistress.
  • FOUNDATION
    The lowest and supporting part or member of a wall, including the base course , under Base, n.) and footing courses; in a frame house, the whole substructure of masonry. 4. A donation or legacy appropriated to support a charitable institution,
  • FOUNDER
    One who founds, establishes, and erects; one who lays a foundation; an author; one from whom anything originates; one who endows.
  • SWEETROOT
    Licorice.
  • PLANTIGRADA
    A subdivision of Carnivora having plantigrade feet. It includes the bears, raccoons, and allied species.
  • PLANTULE
    The embryo which has begun its development in the act of germination.
  • PLANTIGRADE
    Walking on the sole of the foot; pertaining to the plantigrades. Having the foot so formed that the heel touches the ground when the leg is upright.
  • SWEETENING
    1. The act of making sweet. 2. That which sweetens.
  • FOUND
    imp. & p. p. of Find.
  • FOUNDATIONER
    One who derives support from the funds or foundation of a college or school.
  • FOUNDEROUS
    Difficult to travel; likely to trip one up; as, a founderous road. Burke.
  • SWEETEN
    Etym: 1. To make sweet to the taste; as, to sweeten tea. 2. To make pleasing or grateful to the mind or feelings; as, to sweeten life; to sweeten friendship. 3. To make mild or kind; to soften; as, to sweeten the temper. 4. To make less painful
  • SWEETNESS
    The quality or state of being sweet (in any sense of the adjective); gratefulness to the taste or to the smell; agreeableness.
  • PLANTOCRACY
    Government by planters; planters, collectively.
  • PLANTERSHIP
    The occupation or position of a planter, or the management of a plantation, as in the United States or the West Indies.
  • SWEETWORT
    Any plant of a sweet taste.
  • POMMETTE
    Having two balls or protuberances at each end; -- said of a cross.
  • IMPALATABLE
    Unpalatable.
  • DISPLANTATION
    The act of displanting; removal; displacement. Sir W. Raleigh.
  • SUPPLANT
    heels, to throw down; sub under + planta the sole of the foot, also, 1. To trip up. "Supplanted, down he fell." Milton. 2. To remove or displace by stratagem; to displace and take the place of; to supersede; as, a rival supplants another in the
  • CONFOUNDED
    1. Confused; perplexed. A cloudy and confounded philosopher. Cudworth. 2. Excessive; extreme; abominable. He was a most confounded tory. Swift. The tongue of that confounded woman. Sir. W. Scott.
  • LAMINIPLANTAR
    Having the tarsus covered behind with a horny sheath continuous on both sides, as in most singing birds, except the larks.
  • IMPLANTATION
    The act or process of implantating.
  • CROCKY
    Smutty.

 

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