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Word Meanings - BUNCHBERRY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The dwarf cornel , which bears a dense cluster of bright red, edible berries.

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  • BRIGHT
    See I
  • EDIBLENESS
    Suitableness for being eaten.
  • DENSE
    1. Having the constituent parts massed or crowded together; close; compact; thick; containing much matter in a small space; heavy; opaque; as, a dense crowd; a dense forest; a dense fog. All sorts of bodies, firm and fluid, dense and rare. Ray.
  • DWARFLING
    A diminutive dwarf.
  • CLUSTERY
    Growing in, or full of, clusters; like clusters. Johnson.
  • WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
    Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
  • DWARF
    An animal or plant which is much below the ordinary size of its species or kind; especially, a diminutive human being. Note: During the Middle Ages dwarfs as well as fools shared the favor of courts and the nobility. Note: Dwarf is used adjectively
  • DENSELY
    In a dense, compact manner.
  • WHICH
    the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
  • BRIGHTSOME
    Bright; clear; luminous; brilliant. Marlowe.
  • DENSENESS
    The quality of being dense; density.
  • BRIGHTNESS
    1. The quality or state of being bright; splendor; luster; brilliancy; clearness. A sudden brightness in his face appear. Crabbe. 2. Acuteness ; sharpness 9wit. The brightness of his parts . . . distinguished him. Prior. Syn. -- Splendor; luster;
  • CLUSTER
    1. A number of things of the same kind growing together; a bunch. Her deeds were like great clusters of ripe grapes, Which load the bunches of the fruitful vine. Spenser. 2. A number of similar things collected together or lying contiguous;
  • EDIBLE
    Fit to be eaten as food; eatable; esculent; as, edible fishes. Bacon. -- n.
  • BRIGHT'S DISEASE
    An affection of the kidneys, usually inflammatory in character, and distinguished by the occurrence of albumin and renal casts in the urine. Several varieties of Bright's disease are now recognized, differing in the part of the kidney involved,
  • DWARFISH
    Like a dwarf; below the common stature or size; very small; petty; as, a dwarfish animal, shrub. -- Dwarf"ish*ly, adv. -- Dwarf"ish*ness, n.
  • CORNEL
    The cornelian cherry , a European shrub with clusters of small, greenish flowers, followed by very acid but edible drupes resembling cherries. 2. Any species of the genus Cornus, as C. florida, the flowering cornel; C. stolonifera, the
  • CLUSTERINGLY
    In clusters.
  • BRIGHTEN
    Note: 1. To make bright or brighter; to make to shine; to increase the luster of; to give a brighter hue to. 2. To make illustrious, or more distinguished; to add luster or splendor to. The present queen would brighten her character, if she would
  • BRIGHTLY
    1. Brilliantly; splendidly; with luster; as, brightly shining armor. 2. With lively intelligence; intelligently. Looking brightly into the mother's face. Hawthorne.
  • INCREDIBLENESS
    Incredibility.
  • EMBRIGHT
    To brighten.
  • CONDENSER
    An apparatus for receiving and condensing the volatile products of distillation to a liquid or solid form, by cooling. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, condenses. 2. An instrument for condensing air or other elastic fluids, consisting
  • UNCREDIBLE
    Incredible. Bacon.
  • OBEDIBLE
    Obedient. Bp. Hall.
  • CONDENSE
    To reduce into another and denser form, as by cold or pressure; as, to condense gas into a liquid form, or steam into water. Condensed milk, milk reduced to the consistence of very thick cream by evaporation for preservation and transportation.
  • CREDIBLE
    Capable of being credited or believed; worthy of belief; entiled to confidence; trustworthy. Things are made credible either by the known condition and quality of the utterer or by the manifest likelihood of truth in themselves. Hooker.
  • WALDENSES
    A sect of dissenters from the ecclesiastical system of the Roman Catholic Church, who in the 13th century were driven by persecution to the valleys of Piedmont, where the sect survives. They profess substantially Protestant principles.

 

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