Word Meanings - CARROT - Book Publishers vocabulary database
An umbelliferous biennial plant , of many varieties. 2. The esculent root of cultivated varieties of the plant, usually spindle-shaped, and of a reddish yellow color.
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- COLORMAN
A vender of paints, etc. Simmonds. - 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. - SPINDLE-SHAPED
Thickest in the middle, and tapering to both ends; fusiform; -- applied chiefly to roots. (more info) 1. Having the shape of a spindle. - SPINDLESHANKS
A person with slender shanks, or legs; -- used humorously or in contempt. - PLANTIGRADA
A subdivision of Carnivora having plantigrade feet. It includes the bears, raccoons, and allied species. - CULTIVATABLE
Cultivable. - PLANTULE
The embryo which has begun its development in the act of germination. - SPINDLEWORM
The larva of a noctuid mmoth which feeds inside the stalks of corn , sometimes causing much damage. It is smooth, with a black head and tail and a row of black dots across each segment. - REDDISH
Somewhat red; moderately red. -- Red"dish*ness, n. - COLORATE
Colored. Ray. - COLORIMETRY
The quantitative determination of the depth of color of a substance. 2. A method of quantitative chemical analysis based upon the comparison of the depth of color of a solution with that of a standard liquid. - SHAPE
is from the strong verb, AS. scieppan, scyppan, sceppan, p. p. 1. To form or create; especially, to mold or make into a particular form; to give proper form or figure to. I was shapen in iniquity. Ps. li. 5. Grace shaped her limbs, and - YELLOW
1. A bright golden color, reflecting more light than any other except white; the color of that part of the spectrum which is between the orange and green. "A long motley coat guarded with yellow." Shak. 2. A yellow pigment. Cadmium yellow, Chrome - COLOR
1. To change or alter the bue or tint of, by dyeing, staining, painting, etc.; to dye; to tinge; to aint; to stain. The rays, to speak properly, are not colored; in them there is nothing else than a certain power and disposition to stir - SPINDLETAIL
The pintail duck. - PLANTOCRACY
Government by planters; planters, collectively. - YELLOWBILL
The American scoter. - COLORADO BEETLE
A yellowish beetle , with ten longitudinal, black, dorsal stripes. It has migrated eastwards from its original habitat in Colorado, and is very destructive to the potato plant; -- called also potato beetle and potato bug. See Potato beetle. - 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 - MISHAPPEN
To happen ill or unluckily. Spenser. - CONCOLOR
Of the same color; of uniform color. "Concolor animals." Sir T. Browne. - DIAMOND-SHAPED
Shaped like a diamond or rhombus. - STRAP-SHAPED
Shaped like a strap; ligulate; as, a strap-shaped corolla. - ISABELLA; ISABELLA COLOR
A brownish yellow color. (more info) Spanish princess Isabella, daughter of king Philip II., in allusion to the color assumed by her shift, which she wore without change from - LAMINIPLANTAR
Having the tarsus covered behind with a horny sheath continuous on both sides, as in most singing birds, except the larks. - AWL-SHAPED
Subulate. See Subulate. Gray. (more info) 1. Shaped like an awl.