Word Meanings - CHICK-PEA - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A Small leguminous plant of Asia, Africa, and the sounth of Europe; the chick; the dwarf pea; the gram. 2. Its nutritious seed, used in cookery, and especially, when roasted , as food for travelers in the Eastern deserts.

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• CHICKEN-BREASTED
  Having a narrow, projecting chest, caused by forward curvature of the vertebral column.
• AFRICANISM
  A word, phrase, idiom, or custom peculiar to Africa or Africans. "The knotty Africanisms . . . of the fathers." Milton.
• CHICK
  To sprout, as seed in the ground; to vegetate. Chalmers.
• PLANTIGRADA
  A subdivision of Carnivora having plantigrade feet. It includes the bears, raccoons, and allied species.
• SMALLISH
  Somewhat small. G. W. Cable.
• PLANTULE
  The embryo which has begun its development in the act of germination.
• DWARFLING
  A diminutive dwarf.
• 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.
• 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
• PLANTOCRACY
  Government by planters; planters, collectively.
• CHICKABIDDY
  A chicken; a fowl; also, a trivial term of endearment for a child.
• EASTERN CHURCH
  That portion of the Christian church which prevails in the countries once comprised in the Eastern Roman Empire and the countries converted to Christianity by missionaries from them. Its full official title is The Orthodox Catholic Apostolic Eastern
• AFRICANIZE
  To place under the domination of Africans or negroes. Bartlett.
• PLANTERSHIP
  The occupation or position of a planter, or the management of a plantation, as in the United States or the West Indies.
• PLANTLESS
  Without plants; barren of vegetation.
• CHICK-PEA
  A Small leguminous plant of Asia, Africa, and the sounth of Europe; the chick; the dwarf pea; the gram. 2. Its nutritious seed, used in cookery, and especially, when roasted , as food for travelers in the Eastern deserts.
• CHICKADEE
  A small bird, the blackcap titmouse , of North America; -- named from its note.
• SMALLCLOTHES
  A man's garment for the hips and thighs; breeches. See Breeches.
• SMALLPOX
  A contagious, constitutional, febrile disease characterized by a peculiar eruption; variola. The cutaneous eruption is at first a collection of papules which become vesicles (first flat, subsequently umbilicated) and then pustules, and finally thick
• PLANT-CANE
  A stalk or shoot of sugar cane of the first growth from the cutting. The growth of the second and following years is of inferior quality, and is called rattoon.
• 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
• PLEUROPERITONEUM
  The pleural and peritoneal membranes, or the membrane lining the body cavity and covering the surface of the inclosed viscera; the peritoneum; -- used especially in the case of those animals in which the body cavity is not divided. Note: Peritoneum
• DISMALLY
  In a dismal manner; gloomily; sorrowfully; uncomfortably.
• DOBCHICK
  See DABCHICK
• LAMINIPLANTAR
  Having the tarsus covered behind with a horny sheath continuous on both sides, as in most singing birds, except the larks.
• ELLACHICK
  A fresh-water tortoise of California; -- used as food.
• DIPCHICK
  See DABCHICK
• IMPLANTATION
  The act or process of implantating.
• DABCHICK
  A small water bird , allied to the grebes, remarkable for its quickness in diving; -- called also dapchick, dobchick, dipchick, didapper, dobber, devil-diver, hell-diver, and pied-billed grebe.
• EGGPLANT
  A plant , of East Indian origin, allied to the tomato, and bearing a large, smooth, edible fruit, shaped somewhat like an egg; mad-apple.