Word Meanings - CIRCUMNUTATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database
The successive bowing or bending in different directions of the growing tip of the stems of many plants, especially seen in climbing plants.
Related words: (words related to CIRCUMNUTATION)
- GROWLER
The large-mouthed black bass. 3. A four-wheeled cab. (more info) 1. One who growls. - BOW OAR
. 1. The oar used by the bowman. 2. One who rows at the bow of a boat. - GROWL
To utter a deep guttural sound, sa an angry dog; to give forth an angry, grumbling sound. Gay. - DIFFERENTIALLY
In the way of differentiation. - BOWGE
To swell out. See Bouge. - BOWKNOT
A knot in which a portion of the string is drawn through in the form of a loop or bow, so as to be readily untied. - CLIMB
To ascend or creep upward by twining about a support, or by attaching itself by tendrills, rootlets, etc., to a support or upright surface. (more info) 1. To ascend or mount laboriously, esp. by use of the hands and feet. 2. To ascend as if with - BOWYER
1. An archer; one who uses bow. 2. One who makes or sells bows. - BOWLER
One who plays at bowls, or who rolls the ball in cricket or any other game. - DIFFERENTLY
In a different manner; variously. - BOWNE
To make ready; to prepare; to dress. We will all bowne ourselves for the banquet. Sir W. Scott. - BENDER
1. One who, or that which, bends. 2. An instrument used for bending. 3. A drunken spree. Bartlett. 4. A sixpence. - BOWHEAD
The great Arctic or Greenland whale. . See Baleen, and Whale. - DIFFERENT
1. Distinct; separate; not the same; other. "Five different churches." Addison. 2. Of various or contrary nature, form, or quality; partially or totally unlike; dissimilar; as, different kinds of food or drink; different states of health; different - BOW NET
. 1. A trap for lobsters, being a wickerwork cylinder with a funnel- shaped entrance at one end. 2. A net for catching birds. J. H. Walsh. - BOWIE KNIFE
A knife with a strong blade from ten to fifteen inches long, and double-edged near the point; -- used as a hunting knife, and formerly as a weapon in the southwestern part of the United States. It was named from its inventor, Colonel James Bowie. - BOWENITE
A hard, compact variety of serpentine found in Rhode Island. It is of a light green color and resembles jade. - BOWLEG
A crooked leg. Jer. Taylor. - BOWESS
See BOWER - GROWAN
A decomposed granite, forming a mass of gravel, as in tin lodes in Cornwall. - EMBOWER
To lodge or rest in a bower. "In their wide boughs embow'ring. " Spenser. (more info) -- v. i. - DISEMBOWERED
Deprived of, or removed from, a bower. Bryant. - UPGROW
To grow up. Milton. - EMBOWL
To form like a bowl; to give a globular shape to. Sir P. Sidney. - INDIFFERENTLY
In an indifferent manner; without distinction or preference; impartially; without concern, wish, affection, or aversion; tolerably; passably. That they may truly and indifferently minister justice, to the punishment of wickedness and vice, and to - FULL-GROWN
Having reached the limits of growth; mature. "Full-grown wings." Lowell. - MISGROWTH
Bad growth; an unnatural or abnormal growth. - OUTCLIMB
To climb bevond; to surpass in climbing. Davenant. - OVERBEND
To bend to excess.