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Word Meanings - HENNOTANNIC - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Pertaining to, or designating, a brown resinous substance resembling tannin, and extracted from the henna plant; as, hennotannic acid.

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  • BROWNBACK
    The dowitcher or red-breasted snipe. See Dowitcher.
  • DESIGNATE
    Designated; appointed; chosen. Sir G. Buck.
  • 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.
  • EXTRACTABLE; EXTRACTIBLE
    Capable of being extracted.
  • 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.
  • RESINOUSNESS
    The quality of being resinous.
  • TANNIN
    See TANNIC
  • RESINOUS
    Of or pertaining to resin; of the nature of resin; resembling or obtained from resin. Resinous electricity , electricity which is exited by rubbing bodies of the resinous kind. See Negative electricity, under Negative.
  • PLANTOCRACY
    Government by planters; planters, collectively.
  • BROWNIE
    An imaginary good-natured spirit, who was supposed often to perform important services around the house by night, such as thrashing, churning, sweeping.
  • DESIGNATOR
    An officer who assigned to each his rank and place in public shows and ceremonies. 2. One who designates.
  • PLANTERSHIP
    The occupation or position of a planter, or the management of a plantation, as in the United States or the West Indies.
  • DESIGNATIVE
    Serving to designate or indicate; pointing out.
  • PLANTLESS
    Without plants; barren of vegetation.
  • BROWNNESS
    The quality or state of being brown. Now like I brown ; Only in brownness beauty dwelleth there. Drayton.
  • EXTRACT
    1. To draw out or forth; to pull out; to remove forcibly from a fixed position, as by traction or suction, etc.; as, to extract a tooth from its socket, a stump from the earth, a splinter from the finger. The bee Sits on the bloom extracting liquid
  • BROWNWORT
    A species of figwort or Scrophularia , and other species of the same genus, mostly perennials with inconspicuous coarse flowers.
  • RESEMBLINGLY
    So as to resemble; with resemblance or likeness.
  • BROWNISM
    The views or teachings of Robert Brown of the Brownists. Milton.
  • 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
  • GEHENNA
    The valley of Hinnom, near Jerusalem, where some of the Israelites sacrificed their children to Moloch, which, on this account, was afterward regarded as a place of abomination, and made a receptacle for all the refuse of the city, perpetual fires
  • STANNINE; STANNITE
    A mineral of a steel
  • 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.
  • SCHWANN'S WHITE SUBSTANCE
    The substance of the medullary sheath.
  • 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.
  • GOULARDS EXTRACT
    An aqueous solution of the subacetate of lead, used as a lotion in cases of inflammation. Goulard's cerate is a cerate containing this extract.

 

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