Word Meanings - HORSEWOOD - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A West Indian tree with showy, crimson blossoms.

Related words: (words related to HORSEWOOD)

• INDIANEER
  An Indiaman.
• CRIMSON
  A deep red color tinged with blue; also, red color in general. Theugh jour be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. Is. i. 18. A maid jet rosed over with the virgin crimson of modesty.
• INDIAN
  river in Asia, L. Indus, Gr. Hindu, name of the land on the Indus, 1. Of or pertaining to India proper; also to the East Indies, or, sometimes, to the West Indies. 2. Of or pertaining to the aborigines, or Indians, of America; as, Indian wars;
• SHOWY
  , a. Etym:
• EAST INDIAN
  Belonging to, or relating to, the East Indies. -- n.
• WEST INDIAN
  A native of, or a dweller in, the West Indies.
• WEST INDIA; WEST INDIAN
  Belonging or relating to the West Indies. West India tea , a shrubby plant having oblanceolate toothed leaves which are sometimes used in the West Indies as a substitute for tea.
• ENCRIMSON
  To give a crimson or red color to; to crimson. Shak.