Word Meanings - MALABAR - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A region in the western part of the Peninsula of India, between the mountains and the sea. Malabar nut , the seed of an East Indian acanthaceous shrub, the Adhatoda Vasica, sometimes used medicinally.
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- INDIANEER
An Indiaman. - SOMETIMES
1. Formerly; sometime. That fair and warlike form In which the majesty of buried Denmark Did sometimes march. Shak. 2. At times; at intervals; now and then;occasionally. It is good that we sometimes be contradicted. Jer. Taylor. Sometimes . . . - INDIA RUBBER
. See Caoutchouc. - SHRUBBY
1. Full of shrubs. 2. Of the nature of a shrub; resembling a shrub. "Shrubby browse." J. Philips. - SHRUBLESS
having no shrubs. Byron. - ACANTHACEOUS
Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the family of plants of which the acanthus is the type. (more info) 1. Armed with prickles, as a plant. - INDIAMAN
A large vessel in the India trade. Macaulay. - SHRUBBINESS
Quality of being shrubby. - INDIA STEEL
See WOOTZ - WESTERNER
A native or inhabitant of the west. - MEDICINALLY
In a medicinal manner. - MALABAR
A region in the western part of the Peninsula of India, between the mountains and the sea. Malabar nut , the seed of an East Indian acanthaceous shrub, the Adhatoda Vasica, sometimes used medicinally. - INDIADEM
To place or set in a diadem, as a gem or gems. - WESTERN
1. Of or pertaining to the west; situated in the west, or in the region nearly in the direction of west; being in that quarter where the sun sets; as, the western shore of France; the western ocean. Far o'er the glowing western main. Keble. 2. - REGIONAL
Of or pertaining to a particular region; sectional. - WESTERNMOST
Situated the farthest towards the west; most western. - BETWEEN
betweónum; prefix be- by + a form fr. AS. twa two, akin to Goth. 1. In the space which separates; betwixt; as, New York is between Boston and Philadelphia. 2. Used in expressing motion from one body or place to another; from one to another of - SHRUB
A liquor composed of vegetable acid, especially lemon juice, and sugar, with spirit to preserve it. - 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; - PENINSULATE
To form into a peninsula. South River . . . peninsulates Castle Hill farm. W. Bentley. - EAST INDIAN
Belonging to, or relating to, the East Indies. -- n. - PHOTIC REGION
The uppermost zone of the sea, which receives the most light. - LINDIA
A peculiar genus of rotifers, remarkable for the absence of ciliated disks. By some zoölogists it is thought to be like the ancestral form of the Arthropoda. - NORTHWESTERN
Of, pertaining to, or being in, the northwest; in a direction toward the northwest; coming from the northwest; northwesterly; as, a northwestern course. - UNSHRUBBED
Being without shrubs. - WEST INDIAN
A native of, or a dweller in, the West Indies. - GO-BETWEEN
An intermediate agent; a broker; a procurer; -- usually in a disparaging sense. Shak. - 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.