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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.

 

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