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Word Meanings - MENTHA - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A widely distributed genus of fragrant herbs, including the peppermint, spearmint, etc. The plants have small flowers, usually arranged in dense axillary clusters.

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  • DISTRIBUTIVENESS
    Quality of being distributive.
  • DENSE
    1. Having the constituent parts massed or crowded together; close; compact; thick; containing much matter in a small space; heavy; opaque; as, a dense crowd; a dense forest; a dense fog. All sorts of bodies, firm and fluid, dense and rare. Ray.
  • SMALLISH
    Somewhat small. G. W. Cable.
  • FRAGRANT
    fragrance: cf. OF. fragrant. Affecting the olfactory nerves agreeably; sweet of smell; odorous; having or emitting an agreeable perfume. Fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers. Milton. Syn. -- Sweet-smelling; odorous; odoriferous;
  • DISTRIBUTABLE
    Capable of being distributed. Sir W. Jones.
  • DENSELY
    In a dense, compact manner.
  • SMALLCLOTHES
    A man's garment for the hips and thighs; breeches. See Breeches.
  • INCLUDED
    Inclosed; confined. Included stamens , such as are shorter than the floral envelopes, or are concealed within them.
  • SMALLPOX
    A contagious, constitutional, febrile disease characterized by a peculiar eruption; variola. The cutaneous eruption is at first a collection of papules which become vesicles (first flat, subsequently umbilicated) and then pustules, and finally thick
  • PEPPERMINT
    An aromatic and pungent plant of the genus Mentha (M. piperita), much used in medicine and confectionery. 2. A volatile oil distilled from the fresh herb; also, a well-known essence or spirit obtained from it. 3. A lozenge of sugar flavored
  • SMALL
    sm$l; akin to D. smal narrow, OS. & OHG. smal small, G. schmal narrow, Dan. & Sw. smal, Goth. smals small, Icel. smali smal cattle, sheep, or goats; cf. Gr. 1. Having little size, compared with other things of the same kind; little in quantity
  • SPEARMINT
    A species of mint growing in moist soil. It vields an aromatic oil. See Mint, and Mentha.
  • DENSENESS
    The quality of being dense; density.
  • DISTRIBUTION
    A resolving a whole into its parts. (more info) 1. The act of distributing or dispensing; the act of dividing or apportioning among several or many; apportionment; as, the distribution of an estate among heirs or children. The phenomena
  • WIDELY
    1. In a wide manner; to a wide degree or extent; far; extensively; as, the gospel was widely disseminated by the apostles. 2. Very much; to a great degree or extent; as, to differ widely in opinion.
  • DISTRIBUTIVE
    Assigning the species of a general term. (more info) 1. Tending to distribute; serving to divide and assign in portions; dealing to each his proper share. "Distributive justice." Swift.
  • DISTRIBUTARY
    Tending to distribute or be distributed; that distributes; distributive.
  • DISTRIBUTER
    One who, or that which, distributes or deals out anything; a dispenser. Addison.
  • SMALLAGE
    A biennial umbelliferous plant native of the seacoats of Europe and Asia. When deprived of its acrid and even poisonous properties by cultivation, it becomes celery.
  • SMALLY
    In a small quantity or degree; with minuteness. Ascham.
  • EXTRAAXILLAR; EXTRAAXILLARY
    Growing outside of the axils; as, an extra-axillary bud.
  • TEMPOROMAXILLARY
    Of or pertaining to both the temple or the temporal bone and the maxilla.
  • SUPRA-AXILLARY
    Growing above the axil; inserted above the axil, as a peduncle. See Suprafoliaceous.
  • DISMALLY
    In a dismal manner; gloomily; sorrowfully; uncomfortably.
  • INTERAXILLARY
    Situated within or between the axils of leaves.
  • SUBAXILLARY
    Situated under the axilla, or armpit.
  • MISARRANGEMENT
    Wrong arrangement.
  • SUBGENUS
    A subdivision of a genus, comprising one or more species which differ from other species of the genus in some important character or characters; as, the azaleas now constitute a subgenus of Rhododendron.
  • SEPTOMAXILLARY
    Of or pertaining to the nasal septum and the maxilla; situated in the region of these parts. -- n.
  • CONDENSER
    An apparatus for receiving and condensing the volatile products of distillation to a liquid or solid form, by cooling. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, condenses. 2. An instrument for condensing air or other elastic fluids, consisting
  • SUPRAMAXILLARY
    Situated over the lower jaw; as, the supramaxillary nerve. Of or pertaining to the upper jaw.
  • SUPERMAXILLARY
    Supermaxillary.

 

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