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Word Meanings - PAPAVERACEOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a natural order of plants of which the poppy, the celandine, and the bloodroot are well-known examples.

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  • NATURALIST
    1. One versed in natural science; a student of natural history, esp. of the natural history of animals. 2. One who holds or maintains the doctrine of naturalism in religion. H. Bushnell.
  • NATURAL STEEL
    Steel made by the direct refining of cast iron in a finery, or, as wootz, by a direct process from the ore.
  • BLOODROOT
    A plant , with a red root and red sap, and bearing a pretty, white flower in early spring; -- called also puccoon, redroot, bloodwort, tetterwort, turmeric, and Indian paint. It has acrid emetic properties, and the rootstock is used as a stimulant
  • WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
    Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
  • NATURAL
    Belonging to, to be taken in, or referred to, some system, in which the base is 1; -- said or certain functions or numbers; as, natural numbers, those commencing at 1; natural sines, cosines, etc., those taken in arcs whose radii are 1. (more info)
  • POPPY; POPPYHEAD
    A raised ornament frequently having the form of a final. It is generally used on the tops of the upright ends or elbows which terminate seats, etc., in Gothic churches.
  • ORDERLY
    1. Conformed to order; in order; regular; as, an orderly course or plan. Milton. 2. Observant of order, authority, or rule; hence, obedient; quiet; peaceable; not unruly; as, orderly children; an orderly community. 3. Performed in good
  • WHICH
    the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
  • NATURALNESS
    The state or quality of being natural; conformity to nature.
  • EXAMPLESS
    Exampleless. B. Jonson.
  • RESEMBLINGLY
    So as to resemble; with resemblance or likeness.
  • PERTAIN
    stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
  • KNOWN
    of Know.
  • RESEMBLANT
    Having or exhibiting resemblance; resembling. Gower.
  • NATURALISM
    The doctrine of those who deny a supernatural agency in the miracles and revelations recorded in the Bible, and in spiritual influences; also, any system of philosophy which refers the phenomena of nature to a blind force or forces acting
  • NATURALLY
    In a natural manner or way; according to the usual course of things; spontaneously.
  • ORDERLINESS
    The state or quality of being orderly.
  • ORDER
    1. Regular arrangement; any methodical or established succession or harmonious relation; method; system; as: Of material things, like the books in a library. Of intellectual notions or ideas, like the topics of a discource. Of periods of time or
  • ORDERING
    Disposition; distribution; management. South.
  • RESEMBLE
    sembler to seem, resemble, fr. L. similare, simulare, to imitate, fr. 1. To be like or similar to; to bear the similitude of, either in appearance or qualities; as, these brothers resemble each other. We will resemble you in that. Shak.
  • SUPERNATURALNESS
    The quality or state of being supernatural.
  • PRETERNATURALITY
    Preternaturalness. Dr. John Smith.
  • IMBORDER
    To furnish or inclose with a border; to form a border of. Milton.
  • MISORDER
    To order ill; to manage erroneously; to conduct badly. Shak.
  • ACCORDER
    One who accords, assents, or concedes.
  • NATURALIZE
    1. To make natural; as, custom naturalizes labor or study. 2. To confer the rights and privileges of a native subject or citizen on; to make as if native; to adopt, as a foreigner into a nation or state, and place in the condition of
  • SUPERNATURAL
    Being beyond, or exceeding, the power or laws of nature; miraculous. Syn. -- Preternatural. -- Supernatural, Preternatural. Preternatural signifies beside nature, and supernatural, above or beyond nature. What is very greatly aside from the ordinary
  • SUPERNATURALISM
    The doctrine of a divine and supernatural agency in the production of the miracles and revelations recorded in the Bible, and in the grace which renews and sanctifies men, -- in opposition to the doctrine which denies the agency of any other than
  • PRETERNATURALISM
    The state of being preternatural; a preternatural condition.
  • CONNATURALITY
    Participation of the same nature; natural union or connection. A congruity and connaturality between them. Sir M. Hale.
  • SUPRANATURALISM
    The state of being supernatural; belief in supernatural agency or revelation; supernaturalism.
  • CONNATURAL
    1. Connected by nature; united in nature; inborn; inherent; natural. These affections are connatural to us. L'Estrange. 2. Partaking of the same nature. And mix with our connatural dust. Milton.

 

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