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Word Meanings - PISTILLACEOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Growing on, or having nature of, the pistil; of or pertaining to a pistil. Barton.

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  • HAVENED
    Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats.
  • GROWLER
    The large-mouthed black bass. 3. A four-wheeled cab. (more info) 1. One who growls.
  • GROWL
    To utter a deep guttural sound, sa an angry dog; to give forth an angry, grumbling sound. Gay.
  • HAVENER
    A harbor master.
  • PISTILLIFEROUS
    Pistillate.
  • HAVELOCK
    A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke.
  • PISTILLATION
    The act of pounding or breaking in a mortar; pestillation. Sir T. Browne.
  • HAVE
    haven, habben, AS. habben ; akin to OS. hebbian, D. hebben, OFries, hebba, OHG. hab, G. haben, Icel. hafa, Sw. hafva, Dan. have, Goth. haban, and prob. to L. habere, whence F. 1. To hold in possession or control; to own; as, he has a farm. 2.
  • GROWAN
    A decomposed granite, forming a mass of gravel, as in tin lodes in Cornwall.
  • GROWER
    One who grows or produces; as, a grower of corn; also, that which grows or increases; as, a vine may be a rank or a slow grower.
  • HAVENAGE
    Harbor dues; port dues.
  • GROW
    1. To increase in size by a natural and organic process; to increase in bulk by the gradual assimilation of new matter into the living organism; -- said of animals and vegetables and their organs. 2. To increase in any way; to become larger and
  • HAVEN
    habe, Dan. havn, Icel. höfn, Sw. hamn; akin to E. have, and hence orig., a holder; or to heave ; or akin to AS. hæf sea, 1. A bay, recess, or inlet of the sea, or the mouth of a river, which affords anchorage and shelter for shipping; a harbor;
  • HAVANA
    Of or pertaining to Havana, the capital of the island of Cuba; as, an Havana cigar; -- formerly sometimes written Havannah. -- n.
  • HAVERSIAN
    Pertaining to, or discovered by, Clopton Havers, an English physician of the seventeenth century. Haversian canals , the small canals through which the blood vessels ramify in bone.
  • PISTILLACEOUS
    Growing on, or having nature of, the pistil; of or pertaining to a pistil. Barton.
  • PISTILLIDIUM
    See ARCHEGONIUM
  • BARTON
    1. The demesne lands of a manor; also, the manor itself. Burton. 2. A farmyard. Southey.
  • 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
  • HAVING
    Possession; goods; estate. I 'll lend you something; my having is not much. Shak.
  • UPGROW
    To grow up. Milton.
  • UNNATURE
    To change the nature of; to invest with a different or contrary nature. A right heavenly nature, indeed, as if were unnaturing them, doth so bridle them . Sir P. Sidney.
  • FULL-GROWN
    Having reached the limits of growth; mature. "Full-grown wings." Lowell.
  • MISGROWTH
    Bad growth; an unnatural or abnormal growth.
  • MISBEHAVE
    To behave ill; to conduct one's self improperly; -- often used with a reciprocal pronoun.
  • DEMINATURED
    Having half the nature of another. Shak.
  • TIME SIGNATURE
    A sign at the beginning of a composition or movement, placed after the key signature, to indicate its time or meter. Also called rhythmical signature. It is in the form of a fraction, of which the denominator indicates the kind of note taken as
  • INSHAVE
    A plane for shaving or dressing the concave or inside faces of barrel staves.
  • EPISTILBITE
    A crystallized, transparent mineral of the Zeolite family. It is a hydrous silicate of alumina and lime.
  • INGROWTH
    A growth or development inward. J. LeConte.
  • ORNATURE
    Decoration; ornamentation. Holinshed.
  • OUTGROWTH
    That which grows out of, or proceeds from, anything; an excrescence; an offshoot; hence, a result or consequence.

 

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