Word Meanings - POLYGONUM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A genus of plants embracing a large number of species, including bistort, knotweed, smartweed, etc.

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• KNOTWEED
  See KNOT
• NUMBERFUL
  Numerous.
• SMARTWEED
  An acrid plant of the genus Polygonum , which produces smarting if applied where the skin is tender.
• SPECIES
  A group of individuals agreeing in common attributes, and designated by a common name; a conception subordinated to another conception, called a genus, or generic conception, from which it differs in containing or comprehending more attributes,
• INCLUDED
  Inclosed; confined. Included stamens , such as are shorter than the floral envelopes, or are concealed within them.
• LARGE-ACRED
  Possessing much land.
• EMBRACEOR
  One guilty of embracery.
• EMBRACERY
  An attempt to influence a court, jury, etc., corruptly, by promises, entreaties, money, entertainments, threats, or other improper inducements.
• EMBRACIVE
  Disposed to embrace; fond of caressing. Thackeray.
• EMBRACE
  To fasten on, as armor. Spenser.
• NUMBERLESS
  Innumerable; countless.
• LARGE-HANDED
  Having large hands, Fig.: Taking, or giving, in large quantities; rapacious or bountiful.
• LARGE-HEARTED
  Having a large or generous heart or disposition; noble; liberal. -- Large"-heart`ed*ness, n.
• BISTORT
  An herbaceous plant of the genus Polygonum, section Bistorta; snakeweed; adderwort. Its root is used in medicine as an astringent.
• GENUS
  A class of objects divided into several subordinate species; a class more extensive than a species; a precisely defined and exactly divided class; one of the five predicable conceptions, or sorts of terms.
• NUMBER
  The distinction of objects, as one, or more than one (in some languages, as one, or two, or more than two), expressed by a difference in the form of a word; thus, the singular number and the plural number are the names of the forms of
• NUMBERS
  of Number. The fourth book of the Pentateuch, containing the census of the Hebrews.
• LARGE
  Crossing the line of a ship's course in a favorable direction; -- said of the wind when it is abeam, or between the beam and the quarter. At large. Without restraint or confinement; as, to go at large; to be left at large. Diffusely; fully;
• LARGET
  A sport piece of bar iron for rolling into a sheet; a small billet.
• NUMBERER
  One who numbers.
• ENLARGEMENT
  1. The act of increasing in size or bulk, real or apparent; the state of being increased; augmentation; further extension; expansion. 2. Expansion or extension, as of the powers of the mind; ennoblement, as of the feelings and character; as, an
• 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.
• FOOL-LARGESSE
  Foolish expenditure; waste. Chaucer.
• OUTNUMBER
  To exceed in number.
• ANTENUMBER
  A number that precedes another. Bacon.
• MISNUMBER
  To number wrongly.
• SUBSPECIES
  A group somewhat lessdistinct than speciesusually are, but based on characters more important than those which characterize ordinary varieties; often, a geographical variety or race.