Word Meanings - RAGWORT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A name given to several species of the composite genus Senecio. Note: Senecio aureus is the golden ragwort of the United States: S. elegans is the purple ragwort of South Africa.

Related words: (words related to RAGWORT)

• SOUTHWEST
  Pertaining to, or in the direction of, the southwest; proceeding toward the southwest; coming from the southwest; as, a southwest wind.
• SOUTHSAY
  See SOOTHSAY
• STATESMANLIKE
  Having the manner or wisdom of statesmen; becoming a statesman.
• SOUTHWESTERLY
  To ward or from the southwest; as, a southwesterly course; a southwesterly wind.
• UNITERABLE
  Not iterable; incapable of being repeated. "To play away an uniterable life." Sir T. Browne.
• SOUTHPAW
  A pitcher who pitches with the left hand.
• SOUTHERNLINESS
  Southerliness.
• AFRICAN
  A native of Africa; also one ethnologically belonging to an African race.
• SOUTHREN
  Southern. "I am a Southren man." Chaucer.
• AFRICANISM
  A word, phrase, idiom, or custom peculiar to Africa or Africans. "The knotty Africanisms . . . of the fathers." Milton.
• GOLDEN
  1. Made of gold; consisting of gold. 2. Having the color of gold; as, the golden grain. 3. Very precious; highly valuable; excellent; eminently auspicious; as, golden opinions. Golden age. The fabulous age of primeval simplicity and purity of
• UNITIVE
  Having the power of uniting; causing, or tending to produce, union. Jer. Taylor.
• UNITARIANISM
  The doctrines of Unitarians.
• 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,
• SOUTHSAYER
  See SOOTHSAYER
• PURPLE
  1. Exhibiting or possessing the color called purple, much esteemed for its richness and beauty; of a deep red, or red and blue color; as, a purple robe. 2. Imperial; regal; -- so called from the color having been an emblem of imperial authority.
• UNITARIANIZE
  To change or turn to Unitarian views.
• SOUTH; SOUTHERLY
  the old squaw; -- so called in imitation of its cry. Called also southerly, and southerland. See under Old.
• SOUTHING
  Distance of any heavenly body south of the equator; south declination; south latitude. (more info) 1. Tendency or progress southward; as, the southing of the sun. Emerson. 2. The time at which the moon, or other heavenly body, passes the meridian
• AFRICANIZE
  To place under the domination of Africans or negroes. Bartlett.
• EMPURPLE
  To tinge or dye of a purple color; to color with purple; to impurple. "The deep empurpled ran." Philips.
• 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.
• TRIBUNICIAN; TRIBUNITIAL; TRIBUNITIAN
  Of or pertaining to tribunes; befitting a tribune; as, tribunitial power or authority. Dryden. A kind of tribunician veto, forbidding that which is recognized to be wrong. Hare.
• JEJUNITY
  The quality of being jejune; jejuneness.
• TRIUNITY
  The quality or state of being triune; trinity. Dr. H. More.
• MUNITION
  fortification, fr. munire to fortify, defend with a wall; cf. moenia walls, murus a wall, and Skr. mi to fix, make firm. Cf. 1. Fortification; stronghold. His place of defense shall be the munitions of rocks. Is. xxxiii. 16. 2. Whatever materials