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A leguminous plant of Southern Europe, having curved pods.

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  • HAVENED
    Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats.
  • HAVENER
    A harbor master.
  • SOUTHERNLINESS
    Southerliness.
  • PLANTIGRADA
    A subdivision of Carnivora having plantigrade feet. It includes the bears, raccoons, and allied species.
  • HAVELOCK
    A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke.
  • CURVIROSTRES
    A group of passerine birds, including the creepers and nuthatches.
  • PLANTULE
    The embryo which has begun its development in the act of germination.
  • PLANTIGRADE
    Walking on the sole of the foot; pertaining to the plantigrades. Having the foot so formed that the heel touches the ground when the leg is upright.
  • CURVICAUDATE
    Having a curved or crooked tail.
  • CURVE
    Bent without angles; crooked; curved; as, a curve line; a curve surface.
  • 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.
  • CURVISERIAL
    Distributed in a curved line, as leaves along a stem.
  • CURVATURE
    The amount of degree of bending of a mathematical curve, or the tendency at any point to depart from a tangent drawn to the curve at that point. Aberrancy of curvature , the deviation of a curve from a curcular form. -Absolute curvature. See under
  • PLANTOCRACY
    Government by planters; planters, collectively.
  • CURVATE; CURVATED
    Bent in a regular form; curved.
  • HAVENAGE
    Harbor dues; port dues.
  • PLANTERSHIP
    The occupation or position of a planter, or the management of a plantation, as in the United States or the West Indies.
  • PLANTLESS
    Without plants; barren of vegetation.
  • 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.
  • DISPLANTATION
    The act of displanting; removal; displacement. Sir W. Raleigh.
  • SUPPLANT
    heels, to throw down; sub under + planta the sole of the foot, also, 1. To trip up. "Supplanted, down he fell." Milton. 2. To remove or displace by stratagem; to displace and take the place of; to supersede; as, a rival supplants another in the
  • PLEUROPERITONEUM
    The pleural and peritoneal membranes, or the membrane lining the body cavity and covering the surface of the inclosed viscera; the peritoneum; -- used especially in the case of those animals in which the body cavity is not divided. Note: Peritoneum
  • TRICURVATE
    Curved in three directions; as, a tricurvate spicule (see Illust. of Spicule).
  • LAMINIPLANTAR
    Having the tarsus covered behind with a horny sheath continuous on both sides, as in most singing birds, except the larks.
  • MISBEHAVE
    To behave ill; to conduct one's self improperly; -- often used with a reciprocal pronoun.
  • RECURVE
    To curve in an opposite or unusual direction; to bend back or down.
  • INSHAVE
    A plane for shaving or dressing the concave or inside faces of barrel staves.
  • IMPLANTATION
    The act or process of implantating.

 

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