Word Meanings - STALLON - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A slip from a plant; a scion; a cutting. Holished.
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- CUTTHROAT
One who cuts throats; a murderer; an assassin. - PLANTIGRADA
A subdivision of Carnivora having plantigrade feet. It includes the bears, raccoons, and allied species. - PLANTULE
The embryo which has begun its development in the act of germination. - SCION
A shoot or sprout of a plant; a sucker. 2. Hence, a descendant; an heir; as, a scion of a royal stock. - 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. - CUTTY
Short; as, a cutty knife; a cutty sark. - PLANTOCRACY
Government by planters; planters, collectively. - 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. - CUTTING
1. The act or process of making an incision, or of severing, felling, shaping, etc. 2. Something cut, cut off, or cut out, as a twig or - CUTTYSTOOL
1. A low stool 2. A seat in old Scottish churches, where offenders were made to sit, for public rebuke by the minister. - PLANT-CANE
A stalk or shoot of sugar cane of the first growth from the cutting. The growth of the second and following years is of inferior quality, and is called rattoon. - PLANTED
Fixed in place, as a projecting member wrought on a separate piece of stuff; as, a planted molding. - PLANTAIN
A treelike perennial herb of tropical regions, bearing immense leaves and large clusters of the fruits called plantains. See Musa. 2. The fruit of this plant. It is long and somewhat cylindrical, slightly curved, and, when ripe, soft, fleshy, - PLANTICLE
A young plant, or plant in embryo. E. Darwin. - PLANTAL
Belonging to plants; as, plantal life. Dr. H. More. - CUTTLE BONE
The shell or bone of cuttlefishes, used for various purposes, as for making polishing powder, etc. - CUTTINGLY
In a cutting manner. - PLANTLET
A little plant. - PLANT-EATING
Eating, or subsisting on, plants; as, a plant-eating beetle. - 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 - STRAW-CUTTER
An instrument to cut straw for fodder. - LAMINIPLANTAR
Having the tarsus covered behind with a horny sheath continuous on both sides, as in most singing birds, except the larks. - SWARD-CUTTER
A plow for turning up grass land. A lawn mower. - SCUTTLE
both fr. L. scutella, dim. of scutra, scuta, a dish or platter; cf. 1. A broad, shallow basket. 2. A wide-mouthed vessel for holding coal: a coal hod. - IMPLANTATION
The act or process of implantating. - EGGPLANT
A plant , of East Indian origin, allied to the tomato, and bearing a large, smooth, edible fruit, shaped somewhat like an egg; mad-apple. - CHALKCUTTER
A man who digs chalk. - DEPLANT
To take up ; to transplant. - FLAX-PLANT
A plant in new Zealand , allied to the lilies and aloes. The leaves are two inches wide and several feet long, and furnish a fiber which is used for making ropes, mats, and coarse cloth.