Word Meanings - STONECROP - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Any low succulent plant of the genus Sedum, esp. Sedum acre, which is common on bare rocks in Europe, and is spreading in parts of America. See Orpine. Virginian, or Ditch, stonecrop, an American plant . (more info) 1. A sort of tree. Mortimer.

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• SPREADINGLY
  , adv. Increasingly. The best times were spreadingly infected. Milton.
• COMMONER
  1. One of the common people; one having no rank of nobility. All below them even their children, were commoners, and in the eye law equal to each other. Hallam. 2. A member of the House of Commons. 3. One who has a joint right in common ground.
• AMERICANIZATION
  The process of Americanizing.
• SUCCULENT
  Full of juice; juicy. Succulent plants , plants which have soft and juicy leaves or stems, as the houseleek, the live forever, and the species of Mesembryanthemum.
• 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.
• 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.
• COMMONISH
  Somewhat common; commonplace; vulgar.
• COMMONLY
  1. Usually; generally; ordinarily; frequently; for the most part; as, confirmed habits commonly continue trough life. 2. In common; familiary. Spenser.
• DITCHER
  One who digs ditches.
• AMERICAN
  1. Of or pertaining to America; as, the American continent: American Indians. 2. Of or pertaining to the United States. "A young officer of the American navy." Lyell. American ivy. See Virginia creeper. -- American Party , a party, about 1854,
• ORPINE
  A low plant with fleshy leaves , having clusters of purple flowers. It is found on dry, sandy places, and on old walls, in England, and has become naturalized in America. Called also stonecrop, and live-forever. (more info) orpine; -- so called
• AMERICANISM
  1. Attachment to the United States. 2. A custom peculiar to the United States or to America; an American characteristic or idea. 3. A word or phrase peculiar to the United States.
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• COMMONWEALTH
  Specifically, the form of government established on the death of Charles I., in 1649, which existed under Oliver Cromwell and his son Richard, ending with the abdication of the latter in 1659. Syn. -- State; realm; republic. (more info) 1. A state;
• PLANTOCRACY
  Government by planters; planters, collectively.
• AMERICAN PLAN
  In hotels, aplan upon which guests pay for both room and board by the day, week, or other convenient period; -- contrasted with European plan.
• SPREAD-EAGLED
  1. To place in a spread-eagle position, especially as a means of punishment. 2. being in a position with the arms and legs extended fully.
• 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.
• 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
• UNCOMMON
  Not common; unusual; infrequent; rare; hence, remarkable; strange; as, an uncommon season; an uncommon degree of cold or heat; uncommon courage. Syn. -- Rare; scarce; infrequent; unwonted. -- Un*com"mon*ly, adv. -- Un*com"mon*ness, n.
• FELLOW-COMMONER
  A student at Cambridge University, England, who commons, or dines, at the Fellow's table.
• INTERCOMMON
  To graze cattle promiscuously in the commons of each other, as the inhabitants of adjoining townships, manors, etc. (more info) 1. To share with others; to participate; especially, to eat at the same table. Bacon.
• 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
• BEDSPREAD
  A bedquilt; a counterpane; a coverlet.
• LAMINIPLANTAR
  Having the tarsus covered behind with a horny sheath continuous on both sides, as in most singing birds, except the larks.
• UNDERDITCH
  To dig an underground ditches in, so as to drain the surface; to underdrain; as, to underditch a field or a farm.
• DISPREAD
  To spread abroad, or different ways; to spread apart; to open; as, the sun dispreads his beams. Spenser.
• 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.
• OUTSPREAD
  To spread out; to expand; -- usually as a past part. or adj.