Word Meanings - STOOL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A plant from which layers are propagated by bending its branches into the soil. P. Henderson.

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• 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.
• BENDER
  1. One who, or that which, bends. 2. An instrument used for bending. 3. A drunken spree. Bartlett. 4. A sixpence.
• 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.
• 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.
• PROPAGATIVE
  Producing by propagation, or by a process of growth.
• PROPAGATION
  1. The act of propagating; continuance or multiplication of the kind by generation or successive production; as, the propagation of animals or plants. There is not in nature any spontaneous generation, but all come by propagation. Ray.
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• BENDING
  The marking of the clothes with stripes or horizontal bands. Chaucer.
• 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.
• BENDY
  Divided into an even number of bends; -- said of a shield or its charge. Cussans.
• BENDABLE
  Capable of being bent.
• PLANTED
  Fixed in place, as a projecting member wrought on a separate piece of stuff; as, a planted molding.
• PROPAGATE
  akin to propages, propago, a layer of a plant, slip, shoot. See Pro-, 1. To cause to continue or multiply by generation, or successive production; -- applied to animals and plants; as, to propagate a breed of horses or sheep; to propagate a species
• 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,
• BENDLET
  A narrow bend, esp. one half the width of the bend.
• PLANTICLE
  A young plant, or plant in embryo. E. Darwin.
• 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
• LAMINIPLANTAR
  Having the tarsus covered behind with a horny sheath continuous on both sides, as in most singing birds, except the larks.
• OVERBEND
  To bend to excess.
• 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.
• HELLBENDER
  A large North American aquatic salamander (Protonopsis horrida or Menopoma Alleghaniensis). It is very voracious and very tenacious of life. Also called alligator, and water dog.
• DEPLANT
  To take up ; to transplant.
• PREBEND
  praebenda, from L. praebere to hold forth, afford, contr. fr. praehibere; prae before + habere to have, hold. See Habit, and cf. 1. A payment or stipend; esp., the stipend or maintenance granted to a prebendary out of the estate of a cathedral