Word Meanings - SWEETWEED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A name for two tropical American weeds (Capraria biflora, and Scoparia dulcis) of the Figwort family.

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• AMERICANIZATION
  The process of Americanizing.
• FAMILY
  A groupe of organisms, either animal or vegetable, related by certain points of resemblance in structure or development, more comprehensive than a genus, because it is usually based on fewer or less pronounced points of likeness. In zoölogy
• TROPICALLY
  In a tropical manner; figuratively; metaphorically.
• 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,
• 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.
• BIFLORATE; BIFLOROUS
  Bearing two flowers; two-flowered.
• 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.
• AMERICANIZE
  To render American; to assimilate to the Americans in customs, ideas, etc.; to stamp with American characteristics.
• FIGWORT
  A genus of herbaceous plants , mostly found in the north temperate zones. See Brownwort.
• AMERICAN PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION
  A secret organization in the United States, formed in Iowa in 1887, ostensibly for the protection of American institutions by keeping Roman Catholics out of public office. Abbrev. commonly to A.
• TROPICAL
  Rhetorically changed from its exact original sense; being of the nature of a trope; figurative; metaphorical. Jer. Taylor. The foundation of all parables is some analogy or similitude between the tropical or allusive part of the parable and the
• INTERTROPICAL
  Situated between or within the tropics. J. Morse.
• EXTRATROPICAL
  Beyond or outside of the tropics. Whewell.
• ANTI-AMERICAN
  Opposed to the Americans, their aims, or interests, or to the genius of American institutions. Marshall.
• INTRATROPICAL
  Within the tropics.
• SUBTROPICAL
  Nearly tropical.
• PAN-AMERICAN
  Of or pertaining to both North and South America.
• PAN-AMERICAN CONGRESS
  various American states; esp.: One held in 1889-90 in the United States, at which all the independent states except Santo Domingo were represented and of which the practical result was the establishment of the Bureau of American Republics for the
• SUBFAMILY
  One of the subdivisions, of more importance than genus, into which certain families are divided.
• PAN-AMERICANISM
  The principle or advocacy of a political alliance or union of all the states of America.
• ULTRATROPICAL
  Situated beyond, or outside of, the tropics; extratropical; also, having an excessively tropical temperature; warmer than the tropics.