Word Meanings - TETTERWORT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A plant used as a remedy for tetter, -- in England the calendine, in America the bloodroot.

Related words: (words related to TETTERWORT)

• TETTEROUS
  Having the character of, or pertaining to, tetter.
• TETTERWORT
  A plant used as a remedy for tetter, -- in England the calendine, in America the bloodroot.
• BLOODROOT
  A plant , with a red root and red sap, and bearing a pretty, white flower in early spring; -- called also puccoon, redroot, bloodwort, tetterwort, turmeric, and Indian paint. It has acrid emetic properties, and the rootstock is used as a stimulant
• AMERICANIZATION
  The process of Americanizing.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• TETTER
  A vesicular disease of the skin; herpes. See Herpes. Honeycomb tetter , favus. -- Moist tetter , eczema. -- Scaly tetter , psoriasis. Tetter berry , the white bryony. (more info) zittermal, OHG. zittaroch, Skr. dadru, dadruka, a sort of skin
• 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.
• 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,
• TETTER-TOTTER
  A certain game of children; seesaw; -- called also titter- totter, and titter-cum-totter.
• AMERICANIZE
  To render American; to assimilate to the Americans in customs, ideas, etc.; to stamp with American characteristics.
• 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.
• 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.
• DEPLANT
  To take up ; to transplant.