Word Meanings - TRADESCANTIA - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A genus including spiderwort and Wandering Jew.

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• SPIDERWORT
  An American endogenous plant , with long linear leaves and ephemeral blue flowers. The name is sometimes extended to other species of the same genus.
• WANDERMENT
  The act of wandering, or roaming. Bp. Hall.
• WANDEROO
  A large monkey native of Malabar. It is black, or nearly so, but has a long white or gray beard encircling the face. Called also maha, silenus, neelbhunder, lion-tailed baboon, and great wanderoo. Note: The name is sometimes applied also to other
• WANDERINGLY
  In a wandering manner.
• INCLUDED
  Inclosed; confined. Included stamens , such as are shorter than the floral envelopes, or are concealed within them.
• WANDERER
  One who wanders; a rambler; one who roves; hence, one who deviates from duty.
• GENUS
  A class of objects divided into several subordinate species; a class more extensive than a species; a precisely defined and exactly divided class; one of the five predicable conceptions, or sorts of terms.
• WANDERING
  a. & n. from Wander, v. Wandering albatross , the great white albatross. See Illust. of Albatross. -- Wandering cell , an animal cell which possesses the power of spontaneous movement, as one of the white corpuscles of the blood. -- Wandering
• WANDER
  1. To ramble here and there without any certain course or with no definite object in view; to range about; to stroll; to rove; as, to wander over the fields. They wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins. Heb. xi. 37. He wandereth abroad for
• INCLUDE
  1. To confine within; to hold; to contain; to shut up; to inclose; as, the shell of a nut includes the kernel; a pearl is included in a shell. 2. To comprehend or comprise, as a genus the species, the whole a part, an argument or reason
• INCLUDIBLE
  Capable of being included.
• FORWANDER
  To wander away; to go astray; to wander far and to weariness.
• 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.
• MISWANDER
  To wander in a wrong path; to stray; to go astray. Chaucer.