Word Meanings - WATCHES - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The leaves of Sarace. See Trumpets.

Related words: (words related to WATCHES)

• SARACENIC; SARACENICAL
  Of or pertaining to the Saracens; as, Saracenic architecture. "Saracenic music." Sir W. Scott.
• TRUMPETS
  A plant with long, hollow leaves.
• SARACEN
  Anciently, an Arab; later, a Mussulman; in the Middle Ages, the common term among Christians in Europe for a Mohammedan hostile to the crusaders. Saracen's consound , a kind of ragewort (Senecio Saracenicus), anciently used to heal wounds. (more
• LEAVES
  pl. of Leaf.
• PARKLEAVES
  A European species of Saint John's-wort; the tutsan. See Tutsan.