Word Meanings - WATERWORT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Any plant of the natural order Elatineæ, consisting of two genera , mostly small annual herbs growing in the edges of ponds. Some have a peppery or acrid taste.

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• GROWLER
  The large-mouthed black bass. 3. A four-wheeled cab. (more info) 1. One who growls.
• GROWL
  To utter a deep guttural sound, sa an angry dog; to give forth an angry, grumbling sound. Gay.
• ANNUALIST
  One who writes for, or who edits, an annual.
• NATURALIST
  1. One versed in natural science; a student of natural history, esp. of the natural history of animals. 2. One who holds or maintains the doctrine of naturalism in religion. H. Bushnell.
• ACRIDLY
  In an acid manner.
• NATURAL STEEL
  Steel made by the direct refining of cast iron in a finery, or, as wootz, by a direct process from the ore.
• CONSISTENTLY
  In a consistent manner.
• GENERABILITY
  Capability of being generated. Johnstone.
• GENERALIZED
  Comprising structural characters which are separated in more specialized forms; synthetic; as, a generalized type.
• GENERALIZABLE
  Capable of being generalized, or reduced to a general form of statement, or brought under a general rule. Extreme cases are . . . not generalizable. Coleridge
• PLANTIGRADA
  A subdivision of Carnivora having plantigrade feet. It includes the bears, raccoons, and allied species.
• SMALLISH
  Somewhat small. G. W. Cable.
• GENERA
  See GENUS
• PLANTULE
  The embryo which has begun its development in the act of germination.
• CONSIST
  1. To stand firm; to be in a fixed or permanent state, as a body composed of parts in union or connection; to hold together; to be; to exist; to subsist; to be supported and maintained. He is before all things, and by him all things consist. Col.
• 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.
• ACRIDITY; ACRIDNESS
  The quality of being acrid or pungent; irritant bitterness; acrimony; as, the acridity of a plant, of a speech.
• GENERANT
  Generative; producing; esp. ,
• CONSISTORIAN
  Pertaining to a Presbyterian consistory; -- a contemptuous term of 17th century controversy. You fall next on the consistorian schismatics; for so you call Presbyterians. Milton.
• ANNUAL
  1. Of or pertaining to a year; returning every year; coming or happening once in the year; yearly. The annual overflowing of the river . Ray. 2. Performed or accomplished in a year; reckoned by the year; as, the annual motion of the
• 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
• MAJOR GENERAL
  . An officer of the army holding a rank next above that of brigadier general and next below that of lieutenant general, and who usually commands a division or a corps.
• SUPERNATURALNESS
  The quality or state of being supernatural.
• UNREGENERACY
  The quality or state of being unregenerate. Glanvill.
• SEMIANNUALLY
  Every half year.
• UPGROW
  To grow up. Milton.
• PRETERNATURALITY
  Preternaturalness. Dr. John Smith.
• IMBORDER
  To furnish or inclose with a border; to form a border of. Milton.
• RETROGENERATIVE
  Begetting young by retrocopulation.
• DISMALLY
  In a dismal manner; gloomily; sorrowfully; uncomfortably.