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Word Meanings - WILLOW-WORT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Same as Willow-weed. Any plant of the order Salicaceæ, or the Willow family.

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  • WILLOWER
    A willow. See Willow, n., 2.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • WILLOW-WORT
    Same as Willow-weed. Any plant of the order Salicaceæ, or the Willow family.
  • PLANTOCRACY
    Government by planters; planters, collectively.
  • 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.
  • WILLOWISH
    Having the color of the willow; resembling the willow; willowy. Walton.
  • WILLOWED
    Abounding with willows; containing willows; covered or overgrown with willows. "Willowed meads." Collins.
  • ORDERLY
    1. Conformed to order; in order; regular; as, an orderly course or plan. Milton. 2. Observant of order, authority, or rule; hence, obedient; quiet; peaceable; not unruly; as, orderly children; an orderly community. 3. Performed in good
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • SALICACEOUS
    Belonging or relating to the willow.
  • 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,
  • WILLOWY
    1. Abounding with willows. Where willowy Camus lingers with delight. Gray. 2. Resembling a willow; pliant; flexible; pendent; drooping; graceful.
  • PLANTICLE
    A young plant, or plant in embryo. E. Darwin.
  • ORDERLINESS
    The state or quality of being orderly.
  • ORDER
    1. Regular arrangement; any methodical or established succession or harmonious relation; method; system; as: Of material things, like the books in a library. Of intellectual notions or ideas, like the topics of a discource. Of periods of time or
  • 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
  • IMBORDER
    To furnish or inclose with a border; to form a border of. Milton.
  • MISORDER
    To order ill; to manage erroneously; to conduct badly. Shak.
  • LAMINIPLANTAR
    Having the tarsus covered behind with a horny sheath continuous on both sides, as in most singing birds, except the larks.
  • ACCORDER
    One who accords, assents, or concedes.
  • 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.
  • WATER WILLOW
    An American aquatic plant with long willowlike leaves, and spikes of small purplish flowers.
  • DEPLANT
    To take up ; to transplant.

 

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