Word Meanings - ALGAROVILLA - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The agglutinated seeds and husks of the legumes of a South American tree . It is valuable for tanning leather, and as a dye.

Related words: (words related to ALGAROVILLA)

• SOUTHWEST
  Pertaining to, or in the direction of, the southwest; proceeding toward the southwest; coming from the southwest; as, a southwest wind.
• SOUTHSAY
  See SOOTHSAY
• SOUTHWESTERLY
  To ward or from the southwest; as, a southwesterly course; a southwesterly wind.
• SOUTHPAW
  A pitcher who pitches with the left hand.
• VALUABLENESS
  The quality of being valuable.
• SOUTHERNLINESS
  Southerliness.
• SOUTHREN
  Southern. "I am a Southren man." Chaucer.
• AMERICANIZATION
  The process of Americanizing.
• TANNATE
  A salt of tannic acid.
• LEATHERWOOD
  A small branching shrub , with a white, soft wood, and a tough, leathery bark, common in damp woods in the Northern United States; -- called also moosewood, and wicopy. Gray.
• TANNIN
  See TANNIC
• 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.
• SOUTHSAYER
  See SOOTHSAYER
• SOUTH; SOUTHERLY
  the old squaw; -- so called in imitation of its cry. Called also southerly, and southerland. See under Old.
• LEATHERBACK
  A large sea turtle , having no bony shell on its back. It is common in the warm and temperate parts of the Atlantic, and sometimes weighs over a thousand pounds; -- called also leather turtle, leathery turtle, leather-backed tortoise, etc.
• LEATHERY
  Resembling leather in appearance or consistence; tough. "A leathery skin." Grew.
• 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.
• SOUTHING
  Distance of any heavenly body south of the equator; south declination; south latitude. (more info) 1. Tendency or progress southward; as, the southing of the sun. Emerson. 2. The time at which the moon, or other heavenly body, passes the meridian
• SOUTHERN
  A Southerner.
• STANNYEL; STANYEL
  See STANNEL
• STANNINE; STANNITE
  A mineral of a steel
• BRITANNIC
  Of or pertaining to Great Britain; British; as, her Britannic Majesty.
• STANNARY
  Of or pertaining to tin mines, or tin works. The stannary courts of Devonshire and Cornwall, for the administration of justice among the tinners therein, are also courts of record. Blackstone.
• STANNATE
  A salt of stannic acid.
• STANNOSO-
  A combining form denoting relation to, or connection with, certain stannnous compounds.
• STANNOUS
  Pertaining to, or containing, tin; specifically, designating those compounds in which the element has a lower valence as contrasted with stannic compounds. Stannous chloride , a white crystalline substance, SnCl2. 2, obtained by dissolving tin
• BRITANNIA
  A white-metal alloy of tin, antimony, bismuth, copper, etc. It somewhat resembles silver, and isused for table ware. Called also Britannia metal.
• METASTANNATE
  A salt of metastannic acid.