Word Meanings - AMPLEXICAUL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Clasping or embracing a stem, as the base of some leaves. Gray.

Related words: (words related to AMPLEXICAUL)

• CLASPER
  1. One who, or that which, clasps, as a tendril. "The claspers of vines." Derham. One of a pair of organs used by the male for grasping the female among many of the Crustacea. One of a pair of male copulatory organs, developed on the anterior side
• CLASPERED
  Furnished with tendrils.
• EMBRACEOR
  One guilty of embracery.
• EMBRACERY
  An attempt to influence a court, jury, etc., corruptly, by promises, entreaties, money, entertainments, threats, or other improper inducements.
• EMBRACIVE
  Disposed to embrace; fond of caressing. Thackeray.
• EMBRACE
  To fasten on, as armor. Spenser.
• EMBRACER
  One who embraces.
• EMBRACEMENT
  1. A clasp in the arms; embrace. Dear though chaste embracements. Sir P. Sidney. 2. State of being contained; inclosure. In the embracement of the parts hardly reparable, as bones. Bacon. 3. Willing acceptance. A ready embracement of . . . his
• LEAVES
  pl. of Leaf.
• CLASP
  1. To shut or fasten together with, or as with, a clasp; to shut or fasten . 2. To inclose and hold in the hand or with the arms; to grasp; to embrace. 3. To surround and cling to; to entwine about. "Clasping ivy." Milton.
• RECLASP
  To clasp or unite again.
• PARKLEAVES
  A European species of Saint John's-wort; the tutsan. See Tutsan.
• ENCLASP
  To clasp. See Inclasp.
• STEM-CLASPING
  Embracing the stem with its base; amplexicaul; as a leaf or petiole.
• INCLASP
  To clasp within; to hold fast to; to embrace or encircle. The flattering ivy who did ever see Inclasp the huge trunk of an aged tree. F. Beaumont.
• REEMBRACE
  To embrace again.
• UNCLASP
  To loose the clasp of; to open, as something that is fastened, or as with, a clasp; as, to unclasp a book; to unclasp one's heart.
• VACHETTE CLASP
  A piece of strong steel wire with the ends curved and pointed, used on toe or quarter cracks to bind the edges together and prevent motion. It is clasped into two notches, one on each side of the crack, burned into the wall with a cautery iron.