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A medicinal plant, the thoroughwort . Its properties are diaphoretic and tonic.

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• THOROUGHWORT
  See BONESET
• PLANTIGRADA
  A subdivision of Carnivora having plantigrade feet. It includes the bears, raccoons, and allied species.
• DIAPHORETIC
  A medicine or agent which promotes perspiration. Note: Diaphoretics differ from sudorifics; the former only increase the insensible perspiration, the latter excite the sensible discharge called sweat. Parr.
• PLANTULE
  The embryo which has begun its development in the act of germination.
• 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.
• TONICAL
  Tonic. Sir T. Browne.
• 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.
• TONIC
  Increasing strength, or the tone of the animal system; obviating the effects of debility, and restoring heatly functions. Tononic spasm. See the Note under Spasm. (more info) 1. Of or relating to tones or sounds; specifically , applied to, or
• 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.
• DIAPHORETIC; DIAPHORETICAL
  Having the power to increase perspiration.
• 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,
• PLANTICLE
  A young plant, or plant in embryo. E. Darwin.
• MEDICINAL
  1. Having curative or palliative properties; used for the cure or alleviation of bodily disorders; as, medicinal tinctures, plants, or springs. Drop tears as fast as the Arabian trees Their medicinal gum. Shak. 2. Of or pertaining to medicine;
• MEDICINALLY
  In a medicinal manner.
• PLANTAL
  Belonging to plants; as, plantal life. Dr. H. More.
• PLANTLET
  A little plant.
• PLANT-EATING
  Eating, or subsisting on, plants; as, a plant-eating beetle.
• 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
• CROTONIC
  Of or pertaining to, or derived from, a plant of the genus Croton, or from croton oil. Crotonic acid , a white crystalline organic acid, C3H5.CO2H, of the ethylene, or acrylic acid series. It was so named because formerly supposed to
• PLATONICALLY
  In a Platonic manner.
• LAMINIPLANTAR
  Having the tarsus covered behind with a horny sheath continuous on both sides, as in most singing birds, except the larks.
• IMPLANTATION
  The act or process of implantating.
• PLATONIC; PLATONICAL
  1. Of or pertaining to Plato, or his philosophy, school, or opinions. 2. Pure, passionless; nonsexual; philosophical. Platonic bodies, the five regular geometrical solids; namely, the tetrahedron, hexahedron or cube, octahedron, dodecahedron, and
• EUPITTONIC
  Pertaining to, or derived from, eupittone.
• 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.
• ARCHITECTONIC; ARCHITECTONICAL
  1. Pertaining to a master builder, or to architecture; evincing skill in designing or construction; constructive. "Architectonic wisdom." Boyle. These architectonic functions which we had hitherto thought belonged. J. C. Shairp. 2. Relating to
• ARCHITECTONIC
  1. The science of architecture. 2. The act of arranging knowledge into a system.
• ISOTONIC
  Having or indicating, equal tones, or tension. Isotonic system , a system consisting of intervals, in which each concord is alike tempered, and in which there are twelve equal semitones.