Word Meanings - CARDAMINE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A genus of cruciferous plants, containing the lady's-smock, cuckooflower, bitter cress, meadow cress, etc.

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• BITTERWEED
  A species of Ambrosia ; Roman worm wood. Gray.
• MEADOW
  1. A tract of low or level land producing grass which is mown for hay; any field on which grass is grown for hay. 2. Low land covered with coarse grass or rank herbage near rives and in marshy places by the sea; as, the salt meadows near Newark
• BITTERSWEET
  Sweet and then bitter or bitter and then sweet; esp. sweet with a bitter after taste; hence , pleasant but painful.
• BITTERS
  A liquor, generally spirituous in which a bitter herb, leaf, or root is steeped.
• CONTAINMENT
  That which is contained; the extent; the substance. The containment of a rich man's estate. Fuller.
• BITTERBUMP
  the butterbump or bittern.
• BITTERWORT
  The yellow gentian , which has a very bitter taste.
• CONTAINANT
  A container.
• BITTERLY
  In a bitter manner.
• BITTERWOOD
  A West Indian tree from the wood of which the bitter drug Jamaica quassia is obtained.
• BITTERISH
  Somewhat bitter. Goldsmith.
• BITTERN
  1. The brine which remains in salt works after the salt is concreted, having a bitter taste from the chloride of magnesium which it contains. 2. A very bitter compound of quassia, cocculus Indicus, etc., used by fraudulent brewers in adulterating
• CRESSET
  A small furnace or iron cage to hold fire for charring the inside of a cask, and making the staves flexible. Knight. (more info) torch; perh. of Dutch or German origin, and akin to E. cruse, F. 1. An open frame or basket of iron, filled
• BITTERFUL
  Full of bitterness.
• BITTER
  AA turn of the cable which is round the bitts. Bitter end, that part of a cable which is abaft the bitts, and so within board, when the ship rides at anchor.
• CONTAINABLE
  Capable of being contained or comprised. Boyle.
• BITTER SPAR
  A common name of dolomite; -- so called because it contains magnesia, the soluble salts of which are bitter. See Dolomite.
• CRUCIFEROUS
  Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a family of plants which have four petals arranged like the arms of a cross, as the mustard, radish, turnip, etc. (more info) 1. Bearing a cross.
• CONTAINER
  One who, or that which, contains.
• BITTERNUT
  The swamp hickory . Its thin-shelled nuts are bitter.
• PARA CRESS
  An annual asteraceous herb grown in tropical countries as a pungent salad, and also used medicinally.
• IMBITTER
  To make bitter; hence, to make distressing or more distressing; to make sad, morose, sour, or malignant. Is there anything that more imbitters the enjoyment of this life than shame South. Imbittered against each other by former contests. Bancroft.
• SUBGENUS
  A subdivision of a genus, comprising one or more species which differ from other species of the genus in some important character or characters; as, the azaleas now constitute a subgenus of Rhododendron.
• IMBITTERMENT
  The act of imbittering; bitter feeling; embitterment.
• SELF-CONTAINED
  Having all the essential working parts connected by a bedplate or framework, or contained in a case, etc., so that mutual relations of the parts do not depend upon fastening outside of the machine itself. Self-contained steam engine.