Word Meanings - CONIFERIN - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A glucoside extracted from the cambium layer of coniferous trees as a white crystalline substance.
Related words: (words related to CONIFERIN)
- WHITECAP
The European redstart; -- so called from its white forehead. The whitethroat; -- so called from its gray head. The European tree sparrow. 2. A wave whose crest breaks into white foam, as when the wind is freshening. - WHITE-FRONTED
Having a white front; as, the white-fronted lemur. White- fronted goose , the white brant, or snow goose. See Snow goose, under Snow. - WHITE FLY
Any one of numerous small injurious hemipterous insects of the genus Aleyrodes, allied to scale insects. They are usually covered with a white or gray powder. - WHITESTER
A bleacher of lines; a whitener; a whitster. - WHITE-HEART
A somewhat heart-shaped cherry with a whitish skin. - WHITESIDE
The golden-eye. - SUBSTANCE
To furnish or endow with substance; to supply property to; to make rich. - WHITE-EAR
The wheatear. - GLUCOSIDE
One of a large series of amorphous or crystalline substances, occurring very widely distributed in plants, rarely in animals, and regarded as influental agents in the formation and disposition of the sugars. They are frequently of a bitter taste, - WHITEBLOW
See WHITLOW - LAYERING
A propagating by layers. Gardner. - EXTRACTABLE; EXTRACTIBLE
Capable of being extracted. - WHITEWING
The chaffinch; -- so called from the white bands on the wing. The velvet duck. - WHITEWALL
The spotted flycatcher; -- so called from the white color of the under parts. - WHITE MUSTARD
A kind of mustard with rough-hairy foliage, a long-beaked hispid pod, and pale seeds, which yield mustard and mustard oil. The plant is also grown for forage. - WHITE-WATER
A dangerous disease of sheep. - WHITETHROAT
Any one of several species of Old World warblers, esp. the common European species , called also strawsmear, nettlebird, muff, and whitecap, the garden whitethroat, or golden warbler , and the lesser whitethroat . - WHITEBILL
The American coot. - WHITE-EYE
Any one of several species of small Old World singing of the genus Zosterops, as Zosterops palpebrosus of India, and Z. coerulescens of Australia. The eyes are encircled by a ring of white feathers, whence the name. Called also bush creeper, and - WHITES
Leucorrh 2. The finest flour made from white wheat. 3. Cloth or garments of a plain white color. - WAYLAYER
One who waylays another. - HEPPELWHITE
Designating a light and elegant style developed in England under George III., chiefly by Messrs. A.Heppelwhite & Co. - SEMICRYSTALLINE
Half crystalline; -- said of certain cruptive rocks composed partly of crystalline, partly of amorphous matter. - TRACKLAYER
Any workman engaged in work involved in putting the track in place. -- Track"lay`ing, n. - HYPOCRYSTALLINE
Partly crystalline; -- said of rock which consists of crystals imbedded in a glassy ground mass. - MICROCRYSTALLINE
Crystalline on a fine, or microscopic, scale; consisting of fine crystals; as, the ground mass of certain porphyrics is microcrystalline.