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Word Meanings - ERYTHROXYLON - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A genus of shrubs or small trees of the Flax family, growing in tropical countries. E. Coca is the source of cocaine. See Coca.

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  • GROWLER
    The large-mouthed black bass. 3. A four-wheeled cab. (more info) 1. One who growls.
  • GROWL
    To utter a deep guttural sound, sa an angry dog; to give forth an angry, grumbling sound. Gay.
  • SMALLISH
    Somewhat small. G. W. Cable.
  • FAMILY
    A groupe of organisms, either animal or vegetable, related by certain points of resemblance in structure or development, more comprehensive than a genus, because it is usually based on fewer or less pronounced points of likeness. In zoölogy
  • TROPICALLY
    In a tropical manner; figuratively; metaphorically.
  • GROWAN
    A decomposed granite, forming a mass of gravel, as in tin lodes in Cornwall.
  • GROWER
    One who grows or produces; as, a grower of corn; also, that which grows or increases; as, a vine may be a rank or a slow grower.
  • GROW
    1. To increase in size by a natural and organic process; to increase in bulk by the gradual assimilation of new matter into the living organism; -- said of animals and vegetables and their organs. 2. To increase in any way; to become larger and
  • SMALLCLOTHES
    A man's garment for the hips and thighs; breeches. See Breeches.
  • SMALLPOX
    A contagious, constitutional, febrile disease characterized by a peculiar eruption; variola. The cutaneous eruption is at first a collection of papules which become vesicles (first flat, subsequently umbilicated) and then pustules, and finally thick
  • SMALL
    sm$l; akin to D. smal narrow, OS. & OHG. smal small, G. schmal narrow, Dan. & Sw. smal, Goth. smals small, Icel. smali smal cattle, sheep, or goats; cf. Gr. 1. Having little size, compared with other things of the same kind; little in quantity
  • GROWLINGLY
    In a growling manner.
  • GROWTHEAD
    A lazy person; a blockhead. Tusser.
  • SMALLAGE
    A biennial umbelliferous plant native of the seacoats of Europe and Asia. When deprived of its acrid and even poisonous properties by cultivation, it becomes celery.
  • SMALLY
    In a small quantity or degree; with minuteness. Ascham.
  • GROWTH
    1. The process of growing; the gradual increase of an animal or a vegetable body; the development from a seed, germ, or root, to full size or maturity; increase in size, number, frequency, strength, etc.; augmentation; advancement; production;
  • GROWTHFUL
    Having capacity of growth. J. Hamilton.
  • COCAINE
    A powerful alkaloid, C17H21NO4, obtained from the leaves of coca. It is a bitter, white, crystalline substance, and is remarkable for producing local insensibility to pain.
  • GROWSE
    To shiver; to have chills. Ray.
  • GENUS
    A class of objects divided into several subordinate species; a class more extensive than a species; a precisely defined and exactly divided class; one of the five predicable conceptions, or sorts of terms.
  • UPGROW
    To grow up. Milton.
  • DISMALLY
    In a dismal manner; gloomily; sorrowfully; uncomfortably.
  • FULL-GROWN
    Having reached the limits of growth; mature. "Full-grown wings." Lowell.
  • MISGROWTH
    Bad growth; an unnatural or abnormal growth.
  • 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.
  • RESOURCE
    Pecuniary means; funds; money, or any property that can be converted into supplies; available means or capabilities of any kind. Scotland by no means escaped the fate ordained for every country which is connected, but not incorporated, with another
  • INGROWTH
    A growth or development inward. J. LeConte.
  • OUTGROWTH
    That which grows out of, or proceeds from, anything; an excrescence; an offshoot; hence, a result or consequence.
  • INGROWING
    Growing or appearing to grow into some other substance. Ingrowing nail, one whose edges are becoming imbedded in the adjacent flesh.
  • LIVER-GROWN
    Having an enlarged liver. Dunglison.
  • OVERGROW
    1. To grow over; to cover with growth or herbage, esp. that which is rank. The green . . . is rough and overgrown. Sir W. Scott. 2. To grow beyond; to rise above; hence, to overcome; to oppress.
  • MOSS-GROWN
    Overgrown with moss.

 

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