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.