Word Meanings - INDIGOFERA - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A genus of leguminous plants having many species, mostly in tropical countries, several of them yielding indigo, esp. Indigofera tinctoria, and I. Anil.
Related words: (words related to INDIGOFERA)
- HAVENED
Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats. - INDIGOTIC
Pertaining to, or derived from, indigo; as, indigotic acid, which is also called anilic or nitrosalicylic acid. - HAVENER
A harbor master. - TINCTORIAL
Of or relating to color or colors; imparting a color; as, tinctorial matter. Ure. - HAVELOCK
A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke. - YIELDABLE
Disposed to yield or comply. -- Yield"a*ble*ness, n. Bp. Hall. - TROPICALLY
In a tropical manner; figuratively; metaphorically. - YIELDANCE
1. The act of producing; yield; as, the yieldance of the earth. Bp. Hall. 2. The act of yielding; concession. South. - SPECIES
A group of individuals agreeing in common attributes, and designated by a common name; a conception subordinated to another conception, called a genus, or generic conception, from which it differs in containing or comprehending more attributes, - HAVE
haven, habben, AS. habben ; akin to OS. hebbian, D. hebben, OFries, hebba, OHG. hab, G. haben, Icel. hafa, Sw. hafva, Dan. have, Goth. haban, and prob. to L. habere, whence F. 1. To hold in possession or control; to own; as, he has a farm. 2. - YIELDING
Inclined to give way, or comply; flexible; compliant; accommodating; as, a yielding temper. Yielding and paying , the initial words of that clause in leases in which the rent to be paid by the lessee is mentioned and reserved. Burrill. Syn. -- - HAVENAGE
Harbor dues; port dues. - HAVEN
habe, Dan. havn, Icel. höfn, Sw. hamn; akin to E. have, and hence orig., a holder; or to heave ; or akin to AS. hæf sea, 1. A bay, recess, or inlet of the sea, or the mouth of a river, which affords anchorage and shelter for shipping; a harbor; - INDIGOGEN
See INDIGO - HAVANA
Of or pertaining to Havana, the capital of the island of Cuba; as, an Havana cigar; -- formerly sometimes written Havannah. -- n. - HAVERSIAN
Pertaining to, or discovered by, Clopton Havers, an English physician of the seventeenth century. Haversian canals , the small canals through which the blood vessels ramify in bone. - YIELDER
One who yields. Shak. - INDIGOFERA
A genus of leguminous plants having many species, mostly in tropical countries, several of them yielding indigo, esp. Indigofera tinctoria, and I. Anil. - SEVERAL
1. Each particular taken singly; an item; a detail; an individual. There was not time enough to hear . . . The severals. Shak. 2. Persons oe objects, more than two, but not very many. Several of them neither rose from any conspicuous family, nor - SEVERALITY
Each particular taken singly; distinction. Bp. Hall. - YIELD
pay, give, restore, make an offering; akin to OFries. jelda, OS. geldan, D. gelden to cost, to be worth, G. gelten, OHG. geltan to pay, restore, make an offering, be worth, Icel. gjalda to pay, give up, Dan. gielde to be worth, Sw. gälla to be - MISBEHAVE
To behave ill; to conduct one's self improperly; -- often used with a reciprocal pronoun. - 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. - INSHAVE
A plane for shaving or dressing the concave or inside faces of barrel staves. - INNERMOSTLY
In the innermost place. His ebon cross worn innermostly. Mrs. Browning. - DRAWSHAVE
See KNIFE - MISBEHAVIOR
Improper, rude, or uncivil behavior; ill conduct. Addison. - INTERTROPICAL
Situated between or within the tropics. J. Morse.