Word Meanings - MARANTA - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A genus of endogenous plants found in tropical America, and some species also in India. They have tuberous roots containing a large amount of starch, and from one species arrowroot is obtained. Many kinds are cultivated for ornament.

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• INDIANEER
  An Indiaman.
• FOUNDATION
  The lowest and supporting part or member of a wall, including the base course , under Base, n.) and footing courses; in a frame house, the whole substructure of masonry. 4. A donation or legacy appropriated to support a charitable institution,
• FOUNDER
  One who founds, establishes, and erects; one who lays a foundation; an author; one from whom anything originates; one who endows.
• STARCHER
  One who starches.
• AMERICANIZATION
  The process of Americanizing.
• CONTAINMENT
  That which is contained; the extent; the substance. The containment of a rich man's estate. Fuller.
• CULTIVATABLE
  Cultivable.
• ORNAMENTAL
  Serving to ornament; characterized by ornament; beautifying; embellishing. Some think it most ornamental to wear their bracelets on their wrists; others, about their ankles. Sir T. Browne.
• TROPICALLY
  In a tropical manner; figuratively; metaphorically.
• OBTAINABLE
  Capable of being obtained.
• INDIA RUBBER
  . See Caoutchouc.
• FOUNDATIONER
  One who derives support from the funds or foundation of a college or school.
• FOUND
  imp. & p. p. of Find.
• 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,
• AMERICAN
  1. Of or pertaining to America; as, the American continent: American Indians. 2. Of or pertaining to the United States. "A young officer of the American navy." Lyell. American ivy. See Virginia creeper. -- American Party , a party, about 1854,
• AMERICANISM
  1. Attachment to the United States. 2. A custom peculiar to the United States or to America; an American characteristic or idea. 3. A word or phrase peculiar to the United States.
• FOUNDEROUS
  Difficult to travel; likely to trip one up; as, a founderous road. Burke.
• AMERICAN PLAN
  In hotels, aplan upon which guests pay for both room and board by the day, week, or other convenient period; -- contrasted with European plan.
• FOUNDRESS
  A female founder; a woman who founds or establishes, or who endows with a fund.
• STARCHED
  1. Stiffened with starch. 2. Stiff; precise; formal. Swift.
• CONFOUNDED
  1. Confused; perplexed. A cloudy and confounded philosopher. Cudworth. 2. Excessive; extreme; abominable. He was a most confounded tory. Swift. The tongue of that confounded woman. Sir. W. Scott.
• EAST INDIAN
  Belonging to, or relating to, the East Indies. -- n.
• ENLARGEMENT
  1. The act of increasing in size or bulk, real or apparent; the state of being increased; augmentation; further extension; expansion. 2. Expansion or extension, as of the powers of the mind; ennoblement, as of the feelings and character; as, an
• REOBTAINABLE
  That may be reobtained.
• 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.
• FOOL-LARGESSE
  Foolish expenditure; waste. Chaucer.
• LINDIA
  A peculiar genus of rotifers, remarkable for the absence of ciliated disks. By some zoölogists it is thought to be like the ancestral form of the Arthropoda.