Word Meanings - MENSES - Book Publishers vocabulary database
The catamenial or menstrual discharge, a periodic flow of blood or bloody fluid from the uterus or female generative organs.
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- PERIODIC; PERIODICAL
Of or pertaining to a period; constituting a complete sentence. Periodic comet , a comet that moves about the sun in an elliptic orbit; a comet that has been seen at two of its approaches to the sun. -- Periodic function , a function whose values - BLOODSUCKER
Any animal that sucks blood; esp., the leech (Hirudo medicinalis), and related species. 2. One who sheds blood; a cruel, bloodthirsty man; one guilty of bloodshed; a murderer. Shak. 3. A hard and exacting master, landlord, or money lender; an - BLOODSHEDDER
One who sheds blood; a manslayer; a murderer. - FEMALE
A plant which produces only that kind of reproductive organs which are capable of developing into fruit after impregnation or fertilization; a pistillate plant. (more info) 1. An individual of the sex which conceives and brings forth young, or - BLOODULF
The European bullfinch. - CATAMENIAL
Pertaining to the catamenia, or menstrual discharges. - BLOODROOT
A plant , with a red root and red sap, and bearing a pretty, white flower in early spring; -- called also puccoon, redroot, bloodwort, tetterwort, turmeric, and Indian paint. It has acrid emetic properties, and the rootstock is used as a stimulant - BLOODY-MINDED
Having a cruel, ferocious disposition; bloodthirsty. Dryden. - BLOODSHEDDING
Bloodshed. Shak. - BLOODINESS
1. The state of being bloody. 2. Disposition to shed blood; bloodthirstiness. All that bloodiness and savage cruelty which was in our nature. Holland. - FLUID
Having particles which easily move and change their relative position without a separation of the mass, and which easily yield to pressure; capable of flowing; liquid or gaseous. - UTERUS
The organ of a female mammal in which the young are developed previous to birth; the womb. Note: The uterus is simply an enlargement of the oviduct, and in the lower mammals there is one on each side, but in the higher forms the two become more - BLOODWORT
A plant, Rumex sanguineus, or bloody-veined dock. The name is applied also to bloodroot , and to an extensive order of plants , the roots of many species of which contain a red coloring matter useful in dyeing. - FLUIDAL
Pertaining to a fluid, or to its flowing motion. Fluidal structure , the structure characteristic of certain volcanic rocks in which the arrangement of the minute crystals shows the lines of flow of thew molten material before solidification; -- - BLOODSHOT
Red and inflamed; suffused with blood, or having the vessels turgid with blood, as when the conjunctiva is inflamed or irritated. His eyes were bloodshot, . . . and his hair disheveled. Dickens. - PERIODICALLY
In a periodical manner. - BLOODWOOD
A tree having the wood or the sap of the color of blood. Note: Norfolk Island bloodwood is a euphorbiaceous tree (Baloghia lucida), from which the sap is collected for use as a plant. Various other trees have the name, chiefly on account of the - GENERATIVE
Having the power of generating, propagating, originating, or producing. "That generative particle." Bentley. - FLUIDRACHM
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Having pure blood, or a large admixture or pure blood; of approved breed; of the best stock. Note: Used also in composition in phrases indicating a particular condition or quality of blood; as, cold-blooded; warm-blooded. - 'SBLOOD
An abbreviation of God's blood; -- used as an oath. Shak. - RETROGENERATIVE
Begetting young by retrocopulation. - ANTIPERIODIC
A remedy possessing the property of preventing the return of periodic paroxysms, or exacerbations, of disease, as in intermittent fevers. - HALF-BLOODED
1. Proceeding from a male and female of different breeds or races; having only one parent of good stock; as, a half-blooded sheep. 2. Degenerate; mean.