Word Meanings - MESEMBRYANTHEMUM - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A genus of herbaceous or suffruticose plants, chiefly natives of South Africa. The leaves are opposite, thick, and f
Related words: (words related to MESEMBRYANTHEMUM)
- THICKENING
Something put into a liquid or mass to make it thicker. - SOUTHWEST
Pertaining to, or in the direction of, the southwest; proceeding toward the southwest; coming from the southwest; as, a southwest wind. - SOUTHSAY
See SOOTHSAY - SOUTHWESTERLY
To ward or from the southwest; as, a southwesterly course; a southwesterly wind. - SOUTHPAW
A pitcher who pitches with the left hand. - THICK WIND
A defect of respiration in a horse, that is unassociated with noise in breathing or with the signs of emphysema. - THICK
1. Frequently; fast; quick. 2. Closely; as, a plat of ground thick sown. 3. To a great depth, or to a greater depth than usual; as, land covered thick with manure. Thick and threefold, in quick succession, or in great numbers. L'Estrange. - SOUTHERNLINESS
Southerliness. - AFRICAN
A native of Africa; also one ethnologically belonging to an African race. - SOUTHREN
Southern. "I am a Southren man." Chaucer. - AFRICANISM
A word, phrase, idiom, or custom peculiar to Africa or Africans. "The knotty Africanisms . . . of the fathers." Milton. - THICK-SKINNED
Having a thick skin; hence, not sensitive; dull; obtuse. Holland. - OPPOSITE
1. One who opposes; an opponent; an antagonist. The opposites of this day's strife. Shak. 2. That which is opposed or contrary; as, sweetness and its opposite. The virtuous man meets with more opposites and opponents than any other. Landor. - THICKNESS
The quality or state of being thick (in any of the senses of the adjective). - THICKSET
1. A close or thick hedge. 2. A stout, twilled cotton cloth; a fustian corduroy, or velveteen. McElrath. - THICK-WINDED
Affected with thick wind. - THICKBILL
The bullfinch. - SOUTHSAYER
See SOOTHSAYER - SOUTH; SOUTHERLY
the old squaw; -- so called in imitation of its cry. Called also southerly, and southerland. See under Old. - SOUTHING
Distance of any heavenly body south of the equator; south declination; south latitude. (more info) 1. Tendency or progress southward; as, the southing of the sun. Emerson. 2. The time at which the moon, or other heavenly body, passes the meridian - 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. - PARKLEAVES
A European species of Saint John's-wort; the tutsan. See Tutsan. - EURAFRIC; EURAFRICAN
Of, pertaining to, or designating, the continents of Europe and Africa combined. 2. Pert. to or designating a region including most of Europe and northern Africa south to the Sahara. 3. Of European and African descent. - AFRICANIZE
To place under the domination of Africans or negroes. Bartlett. - SOUTHNESS
A tendency in the end of a magnetic needle to point toward the south pole. Faraday. - THICK-SKULLED
Having a thick skull; hence, dull; heavy; stupid; slow to learn.