Word Meanings - PHAEOSPORE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A brownish zoöspore, characteristic of an order of dark green or olive-colored algæ. -- Phæ`o*spor"ic, a.

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• GREENLANDER
  A native of Greenland.
• COLORMAN
  A vender of paints, etc. Simmonds.
• GREENLET
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• CHARACTERISTIC
  Pertaining to, or serving to constitute, the character; showing the character, or distinctive qualities or traits, of a person or thing; peculiar; distinctive. Characteristic clearness of temper. Macaulay.
• GREENSAND
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  See POLLOCK
• GREENOCKITE
  Native cadmium sulphide, a mineral occurring in yellow hexagonal crystals, also as an earthy incrustation.
• OLIVERIAN
  An adherent of Oliver Cromwell. Macaulay.
• GREENHOUSE
  A house in which tender plants are cultivated and sheltered from the weather.
• OLIVED
  Decorated or furnished with olive trees. T. Warton.
• GREENWEED
  See GREENBROOM
• OLIVEWOOD
  The wood of the olive. An Australian name given to the hard white wood of certain trees of the genus Elæodendron, and also to the trees themselves.
• GREENHORN
  A raw, inexperienced person; one easily imposed upon. W. Irving.
• GREEN-STALL
  A stall at which greens and fresh vegetables are exposed for sale.
• COLORATE
  Colored. Ray.
• COLORIMETRY
  The quantitative determination of the depth of color of a substance. 2. A method of quantitative chemical analysis based upon the comparison of the depth of color of a solution with that of a standard liquid.
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  Somewhat green; having a tinge of green; as, a greenish yellow. -- Green"ish*ness, n.
• GREENBACKER
  One of those who supported greenback or paper money, and opposed the resumption of specie payments.
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• PHAEOSPORE
  A brownish zoöspore, characteristic of an order of dark green or olive-colored algæ. -- Phæ`o*spor"ic, a.
• IMBORDER
  To furnish or inclose with a border; to form a border of. Milton.
• EPISPORE
  The thickish outer coat of certain spores.
• AYEGREEN
  The houseleek . Halliwell.
• BRUNSWICK GREEN
  An oxychloride of copper, used as a green pigment; also, a carbonate of copper similarly employed.
• DIASPORE
  A hydrate of alumina, often occurring in white lamellar masses with brilliant pearly luster; -- so named on account of its decrepitating when heated before the blowpipe.
• MISORDER
  To order ill; to manage erroneously; to conduct badly. Shak.