Word Meanings - RATTLEWEED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Any plant of the genus Astragalus. See Milk vetch.

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• VETCH
  Any leguminous plant of the genus Vicia, some species of which are valuable for fodder. The common species is V. sativa. Note: The name is also applied to many other leguminous plants of different genera; as the chichling vetch, of the
• PLANTIGRADA
  A subdivision of Carnivora having plantigrade feet. It includes the bears, raccoons, and allied species.
• PLANTULE
  The embryo which has begun its development in the act of germination.
• PLANTIGRADE
  Walking on the sole of the foot; pertaining to the plantigrades. Having the foot so formed that the heel touches the ground when the leg is upright.
• VETCHY
  1. Consisting of vetches or of pea straw. "A vetchy bed." Spenser. 2. Abounding with vetches.
• PLANTOCRACY
  Government by planters; planters, collectively.
• PLANTERSHIP
  The occupation or position of a planter, or the management of a plantation, as in the United States or the West Indies.
• PLANTLESS
  Without plants; barren of vegetation.
• PLANT-CANE
  A stalk or shoot of sugar cane of the first growth from the cutting. The growth of the second and following years is of inferior quality, and is called rattoon.
• PLANTED
  Fixed in place, as a projecting member wrought on a separate piece of stuff; as, a planted molding.
• PLANTAIN
  A treelike perennial herb of tropical regions, bearing immense leaves and large clusters of the fruits called plantains. See Musa. 2. The fruit of this plant. It is long and somewhat cylindrical, slightly curved, and, when ripe, soft, fleshy,
• PLANTICLE
  A young plant, or plant in embryo. E. Darwin.
• VETCHLING
  Any small leguminous plant of the genus Lathyrus, especially L. Nissolia.
• PLANTAL
  Belonging to plants; as, plantal life. Dr. H. More.
• PLANTLET
  A little plant.
• GENUS
  A class of objects divided into several subordinate species; a class more extensive than a species; a precisely defined and exactly divided class; one of the five predicable conceptions, or sorts of terms.
• PLANT-EATING
  Eating, or subsisting on, plants; as, a plant-eating beetle.
• PLANTAGE
  A word used once by Shakespeare to designate plants in general, or anything that is planted. As true as steel, as plantage to the moon. Shak. .
• PLANTAR
  Of or pertaining to the sole of the foot; as, the plantar arteries.
• PLANTING
  The laying of the first courses of stone in a foundation. (more info) 1. The act or operation of setting in the ground for propagation, as seeds, trees, shrubs, etc.; the forming of plantations, as of trees; the carrying on of plantations, as of
• DISPLANTATION
  The act of displanting; removal; displacement. Sir W. Raleigh.
• SUPPLANT
  heels, to throw down; sub under + planta the sole of the foot, also, 1. To trip up. "Supplanted, down he fell." Milton. 2. To remove or displace by stratagem; to displace and take the place of; to supersede; as, a rival supplants another in the
• CHICHLING; CHICHLING VETCH
  A leguminous plant , with broad flattened seeds which are sometimes used for food.
• LAMINIPLANTAR
  Having the tarsus covered behind with a horny sheath continuous on both sides, as in most singing birds, except the larks.
• 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.
• IMPLANTATION
  The act or process of implantating.
• EGGPLANT
  A plant , of East Indian origin, allied to the tomato, and bearing a large, smooth, edible fruit, shaped somewhat like an egg; mad-apple.
• MILK VETCH
  A leguminous herb of Europe and Asia, supposed to increase the secretion of milk in goats. Note: The name is sometimes taken for the whole genus Astragalus, of which there are about two hundred species in North America, and even more elsewhere.
• DEPLANT
  To take up ; to transplant.
• FLAX-PLANT
  A plant in new Zealand , allied to the lilies and aloes. The leaves are two inches wide and several feet long, and furnish a fiber which is used for making ropes, mats, and coarse cloth.
• PIEPLANT
  A plant the leafstalks of which are acid, and are used in making pies; the garden rhubarb.