Word Meanings - RATTOON - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One of the stems or shoots of sugar cane of the second year's growth from the root, or later. See Plant-cane.

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• SECOND
  1. Immediately following the first; next to the first in order of place or time; hence, occuring again; another; other. And he slept and dreamed the second time. Gen. xli. 5. 2. Next to the first in value, power, excellence, dignity,
• SUGARPLUM
  A kind of candy or sweetneat made up in small balls or disks.
• LATERAN
  The church and palace of St. John Lateran, the church being the cathedral church of Rome, and the highest in rank of all churches in the Catholic world. Note: The name is said to have been derived from that of the Laterani family, who possessed
• PLANTIGRADA
  A subdivision of Carnivora having plantigrade feet. It includes the bears, raccoons, and allied species.
• LATERAL
  Lying at, or extending toward, the side; away from the mesial plane; external; -- opposed to mesial. 3. Directed to the side; as, a lateral view of a thing. Lateral cleavage , cleavage parallel to the lateral planes. -- Lateral equation
• 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.
• LATERALLY
  By the side; sidewise; toward, or from, the side.
• SUGARED
  Sweetened. "The sugared liquor." Spenser.
• SUGARY
  1. Resembling or containing sugar; tasting of sugar; sweet. Spenser. 2. Fond of sugar or sweet things; as, a sugary palate.
• LATER
  A brick or tile. Knight.
• SECOND-CLASS
  Of the rank or degree below the best highest; inferior; second- rate; as, a second-class house; a second-class passage.
• STEMSON
  A piece of curved timber bolted to the stem, keelson, and apron in a ship's frame near the bow.
• 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.
• LATERIFOLIOUS
  Growing from the stem by the side of a leaf; as, a laterifolious flower.
• PLANTLESS
  Without plants; barren of vegetation.
• SUGARLESS
  Without sugar; free from sugar.
• SECONDER
  One who seconds or supports what another attempts, affirms, moves, or proposes; as, the seconder of an enterprise or of a motion.
• SECONDLY
  In the second place.
• 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
• SLATER
  One who lays slates, or whose occupation is to slate buildings.
• MISGROWTH
  Bad growth; an unnatural or abnormal growth.
• LAMINIPLANTAR
  Having the tarsus covered behind with a horny sheath continuous on both sides, as in most singing birds, except the larks.
• INFLATER
  One who, or that which, inflates; as, the inflaters of the stock exchange.
• IMPLANTATION
  The act or process of implantating.
• INGROWTH
  A growth or development inward. J. LeConte.
• OUTGROWTH
  That which grows out of, or proceeds from, anything; an excrescence; an offshoot; hence, a result or consequence.