Word Meanings - REDWITHE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A west Indian climbing shrub with slender reddish branchlets.

Related words: (words related to REDWITHE)

• INDIANEER
  An Indiaman.
• REDDISH
  Somewhat red; moderately red. -- Red"dish*ness, n.
• SHRUBBY
  1. Full of shrubs. 2. Of the nature of a shrub; resembling a shrub. "Shrubby browse." J. Philips.
• SLENDER
  Uttered with a thin tone; -- the opposite of broad; as, the slender vowels long e and i. -- Slen"der*ly, adv. -- Slen"der*ness, n. (more info) slendre, sclendre, fr. OD. slinder thin, slender, perhaps through a French form; cf. OD. slinderen,
• SHRUBLESS
  having no shrubs. Byron.
• SHRUBBINESS
  Quality of being shrubby.
• CLIMBABLE
  Capable of being climbed.
• SHRUB
  A liquor composed of vegetable acid, especially lemon juice, and sugar, with spirit to preserve it.
• INDIAN
  river in Asia, L. Indus, Gr. Hindu, name of the land on the Indus, 1. Of or pertaining to India proper; also to the East Indies, or, sometimes, to the West Indies. 2. Of or pertaining to the aborigines, or Indians, of America; as, Indian wars;
• CLIMB
  To ascend or creep upward by twining about a support, or by attaching itself by tendrills, rootlets, etc., to a support or upright surface. (more info) 1. To ascend or mount laboriously, esp. by use of the hands and feet. 2. To ascend as if with
• SHRUBBERY
  1. A collection of shrubs. 2. A place where shrubs are planted. Macaulay.
• CLIMBING
  p. pr. & vb. n. of Climb. Climbing fern. See under Fern. -- Climbing perch. See Anabas, and Labyrinthici.
• CLIMBER
  One who, or that which, climbs: A plant that climbs. A bird that climbs, as a woodpecker or a parrot.
• EAST INDIAN
  Belonging to, or relating to, the East Indies. -- n.
• OUTCLIMB
  To climb bevond; to surpass in climbing. Davenant.
• UNSHRUBBED
  Being without shrubs.
• WEST INDIAN
  A native of, or a dweller in, the West Indies.
• WEST INDIA; WEST INDIAN
  Belonging or relating to the West Indies. West India tea , a shrubby plant having oblanceolate toothed leaves which are sometimes used in the West Indies as a substitute for tea.
• UPCLIMB
  To climb up; to ascend. Upclomb the shadowy pine above the woven copse. Tennyson.
• UNDERSHRUB
  Partly shrublike.
• OVERCLIMB
  To climb over. Surrey.