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Word Meanings - ROOTLET - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A radicle; a little root.

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  • LITTLENESS
    The state or quality of being little; as, littleness of size, thought, duration, power, etc. Syn. -- Smallness; slightness; inconsiderableness; narrowness; insignificance; meanness; penuriousness.
  • LITTLE-EASE
    An old slang name for the pillory, stocks, etc., of a prison. Latimer.
  • LITTLE
    place being supplied by less, or, rarely, lesser. See Lesser. For the superlative least is used, the regular form, littlest, occurring very rarely, except in some of the English provinces, and occasionally in colloquial language. " Where love is
  • RADICLE
    The rudimentary stem of a plant which supports the cotyledons in the seed, and from which the root is developed downward; the stem of the embryo; the caulicle. A rootlet; a radicel.
  • DO-LITTLE
    One who performs little though professing much. Great talkers are commonly dolittles. Bp. Richardson.
  • BELITTLE
    To make little or less in a moral sense; to speak of in a depreciatory or contemptuous way. T. Jefferson.

 

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