Word Meanings - SOLANOID - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Resembling a potato; -- said of a kind of cancer.

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• POTATO
  A plant of the Nightshade family, and its esculent farinaceous tuber, of which there are numerous varieties used for food. It is native of South America, but a form of the species is found native as far north as New Mexico. The sweet potato
• CANCER
  A genus of decapod Crustacea, including some of the most common shore crabs of Europe and North America, as the rock crab, Jonah crab, etc. See Crab. The fourth of the twelve signs of the zodiac. The first point is the northern limit of the sun's
• RESEMBLINGLY
  So as to resemble; with resemblance or likeness.
• CANCERATE
  To grow into a canser; to become cancerous. Boyle.
• RESEMBLANT
  Having or exhibiting resemblance; resembling. Gower.
• RESEMBLE
  sembler to seem, resemble, fr. L. similare, simulare, to imitate, fr. 1. To be like or similar to; to bear the similitude of, either in appearance or qualities; as, these brothers resemble each other. We will resemble you in that. Shak.
• RESEMBLABLE
  Admitting of being compared; like. Gower.
• POTATOR
  A drinker. Southey.
• CANCERITE
  Like a cancer; having the qualities or virulence of a cancer; affected with cancer. "Cancerous vices." G. Eliot. -- Can"cer*ous*ly, adv. -- Can"cer*ous*ness, n.
• POTATORY
  Of or pertaining to drinking. Ld. Lytton.
• CANCEROUS
  Like a cancer; having the qualities or virulence of a cancer; affected with cancer. "cancerous vices" G. Eliot. -- Can"cer*ous*ly, adv. --Can"cer*ous*ness, n.
• RESEMBLER
  One who resembles.
• RESEMBLANCE
  1. The quality or state of resembling; likeness; similitude; similarity. One main end of poetry and painting is to please; they bear a great resemblance to each other. Dryden. 2. That which resembles, or is similar; a representation; a likeness.
• CANCERATION
  The act or state of becoming cancerous or growing into a cancer.
• COMPOTATOR
  One who drinks with another. Pope.
• NONRESEMBLANCE
  Want of resemblance; unlikeness; dissimilarity.