Word Meanings - SPERMOPHYTE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Any plant which produces true seeds; -- a term recently proposed to replace phænogam.

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• REPLACEMENT
  The removal of an edge or an angle by one or more planes. (more info) 1. The act of replacing.
• PROPOSER
  1. One who proposes or offers anything for consideration or adoption. 2. A speaker; an orator. Shak.
• 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.
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• 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.
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• 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.
• PROPOSE
  1. To set forth. That being proposed brimfull of wine, one scarce could lift it up. Chapman. 2. To offer for consideration, discussion, acceptance, or adoption; as, to propose terms of peace; to propose a question for discussion; to propose an
• 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.
• RECENTLY
  Newly; lately; freshly; not long since; as, advices recently received.
• REPLACEABILITY
  The quality, state, or degree of being replaceable.
• PLANTAL
  Belonging to plants; as, plantal life. Dr. H. More.
• PLANTLET
  A little plant.
• PROPOSITION
  A complete sentence, or part of a sentence consisting of a subject and predicate united by a copula; a thought expressed or propounded in language; a from of speech in which a predicate is affirmed or denied of a subject; as, snow is white. (more
• 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
• PHAENOGAMIAN; PHAENOGAMIC
  See PHæNOGAMOUS
• PHAENOGAMIA
  The class of flowering plants including all which have true flowers with distinct floral organs; phanerogamia.
• LAMINIPLANTAR
  Having the tarsus covered behind with a horny sheath continuous on both sides, as in most singing birds, except the larks.
• 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.
• MONOGAM
  One of the Monogamia.
• GEITONOGAMY
  Fertilization of flowers by pollen from other flowers on the same plant.
• DEPLANT
  To take up ; to transplant.