Word Meanings - STALLON - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A slip from a plant; a scion; a cutting. Holished.

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• CUTTHROAT
  One who cuts throats; a murderer; an assassin.
• 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.
• SCION
  A shoot or sprout of a plant; a sucker. 2. Hence, a descendant; an heir; as, a scion of a royal stock.
• 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.
• CUTTY
  Short; as, a cutty knife; a cutty sark.
• 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.
• CUTTING
  1. The act or process of making an incision, or of severing, felling, shaping, etc. 2. Something cut, cut off, or cut out, as a twig or
• CUTTYSTOOL
  1. A low stool 2. A seat in old Scottish churches, where offenders were made to sit, for public rebuke by the minister.
• 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.
• 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.
• PLANTAL
  Belonging to plants; as, plantal life. Dr. H. More.
• CUTTLE BONE
  The shell or bone of cuttlefishes, used for various purposes, as for making polishing powder, etc.
• CUTTINGLY
  In a cutting manner.
• PLANTLET
  A little plant.
• PLANT-EATING
  Eating, or subsisting on, plants; as, a plant-eating beetle.
• 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
• STRAW-CUTTER
  An instrument to cut straw for fodder.
• LAMINIPLANTAR
  Having the tarsus covered behind with a horny sheath continuous on both sides, as in most singing birds, except the larks.
• SWARD-CUTTER
  A plow for turning up grass land. A lawn mower.
• SCUTTLE
  both fr. L. scutella, dim. of scutra, scuta, a dish or platter; cf. 1. A broad, shallow basket. 2. A wide-mouthed vessel for holding coal: a coal hod.
• 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.
• CHALKCUTTER
  A man who digs chalk.
• DEPLANT
  To take up ; to transplant.
• FLAX-PLANT
  A plant in new Zealand , allied to the lilies and aloes. The leaves are two inches wide and several feet long, and furnish a fiber which is used for making ropes, mats, and coarse cloth.