Word Meanings - WINEBERRY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The red currant. The bilberry. A peculiar New Zealand shrub , in which the petals ripen and afford an abundant purple juice from which a kind of wine is made. The plant also grows in Chili.

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• PECULIARIZE
  To make peculiar; to set appart or assign, as an exclusive possession. Dr. John Smith.
• CHILIAN
  Of or pertaining to Chili. -- n.
• 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.
• JUICE
  The characteristic fluid of any vegetable or animal substance; the sap or part which can be expressed from fruit, etc.; the fluid part which separates from meat in cooking. An animal whose juices are unsound. Arbuthnot. The juice of July flowers.
• PECULIARNESS
  The quality or state of being peculiar; peculiarity. Mede.
• CURRANT
  A shrub or bush of several species of the genus Ribes (a genus also including the gooseberry); esp., the Ribes rubrum. Black currant,a shrub or bush and its black, strong-flavored, tonic fruit. -- Cherry currant, a variety of the red currant,
• SHRUBBY
  1. Full of shrubs. 2. Of the nature of a shrub; resembling a shrub. "Shrubby browse." J. Philips.
• 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.
• SHRUBLESS
  having no shrubs. Byron.
• 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.
• PECULIARLY
  In a peculiar manner; particulary; in a rare and striking degree; unusually.
• ABUNDANTLY
  In a sufficient degree; fully; amply; plentifully; in large measure.
• CHILIASTIC
  Millenarian. "The obstruction offered by the chiliastic errors." J. A. Alexander.
• ABUNDANT
  Fully sufficient; plentiful; in copious supply; -- followed by in, rarely by with. "Abundant in goodness and truth." Exod. xxxiv. 6. Abundant number , a number, the sum of whose aliquot parts exceeds the number itself. Thus, 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, the
• 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
• ZANTE CURRANT
  A kind of seedless grape or raisin; -- so called from Zante, one of the Ionian Islands.
• TROCHILIC
  OF or pertaining to rotary motion; having power to draw out or turn round. "By art trochilic." Camden.
• EMPURPLE
  To tinge or dye of a purple color; to color with purple; to impurple. "The deep empurpled ran." Philips.
• LAMINIPLANTAR
  Having the tarsus covered behind with a horny sheath continuous on both sides, as in most singing birds, except the larks.
• UNRIPENESS
  Quality or state of being unripe.
• IMPLANTATION
  The act or process of implantating.
• NEW ZEALAND
  A group of islands in the South Pacific Ocean. New Zealand flax. A tall, liliaceous herb , having very long, sword-shaped, distichous leaves which furnish a fine, strong fiber very valuable for cordage and the like. The fiber itself. -- New