Word Meanings - BACHELORSBUTTON - Book Publishers vocabulary database

, (Bot.) A plant with flowers shaped like buttons; especially, several species of Ranunculus, and the cornflower (Centaures cyanus) and globe amaranth (Gomphrena). Note: Bachelor's buttons, a name given to several flowers "from their similitude to the jagged cloathe buttons, anciently worne in this kingdom", according to Johnson's Gerarde, p.472 (1633); but by other writers ascribed to "a habit of country fellows to carry them in their pockets to divine their success with their sweethearts." Dr. Prior.

• GLOBESHAPED
  Shaped like a globe.
• Habiting
  of Habit
• Habitue
  One who habitually frequents a place; as, an habitue of a theater.
• Othergates
  In another manner.
• Plantar
  Of or pertaining to the sole of the foot; as, the plantar arteries.
• Priority
  The quality or state of being prior or antecedent in time, or of preceding something else; as, priority of application.
• Amaranthine
  Of or pertaining to amaranth.
• Shaping
  of Shape
• Carryall
  A light covered carriage, having four wheels and seats for four or more persons, usually drawn by one horse.
• Successively
  In a successive manner.
• Divinement
  Divination.
• Divineness
  The quality of being divine; superhuman or supreme excellence.
• HABITANCY
  Same as Inhabitancy.
• Habitability
  Habitableness.
• Habiture
  Habitude.
• Otherguise
  Alt. of Otherguess
• Plantation
  The act or practice of planting, or setting in the earth for growth.
• Priorly
  Previously.
• Amaranthus
  Alt. of Amarantus

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