Word Meanings - BARRENWORT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An herbaceous plant of the Barberry family (Epimedium alpinum), having leaves that are bitter and said to be sudorific.

• Bittersweet
  Sweet and then bitter or bitter and then sweet; esp. sweet with a bitter after taste; hence (Fig.), pleasant but painful.
• Haversack
  A bag for oats or oatmeal.
• 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.
• Bitterweed
  A species of Ambrosia (A. artemisiaefolia); Roman worm wood.
• Haversian
  Pertaining to, or discovered by, Clopton Havers, an English physician of the seventeenth century.
• Plant-eating
  Eating, or subsisting on, plants; as, a plant-eating beetle.
• Barberry
  A shrub of the genus Berberis, common along roadsides and in neglected fields. B. vulgaris is the species best known; its oblong red berries are made into a preserve or sauce, and have been deemed efficacious in fluxes and fevers. The bark dyes a
• Bitterwood
  A West Indian tree (Picraena excelsa) from the wood of which the bitter drug Jamaica quassia is obtained.
• Havildar
  In the British Indian armies, a noncommissioned officer of native soldiers, corresponding to a sergeant.
• Planter
  One who, or that which, plants or sows; as, a planterof corn; a machine planter.
• Bitterwort
  The yellow gentian (Gentiana lutea), which has a very bitter taste.
• Plantership
  The occupation or position of a planter, or the management of a plantation, as in the United States or the West Indies.
• Bitterbump
  the butterbump or bittern.
• Planticle
  A young plant, or plant in embryo.
• Bitterful
  Full of bitterness.

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