Word Meanings - BEBIRINE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An alkaloid got from the bark of the bebeeru, or green heart of Guiana (Nectandra Rodioei). It is a tonic, antiperiodic, and febrifuge, and is used in medicine as a substitute for quinine.

• Heartwood
  The hard, central part of the trunk of a tree, consisting of the old and matured wood, and usually differing in color from the outer layers. It is technically known as duramen, and distinguished from the softer sapwood or alburnum.
• GREENLEEK
  An Australian parrakeet (Polytelis Barrabandi); -- called also the scarlet-breasted parrot.
• Greenfinch
  A European finch (Ligurinus chloris); -- called also green bird, green linnet, green grosbeak, green olf, greeny, and peasweep.
• Greenroom
  The retiring room of actors and actresses in a theater.
• Heartburning
  Causing discontent.
• Heartpea
  Same as Heartseed.
• Heart-wounded
  Wounded to the heart with love or grief.
• GREENSTALL
  A stall at which greens and fresh vegetables are exposed for sale.
• Greenfish
  See Bluefish, and Pollock.
• Greensand
  A variety of sandstone, usually imperfectly consolidated, consisting largely of glauconite, a silicate of iron and potash of a green color, mixed with sand and a trace of phosphate of lime.
• Heartdear
  Sincerely beloved.
• Heartquake
  Trembling of the heart; trepidation; fear.
• HEARTEATING
  Preying on the heart.
• Alkaloid
  Alt. of Alkaloidal
• Greengage
  A kind of plum of medium size, roundish shape, greenish flesh, and delicious flavor. It is called in France Reine Claude, after the queen of Francis I. See Gage.
• Greenshank
  A European sandpiper or snipe (Totanus canescens); -- called also greater plover.
• Heartdeep
  Rooted in the heart.
• Heartrending
  Causing intense grief; overpowering with anguish; very distressing.
• Hearties
  of Hearty

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