Word Meanings - BIRTHROOT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An herbaceous plant (Trillium erectum), and its astringent rootstock, which is said to have medicinal properties.

• 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.
• Whichsoever
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one (of two or more) which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• Plant-eating
  Eating, or subsisting on, plants; as, a plant-eating beetle.
• PLANTCANE
  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.
• Astringent
  Drawing together the tissues; binding; contracting; -- opposed to laxative; as, astringent medicines; a butter and astringent taste; astringent fruit.
• PLANTEATING
  Eating, or subsisting on, plants; as, a plant-eating beetle.
• Astringently
  In an astringent manner.
• Plantership
  The occupation or position of a planter, or the management of a plantation, as in the United States or the West Indies.
• WHICHEVERWHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one (of two or more) which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• Herbaceous
  Of or pertaining to herbs; having the nature, texture, or characteristics, of an herb; as, herbaceous plants; an herbaceous stem.
• Planticle
  A young plant, or plant in embryo.
• Medicinal
  Having curative or palliative properties; used for the cure or alleviation of bodily disorders; as, medicinal tinctures, plants, or springs.
• Plantigrada
  A subdivision of Carnivora having plantigrade feet. It includes the bears, raccoons, and allied species.
• Medicinally
  In a medicinal manner.
• Plantigrade
  Walking on the sole of the foot; pertaining to the plantigrades.
• Plantless
  Without plants; barren of vegetation.

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