Word Meanings - BLOODFLOWER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A genus of bulbous plants, natives of Southern Africa, named Haemanthus, of the Amaryllis family. The juice of H. toxicarius is used by the Hottentots to poison their arrows.

• Namby-pamby
  Talk or writing which is weakly sentimental or affectedly pretty.
• Poisonsome
  Poisonous.[Obs.] Holland.
• Southern
  Of or pertaining to the south; situated in, or proceeding from, the south; situated or proceeding toward the south.
• African
  Of or pertaining to Africa.
• Southerner
  An inhabitant or native of the south, esp. of the Southern States of North America; opposed to Northerner.
• Africander
  One born in Africa, the offspring of a white father and a "colored" mother. Also, and now commonly in Southern Africa, a native born of European settlers.
• Southernliness
  Southerliness.
• Africanism
  A word, phrase, idiom, or custom peculiar to Africa or Africans.
• Nameless
  Without a name; not having been given a name; as, a nameless star.
• Southernly
  Somewhat southern.
• Africanize
  To place under the domination of Africans or negroes.
• Namelessly
  In a nameless manner.
• Southernmost
  Farthest south.
• Amaryllis
  A pastoral sweetheart.
• Southernwood
  A shrubby species of wormwood (Artemisia Abrotanum) having aromatic foliage. It is sometimes used in making beer.
• Bulbous
  Having or containing bulbs, or a bulb; growing from bulbs; bulblike in shape or structure.

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