Word Meanings - BLOODWORT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A plant, Rumex sanguineus, or bloody-veined dock. The name is applied also to bloodroot (Sanguinaria Canadensis), and to an extensive order of plants (Haemodoraceae), the roots of many species of which contain a red coloring matter useful in dyeing.

• Matterless
  Not being, or having, matter; as, matterless spirits.
• Plantage
  A word used once by Shakespeare to designate plants in general, or anything that is planted.
• Rootstock
  A perennial underground stem, producing leafly s/ems or flower stems from year to year; a rhizome.
• Whichever
  Alt. of Whichsoever
• Applique
  Ornamented with a pattern (which has been cut out of another color or stuff) applied or transferred to a foundation; as, applique lace; applique work.
• Coloradoite
  Mercury telluride, an iron-black metallic mineral, found in Colorado.
• Containant
  A container.
• Matter-of-fact
  Adhering to facts; not turning aside from absolute realities; not fanciful or imaginative; commonplace; dry.
• Plantain
  A treelike perennial herb (Musa paradisiaca) of tropical regions, bearing immense leaves and large clusters of the fruits called plantains. See Musa.
• Sanguinaria
  A genus of plants of the Poppy family.
• 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.
• Colorate
  Colored.
• Container
  One who, or that which, contains.
• Mattery
  Generating or containing pus; purulent.
• Plantal
  Belonging to plants; as, plantal life.
• Species
  Visible or sensible presentation; appearance; a sensible percept received by the imagination; an image.
• BLOODYFLUX
  The dysentery, a disease in which the flux or discharge from the bowels has a mixture of blood. Arbuthnot.
• Appliable
  Applicable; also, compliant.
• Bloodroot
  A plant (Sanguinaria Canadensis), with a red root and red sap, and bearing a pretty, white flower in early spring; -- called also puccoon, redroot, bloodwort, tetterwort, turmeric, and Indian paint. It has acrid emetic properties, and the rootstoc

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