Word Meanings - BRAZILIN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A substance contained in both Brazil wood and Sapan wood, from which it is extracted as a yellow crystalline substance which is white when pure. It is colored intensely red by alkalies.

• Yellowfish
  A rock trout (Pleurogrammus monopterygius) found on the coast of Alaska; -- called also striped fish, and Atka mackerel.
• BRAZILNUT
  An oily, three-sided nut, the seed of the Bertholletia excelsa; the cream nut. Note: From eighteen to twenty-four of the seed or "nuts" grow in a hard and nearly globular shell.
• Coloration
  The act or art of coloring; the state of being colored.
• WHITEFRIAR
  A mendicant monk of the Carmelite order, so called from the white cloaks worn by the order. See Carmelite.
• Containment
  That which is contained; the extent; the substance.
• YELLOWBOOK
  In France, an official government publication bound in yellow covers.
• Whichever
  Alt. of Whichsoever
• White-ear
  The wheatear.
• Whitewashing
  of Whitewash
• Yellow-golds
  A certain plant, probably the yellow oxeye.
• COLORADOBEETLE
  A yellowish beetle (Doryphora decemlineata), with ten longitudinal, black, dorsal stripes. It has migrated eastwards from its original habitat in Colorado, and is very destructive to the potato plant; -- called also potato beetle and potato bug. See Pot
• Colorature
  Vocal music colored, as it were, by florid ornaments, runs, or rapid passages.
• WHITEFRONTED
  Having a white front; as, the white-fronted lemur. White- fronted goose (Zoöl.), the white brant, or snow goose. See Snow goose, under Snow.
• Crystalline
  Consisting, or made, of crystal.
• YELLOWCOVERED
  Covered or bound in yellow paper. Yellow-covered literature, cheap sensational novels and trashy magazines; -- formerly so called from the usual color of their covers. [Colloq. U. S.] Bartlett.
• 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.
• White-eye
  Any one of several species of small Old World singing of the genus Zosterops, as Zosterops palpebrosus of India, and Z. c/rulescens of Australia. The eyes are encircled by a ring of white feathers, whence the name. Called also bush creeper, and wh
• Whitener
  One who, or that which, whitens; a bleacher; a blancher; a whitewasher.
• Whitewasher
  One who whitewashes.

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