Word Meanings - BREADROOT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The root of a leguminous plant (Psoralea esculenta), found near the Rocky Mountains. It is usually oval in form, and abounds in farinaceous matter, affording sweet and palatable food.

• Foundering
  of Founder
• Palatable
  Agreeable to the palate or taste; savory; hence, acceptable; pleasing; as, palatable food; palatable advice.
• Plantigrada
  A subdivision of Carnivora having plantigrade feet. It includes the bears, raccoons, and allied species.
• Sweethearting
  Making love.
• 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.
• Founderous
  Difficult to travel; likely to trip one up; as, a founderous road.
• Palatableness
  The quality or state of being agreeable to the taste; relish; acceptableness.
• Plantigrade
  Walking on the sole of the foot; pertaining to the plantigrades.
• Sweeting
  A sweet apple.
• PLANTEATING
  Eating, or subsisting on, plants; as, a plant-eating beetle.
• Afforded
  of Afford
• Foundershaft
  The first shaft sunk.
• Plantless
  Without plants; barren of vegetation.
• Sweetish
  Somewhat sweet.
• SWEETBREASTED
  Having a sweet, musical voice, as the nightingale. Cf. Breast, n., 6. [Obs.]
• Affording
  of Afford
• Founderies
  of Foundery
• Plantlet
  A little plant.

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