Word Meanings - BUTTERBUR - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A broad-leaved plant (Petasites vulgaris) of the Composite family, said to have been used in England for wrapping up pats of butter.

• Butter-scotch
  A kind of candy, mainly composed of sugar and butter.
• Leavenous
  Containing leaven.
• Plant-eating
  Eating, or subsisting on, plants; as, a plant-eating beetle.
• BROADCHURCH
  A portion of the Church of England, consisting of persons who claim to hold a position, in respect to doctrine and fellowship, intermediate between the High Church party and the Low Church, or evangelical, party. The term has been applied to otherbodies
• Broadleaf
  A tree (Terminalia latifolia) of Jamaica, the wood of which is used for boards, scantling, shingles, etc; -- sometimes called the almond tree, from the shape of its fruit.
• Buttering
  of Butter
• Butterball
  The buffel duck.
• Butterweed
  An annual composite plant of the Mississippi valley (Senecio lobatus).
• Planter
  One who, or that which, plants or sows; as, a planterof corn; a machine planter.
• BROADGAUGE
  A wider distance between the rails than the "standard" gauge of four feet eight inches and a half. See Gauge.
• Broad-leaved
  Alt. of Broad-leafed
• Butterbird
  The rice bunting or bobolink; -- so called in the island of Jamaica.
• Butterweight
  Over weight.
• Leave-taking
  Taking of leave; parting compliments.
• Plantership
  The occupation or position of a planter, or the management of a plantation, as in the United States or the West Indies.
• BROADHORNED
  Having horns spreading widely.
• Broad-leafed
  Having broad, or relatively broad, leaves.
• Butterbump
  The European bittern.

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