Word Meanings - BUTTERWORT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A genus of low herbs (Pinguicula) having simple leaves which secrete from their glandular upper surface a viscid fluid, to which insects adhere, after which the margin infolds and the insects are digested by the plant. The species are found mostly in the North Temperate zone.

• Secrete-metory
  Causing secretion; -- said of nerves which go to glands and influence secretion.
• Digestibleness
  The quality of being digestible; digestibility.
• Foundation
  The act of founding, fixing, establishing, or beginning to erect.
• AFTERSENSATION
  A sensation or sense impression following the removal of a stimulus producing a primary sensation, and reproducing the primary sensation in positive, negative, or complementary form. The aftersensation may be continuous with the primary sensation or fol
• Havana
  Of or pertaining to Havana, the capital of the island of Cuba; as, an Havana cigar
• WHICHEVERWHICHSOEVER
  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.
• Leaves
  of Leaf
• Northeastern
  Of or pertaining to the northeast; northeasterly.
• Northward
  Toward the north; nearer to the north than to the east or west point.
• After-eatage
  Aftergrass.
• Plantal
  Belonging to plants; as, plantal life.
• After-sails
  The sails on the mizzenmast, or on the stays between the mainmast and mizzenmast.
• Aftershaft
  The hypoptilum.
• Simple
  Single; not complex; not infolded or entangled; uncombined; not compounded; not blended with something else; not complicated; as, a simple substance; a simple idea; a simple sound; a simple machine; a simple problem; simple tasks.
• Digestion
  The act or process of digesting; reduction to order; classification; thoughtful consideration.
• Uppermost
  Highest in place, position, rank, power, or the like; upmost; supreme.
• Foundationer
  One who derives support from the funds or foundation of a college or school.
• AFTERWARDSAFTERWARD
  At a later or succeeding time.
• Havanese
  Of or pertaining to Havana, in Cuba.

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