Word Meanings - CLEISTOGAMICCLEISTOGAMOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Having, beside the usual flowers, other minute, closed flowers, without petals or with minute petals; -- said of certain species of plants which possess flowers of two or more kinds, the closed ones being so constituted as to insure self-fertilization. Darwin.

• Beater
  One who, or that which, beats.
• Bell jar
  A glass vessel, varying in size, open at the bottom and closed at the top like a bell, and having a knob or handle at the top for lifting it. It is used for a great variety of purposes; as, with the air pump, and for holding gases, also for keepin
• Bewondered
  of Bewonder
• Bedim
  To make dim; to obscure or darken.
• Beneficently
  In a beneficent manner; with beneficence.
• BEADSMANBEDESMAN
  A poor man, supported in a beadhouse, and required to pray for the soul of its founder; an almsman. Whereby ye shall bind me to be your poor beadsman for ever unto Almighty God. Fuller.
• Befriended
  of Befriend
• Berm
  Alt. of Berme
• CLOSETONGUED
  Closemouthed; silent. "Close-tongued treason." Shak.
• Bel-accoyle
  A kind or favorable reception or salutation.
• Bespitting
  of Bespit
• Bethel
  A place of worship; a hallowed spot.
• Beau ideal
  A conception or image of consummate beauty, moral or physical, formed in the mind, free from all the deformities, defects, and blemishes seen in actual existence; an ideal or faultless standard or model.
• Bellwort
  A genus of plants (Uvularia) with yellowish bell-shaped flowers.
• Bez-antler
  The second branch of a stag's horn.
• Bedquilt
  A quilt for a bed; a coverlet.
• Benevolence
  The disposition to do good; good will; charitableness; love of mankind, accompanied with a desire to promote their happiness.
• BEAUFORTSSCALE
  A scale of wind force devised by Sir F. Beaufort, R. N., in 1805, in which the force is indicated by numbers from 0 to 12. The full scale is as follows: -- 0, calm; 1, light air; 2, light breeze; 3, gentle breeze; 4, moderate breeze; 5, fresh breeze; 6,
• Begat
  of Beget
• Berserk
  Alt. of Berserker

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