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.

• Betide
  To happen to; to befall; to come to ; as, woe betide the wanderer.
• Belletristic
  Alt. of Belletristical
• Beccabunga
  See Brooklime.
• Closed
  of Close
• Benedictional
  A book of benedictions.
• Beduck
  To duck; to put the head under water; to immerse.
• BEDELBEDELL
  ,n.Same as Beadle.
• Bergamot
  A tree of the Orange family (Citrus bergamia), having a roundish or pear-shaped fruit, from the rind of which an essential oil of delicious odor is extracted, much prized as a perfume. Also, the fruit.
• Beglerbeg
  The governor of a province of the Ottoman empire, next in dignity to the grand vizier.
• Bespatter
  To soil by spattering; to sprinkle, esp. with dirty water, mud, or anything which will leave foul spots or stains.
• Bedeswoman
  Fem. of Beadsman.
• Betrayed
  of Betray
• 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
• Beclap
  To catch; to grasp; to insnare.
• Close-stool
  A utensil to hold a chamber vessel, for the use of the sick and infirm. It is usually in the form of a box, with a seat and tight cover.
• Beneficently
  In a beneficent manner; with beneficence.
• Beechnut
  The nut of the beech tree.
• BEGGARSLICE
  The prickly fruit or seed of certain plants (as some species of Echinospermum and Cynoglossum) which cling to the clothing of those who brush by them.
• Berm
  Alt. of Berme
• Begrudging
  of Begrudge

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