Word Meanings - COCHINEALFIG - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A plant of Central and Southern Anerica, of the Cactus familly, extensively cultivated for the sake of the cochineal insect, which lives on it.

• Cultivatable
  Cultivable.
• Insectivora
  An order of mammals which feed principally upon insects.
• Plant-cane
  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.
• Southernwood
  A shrubby species of wormwood (Artemisia Abrotanum) having aromatic foliage. It is sometimes used in making beer.
• Cultivated
  of Cultivate
• Insectivores
  of Insectivore
• Plant-eating
  Eating, or subsisting on, plants; as, a plant-eating beetle.
• Cultivating
  of Cultivate
• Insectivore
  One of the Insectivora.
• Whichever
  Alt. of Whichsoever
• Cultivate
  To bestow attention, care, and labor upon, with a view to valuable returns; to till; to fertilize; as, to cultivate soil.
• Insectivorous
  Feeding or subsisting on insects; carnivorous.
• Plantership
  The occupation or position of a planter, or the management of a plantation, as in the United States or the West Indies.
• Whichsoever
  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.
• Cultivation
  The art or act of cultivating; improvement for agricultural purposes or by agricultural processes; tillage; production by tillage.

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