Word Meanings - COLORADOBEETLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A yellowish beetle (Doryphora decemlineata), with ten longitudinal, black, dorsal stripes. It has migrated eastwards from its original habitat in Colorado, and is very destructive to the potato plant; -- called also potato beetle and potato bug. See Potato beetle.

• Planticle
  A young plant, or plant in embryo.
• Black-hearted
  Having a wicked, malignant disposition; morally bad.
• BLACKAVISED
  Dark-visaged; swart.
• Black monk
  A Benedictine monk.
• BLACKMONK
  A Benedictine monk.
• Blackthorn
  A spreading thorny shrub or small tree (Prunus spinosa), with blackish bark, and bearing little black plums, which are called sloes; the sloe.
• Calligrapher
  One skilled in calligraphy; a good penman.
• Callose
  Furnished with protuberant or hardened spots.
• Dorsale
  Same as Dorsal, n.
• Blackballed
  of Blackball
• Originality
  The quality or state of being original.
• Blacken
  To make or render black.
• Blackener
  One who blackens.
• Plantigrada
  A subdivision of Carnivora having plantigrade feet. It includes the bears, raccoons, and allied species.
• Black hole
  A dungeon or dark cell in a prison; a military lock-up or guardroom; -- now commonly with allusion to the cell (the Black Hole) in a fort at Calcutta, into which 146 English prisoners were thrust by the nabob Suraja Dowla on the night of June 20,
• BLACKBIRDER
  A slave ship; a slaver. [Colloq.] F. T. Bullen.
• Blackmoor
  See Blackamoor.
• BLACKMOUTHED
  Using foul or scurrilous language; slanderous.
• Black vomit
  A copious vomiting of dark-colored matter; or the substance so discharged; -- one of the most fatal symptoms in yellow fever.
• Calligraphic
  Alt. of Calligraphical

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