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.

• 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.
• Planticle
  A young plant, or plant in embryo.
• Black-hearted
  Having a wicked, malignant disposition; morally bad.
• BLACKAVISED
  Dark-visaged; swart.
• 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
• Callosities
  of Callosity
• Dorsally
  On, or toward, the dorsum, or back; on the dorsal side of; dorsad.
• Blackballing
  of Blackball
• Originally
  In the original time, or in an original manner; primarily; from the beginning or origin; not by derivation, or imitation.

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