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.
- 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. - 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. - 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. - 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.
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