Word Meanings - DODDER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A plant of the genus Cuscuta. It is a leafless parasitical vine with yellowish threadlike stems. It attaches itself to some other plant, as to flax, goldenrod, etc., and decaying at the root, is nourished by the plant that supports it.

• Plantain
  A treelike perennial herb (Musa paradisiaca) of tropical regions, bearing immense leaves and large clusters of the fruits called plantains. See Musa.
• Yellowish
  Somewhat yellow; as, amber is of a yellowish color.
• Plantal
  Belonging to plants; as, plantal life.
• GOLDENROD
  A tall herb (Solidago Virga-aurea), bearing yellow flowers in a graceful elongated cluster. The name is common to all the species of the genus Solidago. Golden-rod tree (Bot.), a shrub (Bosea Yervamora), a native of the Canary Isles.
• Othergates
  In another manner.
• Otherguise
  Alt. of Otherguess
• Plantar
  Of or pertaining to the sole of the foot; as, the plantar arteries.
• OTHERGUISEOTHERGUESS
  Of another kind or sort; in another way. "Otherguess arguments." Berkeley.
• Otherguess
  Of another kind or sort; in another way.
• Plantation
  The act or practice of planting, or setting in the earth for growth.
• OTHERWHILEOTHERWHILES
  At another time, or other times; sometimes; [Archaic] Weighing otherwhiles ten pounds and more. Holland.
• Decaying
  of Decay
• Otherness
  The quality or state of being other or different; alterity; oppositeness.
• 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.
• PLANTCANE
  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.
• Otherways
  See Otherwise.
• Plant-eating
  Eating, or subsisting on, plants; as, a plant-eating beetle.

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