Word Meanings - HOUSTONIA - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A genus of small rubiaceous herbs, having tetramerous salveform blue or white flower. There are about twenty species, natives of North America. Also, a plant of this genus.

• Whitetop
  Fiorin.
• Northwards
  Toward the north, or toward a point nearer to the north than to the east or west point.
• FLOWERGENTLE
  A species of amaranth (Amarantus melancholicus).
• Plantation
  The act or practice of planting, or setting in the earth for growth.
• WHITEELEPHANT
  Something requiring much care and expense and yielding little profit; any burdensome possession. [Slang]
• Smallish
  Somewhat small.
• WHITEPOT
  A kind of food made of milk or cream, eggs, sugar, bread, etc., baked in a pot. King.
• Therebiforn
  Before that time; beforehand.
• Therewhile
  At that time; at the same time.
• Floweret
  A small flower; a floret.
• Whiteboy
  A favorite.
• Havelock
  A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke.
• White-livered
  Having a pale look; feeble; hence, cowardly; pusillanimous; dastardly.
• Northeastward
  Alt. of Northeastwardly
• Northeastwardly
  Toward the northeast.
• Whitewall
  The spotted flycatcher; -- so called from the white color of the under parts.
• Northwardly
  Having a northern direction.
• FLOWERSTATE
  Florida; -- a nickname, alluding to sense of L. floridus, from florida flowery. See Florid.
• 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.
• WHITEEYE
  Any one of several species of small Old World singing of the genus Zosterops, as Zosterops palpebrosus of India, and Z. coerulescens of Australia. The eyes are encircled by a ring of white feathers, whence the name. Called also bush creeper, and white-e

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