Word Meanings - LIVERWORT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A ranunculaceous plant (Anemone Hepatica) with pretty white or bluish flowers and a three-lobed leaf; -- called also squirrel cups.

• Whiteness
  The quality or state of being white; white color, or freedom from darkness or obscurity on the surface.
• Lobately
  As a lobe; so as to make a lobe; in a lobate manner.
• White-water
  A dangerous disease of sheep.
• Lobeline
  A poisonous narcotic alkaloid extracted from the leaves of Indian tobacco (Lobelia inflata) as a yellow oil, having a tobaccolike taste and odor.
• THREECORNERED
  Having three prominent longitudinal angles; as, a three- cornered stem.
• Planting
  of Plant
• THREETORQUESYSTEMOFCONTROL
  Any system of rudders by which the pilot can exert a turning moment about each of the three rectangular axes of an aëroplane or airship.
• Plantocracy
  Government by planters; planters, collectively.
• WHITELIMED
  Whitewashed or plastered with lime. "White-limed walls." Shak.
• Three-leaved
  Producing three leaves; as, three-leaved nightshade.
• Calligraphical
  Of or pertaining to calligraphy.
• White-face
  A white mark in the forehead of a horse, descending almost to the nose; -- called also white-blaze.
• Callosity
  A hard or thickened spot or protuberance; a hardening and thickening of the skin or bark of a part, eps. as a result of continued pressure or friction.
• Callosum
  The great band commissural fibers which unites the two cerebral hemispheres. See corpus callosum, under Carpus.
• White-pot
  A kind of food made of milk or cream, eggs, sugar, bread, etc., baked in a pot.
• Lobbish
  Like a lob; consisting of lobs.
• Whiteweed
  A perennial composite herb (Chrysanthemum Leucanthemum) with conspicuous white rays and a yellow disk, a common weed in grass lands and pastures; -- called also oxeye daisy.
• Lobiped
  Having lobate toes, as a coot.
• THREEDECKER
  A vessel of war carrying guns on three decks.

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