Word Meanings - LOBELIA - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A genus of plants, including a great number of species. Lobelia inflata, or Indian tobacco, is an annual plant of North America, whose leaves contain a poisonous white viscid juice, of an acrid taste. It has often been used in medicine as an emetic, expectorant, etc. L. cardinalis is the cardinal flower, remarkable for the deep and vivid red color of its flowers.

• Northwardly
  Having a northern direction.
• GREATGRANDSON
  A son of one's grandson or granddaughter.
• Oftenness
  Frequency.
• WHITEFRIAR
  A mendicant monk of the Carmelite order, so called from the white cloaks worn by the order. See Carmelite.
• Cardinalate
  The office, rank, or dignity of a cardinal.
• Plantership
  The occupation or position of a planter, or the management of a plantation, as in the United States or the West Indies.
• Colorist
  One who colors; an artist who excels in the use of colors; one to whom coloring is of prime importance.
• Tobacco
  An American plant (Nicotiana Tabacum) of the Nightshade family, much used for smoking and chewing, and as snuff. As a medicine, it is narcotic, emetic, and cathartic. Tobacco has a strong, peculiar smell, and an acrid taste.
• Flowered
  of Flower
• Whiteblow
  Same as Whitlow grass, under Whitlow.
• White-limed
  Whitewashed or plastered with lime.
• Includible
  Capable of being included.
• Whitethroat
  Any one of several species of Old World warblers, esp. the common European species (Sylvia cinerea), called also strawsmear, nettlebird, muff, and whitecap, the garden whitethroat, or golden warbler (S. hortensis), and the lesser whitethroat (S. c
• Northeastwardly
  Toward the northeast.
• AMERICANPROTECTIVEASSOCIATION
  A secret organization in the United States, formed in Iowa in 1887, ostensibly for the protection of American institutions by keeping Roman Catholics out of public office. Abbrev. commonly to A.
• Northwest
  The point in the horizon between the north and west, and equally distant from each; the northwest part or region.
• GREATHEARTEDNESS
  The quality of being greathearted; high-mindedness; magnanimity.
• Oftensith
  Frequently; often.
• WHITEFRONTED
  Having a white front; as, the white-fronted lemur. White- fronted goose (Zoöl.), the white brant, or snow goose. See Snow goose, under Snow.

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