Word Meanings - LOBELIN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A yellowish green resin from Lobelia, used as an emetic and diaphoretic.

• Greenfinch
  A European finch (Ligurinus chloris); -- called also green bird, green linnet, green grosbeak, green olf, greeny, and peasweep.
• Greenroom
  The retiring room of actors and actresses in a theater.
• Resiniform
  Having the form of resin.
• Greenfish
  See Bluefish, and Pollock.
• Greensand
  A variety of sandstone, usually imperfectly consolidated, consisting largely of glauconite, a silicate of iron and potash of a green color, mixed with sand and a trace of phosphate of lime.
• Resino-electric
  Containing or exhibiting resinous electricity.
• Diaphoretic
  Alt. of Diaphoretical
• Greengage
  A kind of plum of medium size, roundish shape, greenish flesh, and delicious flavor. It is called in France Reine Claude, after the queen of Francis I. See Gage.
• Greenshank
  A European sandpiper or snipe (Totanus canescens); -- called also greater plover.
• Diaphoretical
  Having the power to increase perspiration.
• Greengill
  An oyster which has the gills tinged with a green pigment, said to be due to an abnormal condition of the blood.
• Green-stall
  A stall at which greens and fresh vegetables are exposed for sale.
• Greengrocer
  A retailer of vegetables or fruits in their fresh or green state.
• Greenstone
  A name formerly applied rather loosely to certain dark-colored igneous rocks, including diorite, diabase, etc.
• Resinously
  By means, or in the manner, of resin.
• Greenhead
  The mallard.

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