Word Meanings - PALMACHRISTI - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A plant (Ricinus communis) with ornamental peltate and palmately cleft foliage, growing as a woody perennial in the tropics, and cultivated as an herbaceous annual in temperate regions; -- called also castor-oil plant. [Sometimes corrupted into palmcrist.]

• Corruptless
  Not susceptible of corruption or decay; incorruptible.
• Growan
  A decomposed granite, forming a mass of gravel, as in tin lodes in Cornwall.
• Peltate
  Alt. of Peltated
• Plantership
  The occupation or position of a planter, or the management of a plantation, as in the United States or the West Indies.
• CASTORCASTORITE
  A variety of the mineral called petalite, from Elba.
• Calligraphic
  Alt. of Calligraphical
• Callosities
  of Callosity
• Cleft-footed
  Having a cloven foot.
• Cleftgraft
  To ingraft by cleaving the stock and inserting a scion.
• Corruptly
  In a corrupt manner; by means of corruption or corrupting influences; wrongfully.
• Grower
  One who grows or produces; as, a grower of corn; also, that which grows or increases; as, a vine may be a rank or a slow grower.
• Peltated
  Shield-shaped; scutiform; (Bot.) having the stem or support attached to the lower surface, instead of at the base or margin; -- said of a leaf or other organ.
• Planticle
  A young plant, or plant in embryo.
• CASTORANDPOLLUX
  See Saint Elmo's fire, under Saint.
• Calligraphical
  Of or pertaining to calligraphy.
• 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.
• Communism
  A scheme of equalizing the social conditions of life; specifically, a scheme which contemplates the abolition of inequalities in the possession of property, as by distributing all wealth equally to all, or by holding all wealth in common for the e
• Corruptness
  The quality of being corrupt.
• Growled
  of Growl
• Perennial
  ing or continuing through the year; as, perennial fountains.

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