Word Meanings - PURPLEHEART - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A strong, durable, and elastic wood of a purplish color, obtained from several tropical American leguminous trees of the genus Copaifera (C. pubiflora, bracteata, and officinalis). Used for decorative veneering. See Copaiba.

• Coloration
  The act or art of coloring; the state of being colored.
• Elastically
  In an elastic manner; by an elastic power; with a spring.
• Severally
  Separately; distinctly; apart from others; individually.
• AMERICANPLAN
  In hotels, aplan upon which guests pay for both room and board by the day, week, or other convenient period; -- contrasted with European plan.
• Colorature
  Vocal music colored, as it were, by florid ornaments, runs, or rapid passages.
• Elasticity
  The quality of being elastic; the inherent property in bodies by which they recover their former figure or dimensions, after the removal of external pressure or altering force; springiness; tendency to rebound; as, the elasticity of caoutchouc; th
• Severalty
  A state of separation from the rest, or from all others; a holding by individual right.
• 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.
• Color-blind
  Affected with color blindness. See Color blindness, under Color, n.
• Elasticness
  The quality of being elastic; elasticity.
• COLORADOBEETLE
  A yellowish beetle (Doryphora decemlineata), with ten longitudinal, black, dorsal stripes. It has migrated eastwards from its original habitat in Colorado, and is very destructive to the potato plant; -- called also potato beetle and potato bug. See Pot
• Americanism
  Attachment to the United States.
• Colorific
  Capable of communicating color or tint to other bodies.
• Stronghand
  Violence; force; power.
• COLORADOGROUP
  A subdivision of the cretaceous formation of western North America, especially developed in Colorado and the upper Missouri region.
• Americanization
  The process of Americanizing.
• Colorimeter
  An instrument for measuring the depth of the color of anything, especially of a liquid, by comparison with a standard liquid.

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