Word Meanings - PUTTYROOT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An American orchidaceous plant (Aplectrum hyemale) which flowers in early summer. Its slender naked rootstock produces each year a solid corm, filled with exceedingly glutinous matter, which sends up later a single large oval evergreen plaited leaf. Called also Adam-and-Eve.

• Plant-cane
  A stalk or shoot of sugar cane of the first growth from the cutting. The growth of the second and following years is of inferior quality, and is called rattoon.
• Single-foot
  An irregular gait of a horse; -- called also single-footed pace. See Single, v. i.
• Callid
  Characterized by cunning or shrewdness; crafty.
• Solidate
  To make solid or firm.
• Callithumpian
  Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a callithump.
• Summered
  of Summer
• Filled
  of Fill
• 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.
• Glutinousness
  The quality of being glutinous.
• SINGLEHEARTED
  Having an honest heart; free from duplicity. -- Sin"gle-heart"ed*ly, adv.
• Lateran
  The church and palace of St. John Lateran, the church being the cathedral church of Rome, and the highest in rank of all churches in the Catholic world.
• Plant-eating
  Eating, or subsisting on, plants; as, a plant-eating beetle.
• Single-handed
  Having but one hand, or one workman; also, alone; unassisted.
• Callidity
  Acuteness of discernment; cunningness; shrewdness.
• Solidifiable
  Capable of being solidified.
• Callosan
  Of the callosum.
• Summering
  of Summer
• Filling
  of Fill

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