Word Meanings - QUERCITRIN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A glucoside extracted from the bark of the oak (Quercus) as a bitter citron-yellow crystalline substance, used as a pigment and called quercitron.

• Callosum
  The great band commissural fibers which unites the two cerebral hemispheres. See corpus callosum, under Carpus.
• Extractor
  One who, or that which, extracts
• Yellowbill
  The American scoter.
• Yellowtail
  Any one of several species of marine carangoid fishes of the genus Seriola; especially, the large California species (S. dorsalis) which sometimes weighs thirty or forty pounds, and is highly esteemed as a food fish; -- called also cavasina, and w
• Bitterweed
  A species of Ambrosia (A. artemisiaefolia); Roman worm wood.
• Calligraphist
  A calligrapher
• Calligraphy
  Fair or elegant penmanship.
• Glucoside
  One of a large series of amorphous or crystalline substances, occurring very widely distributed in plants, rarely in animals, and regarded as influental agents in the formation and disposition of the sugars. They are frequently of a bitter taste,
• Yellowbird
  The American goldfinch, or thistle bird. See Goldfinch.
• Yellowthroat
  Any one of several species of American ground warblers of the genus Geothlypis, esp. the Maryland yellowthroat (G. trichas), which is a very common species.
• Bitterwood
  A West Indian tree (Picraena excelsa) from the wood of which the bitter drug Jamaica quassia is obtained.
• Calliope
  The Muse that presides over eloquence and heroic poetry; mother of Orpheus, and chief of the nine Muses.
• Callous
  Hardened; indurated.
• Pigment
  Any material from which a dye, a paint, or the like, may be prepared; particularly, the refined and purified coloring matter ready for mixing with an appropriate vehicle.
• Yellow-covered
  Covered or bound in yellow paper.
• Yellowtop
  A kind of grass, perhaps a species of Agrostis.
• Bitterwort
  The yellow gentian (Gentiana lutea), which has a very bitter taste.
• Calliopsis
  A popular name given to a few species of the genus Coreopsis, especially to C. tinctoria of Arkansas.

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