Word Meanings - SAVANNA - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A tract of level land covered with the vegetable growth usually found in a damp soil and warm climate, -- as grass or reeds, -- but destitute of trees.

• Tractrix
  A curve such that the part of the tangent between the point of tangency and a given straight line is constant; -- so called because it was conceived as described by the motion of one end of a tangent line as the other end was drawn along the given
• Covertly
  Secretly; in private; insidiously.
• Foundershaft
  The first shaft sunk.
• Grassplot
  A plot or space covered with grass; a lawn.
• Tractability
  The quality or state of being tractable or docile; docility; tractableness.
• Vegetable
  Of or pertaining to plants; having the nature of, or produced by, plants; as, a vegetable nature; vegetable growths, juices, etc.
• Covertness
  Secrecy; privacy.
• Founderies
  of Foundery
• Grass tree
  An Australian plant of the genus Xanthorrhoea, having a thick trunk crowned with a dense tuft of pendulous, grasslike leaves, from the center of which arises a long stem, bearing at its summit a dense flower spike looking somewhat like a large cat
• Tractable
  Capable of being easily led, taught, or managed; docile; manageable; governable; as, tractable children; a tractable learner.
• COVERAGE
  The aggregate of risks covered by the terms of a contract of insurance.
• Coverture
  Covering; shelter; defense; hiding.
• Foundery
  Same as Foundry.
• Tractarian
  One of the writers of the Oxford tracts, called "Tracts for the Times," issued during the period 1833-1841, in which series of papers the sacramental system and authority of the Church, and the value of tradition, were brought into prominence. Als
• COVERCROP
  A catch crop planted, esp. in orchards. as a protection to the soil in winter, as well as for the benefit of the soil when plowed under in spring.
• Destitute
  Forsaken; not having in possession (something necessary, or desirable); deficient; lacking; devoid; -- often followed by of.
• Foundling
  A deserted or exposed infant; a child found without a parent or owner.

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