Word Meanings - SCROPHULARIACEOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of or pertaining to a very large natural order of gamopetalous plants (Scrophulariaceae, or Scrophularineae), usually having irregular didynamous flowers and a two-celled pod. The order includes the mullein, foxglove, snapdragon, figwort, painted cup, yellow rattle, and some exotic trees, as the Paulownia.

• Rattle-brained
  Giddy; rattle-headed.
• Yellowammer
  See Yellow-hammer.
• Yellowshins
  See Yellolegs.
• Cellulated
  Cellular.
• YELLOWCOVERED
  Covered or bound in yellow paper. Yellow-covered literature, cheap sensational novels and trashy magazines; -- formerly so called from the usual color of their covers. [Colloq. U. S.] Bartlett.
• Irregularity
  The state or quality of being irregular; that which is irregular.
• Naturality
  Nature; naturalness.
• Painted
  of Paint
• Rattlehead
  An empty, noisy talker.
• 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
• Cellule
  A small cell.
• YELLOWEYED
  Having yellow eyes. Yellow-eyed grass (Bot.), any plant of the genus Xyris.
• Haveless
  Having little or nothing.
• Irregularly
  In an irregular manner.
• Naturalization
  The act or process of naturalizing, esp. of investing an alien with the rights and privileges of a native or citizen; also, the state of being naturalized.
• Painting
  of Paint
• Rattle-headed
  Noisy; giddy; unsteady.
• Yellowbird
  The American goldfinch, or thistle bird. See Goldfinch.

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