Word Meanings - TRITICIN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A carbohydrate isomeric with dextrin, obtained from quitch grass (Agropyrum, formerly Triticum, repens) as a white amorphous substance.

• Whiterump
  The American black-tailed godwit.
• Whitewing
  The chaffinch; -- so called from the white bands on the wing.
• WHITEHORSE
  A large mass of tough sinewy substance in the head of sperm whales, just above the upper jaw and extending in streaks into the junk above it. It resembles blubber, but contains no oil. Also, the part of the head in which it occurs.
• 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
• Whiteback
  The canvasback.
• Whiteflaw
  A whitlow.
• Whitewood
  The soft and easily-worked wood of the tulip tree (Liriodendron). It is much used in cabinetwork, carriage building, etc.
• WHITEHOT
  White with heat; heated to whiteness, or incandescence.
• Whitebait
  The young of several species of herrings, especially of the common herring, esteemed a great delicacy by epicures in England.
• White-foot
  A white mark on the foot of a horse, between the fetlock and the coffin.
• Whiteside
  The golden-eye.
• Whitewort
  Wild camomile.
• WHITELIMED
  Whitewashed or plastered with lime. "White-limed walls." Shak.
• Amorphous
  Having no determinate form; of irregular; shapeless.
• Whitebeam
  The common beam tree of England (Pyrus Aria); -- so called from the white, woolly under surface of the leaves.
• White friar
  A mendicant monk of the Carmelite order, so called from the white cloaks worn by the order. See Carmelite.
• Whitesmith
  One who works in tinned or galvanized iron, or white iron; a tinsmith.

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