Word Meanings - UMBELLIFERONE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A tasteless white crystalline substance, C9H6O3, found in the bark of a certain plant (Daphne Mezereum), and also obtained by the distillation of certain gums from the Umbelliferae, as galbanum, asafetida, etc. It is analogous to coumarin. Called also hydroxy-coumarin.

• WHITEPOT
  A kind of food made of milk or cream, eggs, sugar, bread, etc., baked in a pot. King.
• Foundries
  of Foundry
• Plantage
  A word used once by Shakespeare to designate plants in general, or anything that is planted.
• Substance
  That which underlies all outward manifestations; substratum; the permanent subject or cause of phenomena, whether material or spiritual; that in which properties inhere; that which is real, in distinction from that which is apparent; the abiding p
• Whitecoat
  The skin of a newborn seal; also, the seal itself.
• Whitening
  of Whiten
• Calligraphical
  Of or pertaining to calligraphy.
• Whitewashed
  of Whitewash
• Callosity
  A hard or thickened spot or protuberance; a hardening and thickening of the skin or bark of a part, eps. as a result of continued pressure or friction.
• WHITEELEPHANT
  Something requiring much care and expense and yielding little profit; any burdensome possession. [Slang]
• Distillation
  The act of falling in drops, or the act of pouring out in drops.
• WHITESLAVE
  A woman held in involuntary confinement for purposes of prostitution; loosely, any woman forced into unwilling prostitution.
• Foundry
  The act, process, or art of casting metals.
• Plantain
  A treelike perennial herb (Musa paradisiaca) of tropical regions, bearing immense leaves and large clusters of the fruits called plantains. See Musa.
• Substanceless
  Having no substance; unsubstantial.
• White-ear
  The wheatear.
• Calligraphist
  A calligrapher
• Whitewashing
  of Whitewash

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