Word Meanings - YELLOWWORT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A European yellow-flowered, gentianaceous (Chlora perfoliata). The whole plant is intensely bitter, and is sometimes used as a tonic, and also in dyeing yellow.

• Wholeness
  The quality or state of being whole, entire, or sound; entireness; totality; completeness.
• Yellowish
  Somewhat yellow; as, amber is of a yellowish color.
• FLOWERGENTLE
  A species of amaranth (Amarantus melancholicus).
• Bitterweed
  A species of Ambrosia (A. artemisiaefolia); Roman worm wood.
• Flowerpot
  A vessel, commonly or earthenware, for earth in which plants are grown.
• Planter
  One who, or that which, plants or sows; as, a planterof corn; a machine planter.
• Wholesale
  Sale of goods by the piece or large quantity, as distinguished from retail.
• Yellowlegs
  Any one of several species of long-legged sandpipers of the genus Totanus, in which the legs are bright yellow; -- called also stone snipe, tattler, telltale, yellowshanks; and yellowshins. See Tattler, 2.
• FLOWERSTATE
  Florida; -- a nickname, alluding to sense of L. floridus, from florida flowery. See Florid.
• Bitterwood
  A West Indian tree (Picraena excelsa) from the wood of which the bitter drug Jamaica quassia is obtained.
• European
  Of or pertaining to Europe, or to its inhabitants.
• Plantership
  The occupation or position of a planter, or the management of a plantation, as in the United States or the West Indies.
• Wholesome
  Tending to promote health; favoring health; salubrious; salutary.
• Yellowness
  The quality or state of being yellow; as, the yellowness of an orange.
• FLOWERYKIRTLED
  Dressed with garlands of flowers. [Poetic & Rare] Milton.
• Bitterwort
  The yellow gentian (Gentiana lutea), which has a very bitter taste.
• Europeanize
  To cause to become like the Europeans in manners or character; to habituate or accustom to European usages.

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