Botanical (a.) Of or pertaining to botany |
Elecampane (n.) A large, coarse herb (Inula Helenium), with composite yellow flowers. The root, which has a pungent taste, is used as a tonic, and was formerly of much repute as a stomachic. |
Elecampane (n.) A sweetmeat made from the root of the plant. |
Genus (n.) A class of objects divided into several subordinate species |
Genus (n.) An assemblage of species, having so many fundamental points of structure in common, that in the judgment of competent scientists, they may receive a common substantive name. A genus is not necessarily the lowest definable group of species, for it may often be divided into several subgenera. In proportion as its definition is exact, it is natural genus |
Heal (v. t.) To cover, as a roof, with tiles, slate, lead, or the like. |
Heal (v. t.) To make hale, sound, or whole |
Heal (v. t.) To remove or subdue |
Heal (v. t.) To restore to original purity or integrity. |
Heal (v. t.) To reconcile, as a breach or difference |
Heal (v. i.) To grow sound |
Heal (v. t.) Health. |
Horse (n.) A hoofed quadruped of the genus Equus |
Horse (n.) The male of the genus horse, in distinction from the female or male |
Horse (n.) Mounted soldiery |
Horse (n.) A frame with legs, used to support something |
Horse (n.) A frame of timber, shaped like a horse, on which soldiers were made to ride for punishment. |
Horse (n.) Anything, actual or figurative, on which one rides as on a horse |
Horse (n.) A mass of earthy matter, or rock of the same character as the wall rock, occurring in the course of a vein, as of coal or ore |
Horse (n.) See Footrope, a. |
Horse (a.) A breastband for a leadsman. |
Horse (a.) An iron bar for a sheet traveler to slide upon. |
Horse (a.) A jackstay. |
Horse (v. t.) To provide with a horse, or with horses |
Horse (v. t.) To sit astride of |
Horse (v. t.) To cover, as a mare |
Horse (v. t.) To take or carry on the back |
Horse (v. t.) To place on the back of another, or on a wooden horse, etc., to be flogged |
Horse (v. i.) To get on horseback. |
Horse-chestnut (n.) The large nutlike seed of a species of Aesculus (Ae. Hippocastanum), formerly ground, and fed to horses, whence the name. |
Horse-chestnut (n.) The tree itself, which was brought from Constantinople in the beginning of the sixteenth century, and is now common in the temperate zones of both hemispheres. The native American species are called buckeyes. |
Horse-drench (n.) A dose of physic for a horse. |
Horse-drench (n.) The appliance by which the dose is administred. |
Horse Guards () A body of cavalry so called |
Horse-jockey (n.) A professional rider and trainer of race horses. |
Horse-jockey (n.) A trainer and dealer in horses. |
Horse-leech (n.) A large blood-sucking leech (Haemopsis vorax), of Europe and Northern Africa. It attacks the lips and mouths of horses. |
Horse-leech (n.) A farrier |
Horse-leechery (n.) The business of a farrier |
Horse-litter (n.) A carriage hung on poles, and borne by and between two horses. |
Horse power () The power which a horse exerts. |
Horse power () A unit of power, used in stating the power required to drive machinery, and in estimating the capabilities of animals or steam engines and other prime movers for doing work. It is the power required for the performance of work at the rate of 33,000 English units of work per minute |
Horse power () A machine worked by a horse, for driving other machinery |
Horse-radish (n.) A plant of the genus Nasturtium (N. Armoracia), allied to scurvy grass, having a root of a pungent taste, much used, when grated, as a condiment and in medicine. |
One-horse (a.) Drawn by one horse |
One-horse (a.) Second-rate |
Rear-horse (n.) A mantis. |
Rocking-horse (n.) The figure of a horse, mounted upon rockers, for children to ride. |
Sea horse () A fabulous creature, half horse and half fish, represented in classic mythology as driven by sea dogs or ridden by the Nereids. It is also depicted in heraldry. See Hippocampus. |
Sea horse () The walrus. |
horse racing | the sport of racing horses |
phytotherapy herbal therapy botanical medicine | the use of plants or plant extracts for medicinal purposes (especially plants that are not part of the normal diet) |
horse breeding | breeding horses |
horse trade horse trading | the swapping of horses (accompanied by much bargaining) |
form genus | an artificial taxonomic category established on the basis of morphological resemblance for organisms of obscure true relationships especially fossil forms |
Heliobacter genus Heliobacter | a genus of helical or curved or straight aerobic bacteria with rounded ends and multiple flagella, found in the gastric mucosa of primates (including humans) |
bacteria genus | a genus of bacteria |
Aerobacter genus Aerobacter | aerobic bacteria widely distributed in nature |
Rhizobium genus Rhizobium | the type genus of Rhizobiaceae, usually occur in the root nodules of legumes, can fix atmospheric oxygen |
Agrobacterium genus Agrobacterium | small motile bacterial rods that can reduce nitrates and cause galls on plant stems |
genus Bacillus | type genus of the Bacillaceae, includes many saprophytes important in decay of organic matter and a number of parasites |
genus Clostridium | anaerobic or micro-aerophilic rod-shaped or spindle-shaped saprophytes, nearly cosmopolitan in soil, animal intestines, and dung |
genus Nostoc | type genus of the family Nostocaceae: freshwater blue-green algae |
genus Trichodesmium | a genus of blue-green algae |
Pseudomonas genus Pseudomonas | type genus of the family Pseudomonodaceae |
Xanthomonas genus Xanthomonas | a genus of bacteria similar to Pseudomonas but producing a yellow pigment that is not soluble in water |
Nitrobacter genus Nitrobacter | rod-shaped soil bacteria |
Nitrosomonas genus Nitrosomonas | ellipsoidal soil bacteria |
genus Thiobacillus | a genus of bacteria |
genus Spirillum | a genus of bacteria |
genus Vibrio | a genus of bacteria |
Bacteroides genus Bacteroides | type genus of Bacteroidaceae, genus of Gram-negative rodlike anaerobic bacteria producing no endospores and no pigment and living in the gut of man and animals |
Calymmatobacterium genus Calymmatobacterium | a genus of bacterial rods containing only the one species that causes granuloma inguinale |
Francisella genus Francisella | a genus of Gram-negative aerobic bacteria that occur as pathogens and parasite in many animals (including humans) |
genus Corynebacterium | the type genus of the family Corynebacteriaceae which is widely distributed in nature, the best known are parasites and pathogens of humans and domestic animals |
genus Listeria | a genus of aerobic motile bacteria of the family Corynebacteriaceae containing small Gram-positive rods |
genus Escherichia | a genus of bacteria |
genus Klebsiella | a genus of bacteria |
genus Salmonella | a genus of bacteria |
genus Serratia Serratia | a genus of motile peritrichous bacteria that contain small Gram-negative rod |
genus Shigella | a genus of bacteria |
genus Erwinia | a genus of bacteria |
genus Rickettsia | can cause typhus and Rocky Mountain spotted fever in humans |
genus Chlamydia | type genus of the family Chlamydiaceae: diseaseausing parasites |
genus Mycoplasma | type and sole genus of the family Mycoplasmataceae |
genus Actinomyces | type genus of the family Actinomycetaceae |
genus Streptomyces | type genus of the family Streptomycetaceae |
genus Mycobacterium | nonmotile Gram-positive aerobic bacteria |
Polyangium genus Polyangium | type genus of the family Polyangiaceae: myxobacteria with rounded fruiting bodies enclosed in a membrane |
Micrococcus genus Micrococcus | type genus of the family Micrococcaceae |
genus Staphylococcus | includes many pathogenic species |
genus Lactobacillus | type genus of the family Lactobacillaceae |
genus Diplococcus | a genus of bacteria |
genus Streptococcus | a genus of bacteria |
Spirochaeta genus Spirochaeta | the type genus of the family Spirochaetaceae, a bacterium that is flexible, undulating, and chiefly aquatic |
genus Treponema | type genus of Treponemataceae: anaerobic spirochetes with an undulating rigid body, parasitic in warm-blooded animals |
genus Borrelia | small flexible parasitic spirochetes having three to five wavy spirals |
genus Leptospira | very slender aerobic spirochetes, free-living or parasitic in mammals |
protoctist genus | any genus of Protoctista |
genus Amoeba | protozoan inhabiting moist soils or bottom vegetation in fresh or salt water |