Botanical
(a.) Of or pertaining to botany |
Coco palm
() See Cocoa. |
Cocoa palm
() A palm tree producing the cocoanut (Cocos nucifera). It grows in nearly all tropical countries, attaining a height of sixty or eighty feet. The trunk is without branches, and has a tuft of leaves at the top, each being fifteen or twenty feet in length, and at the base of these the nuts hang in clusters |
Doom palm
() A species of palm tree (Hyphaene Thebaica), highly valued for the fibrous pulp of its fruit, which has the flavor of gingerbread, and is largely eaten in Egypt and Abyssinia. |
Doum palm
() See Doom palm. |
False
(superl.) Uttering falsehood |
False
(superl.) Not faithful or loyal, as to obligations, allegiance, vows, etc. |
False
(superl.) Not according with truth or reality |
False
(superl.) Not genuine or real |
False
(superl.) Not well founded |
False
(superl.) Not essential or permanent, as parts of a structure which are temporary or supplemental. |
False
(superl.) Not in tune. |
False
(adv.) Not truly |
False
(a.) To report falsely |
False
(a.) To betray |
False
(a.) To mislead by want of truth |
False
(a.) To feign |
False-faced
(a.) Hypocritical. |
False-heart
(a.) False-hearted. |
False-hearted
(a.) Hollow or unsound at the core |
Fan palm
() Any palm tree having fan-shaped or radiate leaves |
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 |
Grugru palm
() A West Indian name for several kinds of palm. See Macaw tree, under Macaw. |
Ita palm
() A magnificent species of palm (Mauritia flexuosa), growing near the Orinoco. The natives eat its fruit and buds, drink its sap, and make thread and cord from its fiber. |
Jagua palm
() A great Brazilian palm (Maximiliana regia), having immense spathes which are used for baskets and tubs. |
Jupati palm
() A great Brazilian palm tree (Raphia taedigera), used by the natives for many purposes. |
Palm
(n.) The inner and somewhat concave part of the hand between the bases of the fingers and the wrist. |
Palm
(n.) A lineal measure equal either to the breadth of the hand or to its length from the wrist to the ends of the fingers |
Palm
(n.) A metallic disk, attached to a strap, and worn the palm of the hand, -- used to push the needle through the canvas, in sewing sails, etc. |
Palm
(n.) The broad flattened part of an antler, as of a full-grown fallow deer |
Palm
(n.) The flat inner face of an anchor fluke. |
Palm
(n.) Any endogenous tree of the order Palmae or Palmaceae |
Palm
(n.) A branch or leaf of the palm, anciently borne or worn as a symbol of victory or rejoicing. |
Palm
(n.) Any symbol or token of superiority, success, or triumph |
Palm
(v. t.) To handle. |
Palm
(v. t.) To manipulate with, or conceal in, the palm of the hand |
Palm
(v. t.) To impose by fraud, as by sleight of hand |
Palm Sunday
() The Sunday next before Easter |
Queen
(n.) The wife of a king. |
Queen
(n.) A woman who is the sovereign of a kingdom |
Queen
(n.) A woman eminent in power or attractions |
Queen
(n.) The fertile, or fully developed, female of social bees, ants, and termites. |
Queen
(n.) The most powerful, and except the king the most important, piece in a set of chessmen. |
Queen
(n.) A playing card bearing the picture of a queen |
Queen
(n.) A male homosexual, esp. one who is effeminate or dresses in women's clothing. |
Queen
(v. i.) To act the part of a queen. |
Queen
(v. i.) To make a queen (or other piece, at the player's discretion) of by moving it to the eighth row |
Queen truss
() A truss framed with queen-posts |
Sago
(n.) A dry granulated starch imported from the East Indies, much used for making puddings and as an article of diet for the sick |
Braxton-Hicks contraction
false labor | painless contractions of the muscles of the uterus that continue throughout pregnancy with increasing frequency |
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) |
false pretense
false pretence | (law) an offense involving intent to defraud and false representation and obtaining property as a result of that misrepresentation |
perjury
bearing false witness
lying under oath | criminal offense of making false statements under oath |
| false imprisonment | (law) confinement without legal authority |
| false verdict | a manifestly unjust verdict, not true to the evidence |
| 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 |