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Race :: Race (n.) A root.

Valerianic :: Valerianic (a.) Performance to, or obtained from, valerian root; specifically, designating an acid which is usually called valeric acid..

Glycyrrhizin :: Glycyrrhizin (n.) A glucoside found in licorice root (Glycyrrhiza), in monesia bark (Chrysophyllum), in the root of the walnut, etc., and extracted as a yellow, amorphous powder, of a bittersweet taste..

Exterminate :: Exterminate (v. t.) To destroy utterly; to cut off; to extirpate; to annihilate; to root out; as, to exterminate a colony, a tribe, or a nation; to exterminate error or vice..

Curcumin :: Curcumin (n.) The coloring principle of turmeric, or curcuma root, extracted as an orange yellow crystalline substance, C14H14O4, with a green fluorescence..

Mudarin :: Mudarin (n.) A brown, amorphous, bitter substance having a strong emetic action, extracted from the root of the mudar..

Organ :: Organ (n.) A natural part or structure in an animal or a plant, capable of performing some special action (termed its function), which is essential to the life or well-being of the whole; as, the heart, lungs, etc., are organs of animals; the root, stem, foliage, etc., are organs of plants..

Root :: Root (n.) The fundamental tone of any chord; the tone from whose harmonics, or overtones, a chord is composed..

Wrote :: Wrote (v. i.) To root with the snout. See 1st Root.

Tetterwort :: Tetterwort (n.) A plant used as a remedy for tetter, -- in England the calendine, in America the bloodroot..

Radication :: Radication (n.) The disposition of the roots of a plant.

Geranine :: Geranine (n.) A valuable astringent obtained from the root of the Geranium maculatum or crane's-bill.

Subdiaconate :: Subderivative (n.) A word derived from a derivative, and not directly from the root; as, friendliness is a subderivative, being derived from friendly, which is in turn a derivative from friend..

Prootic :: Prootic (n.) A prootic bone.

Belladonna :: Belladonna (n.) An herbaceous European plant (Atropa belladonna) with reddish bell-shaped flowers and shining black berries. The whole plant and its fruit are very poisonous, and the root and leaves are used as powerful medicinal agents. Its properties are largely due to the alkaloid atropine which it contains. Called also deadly nightshade..

Radicant :: Radicant (a.) Taking root on, or above, the ground; rooting from the stem, as the trumpet creeper and the ivy..

Oreoselin :: Oreoselin (n.) A white crystalline substance which is obtained indirectly from the root of an umbelliferous plant (Imperatoria Oreoselinum), and yields resorcin on decomposition..

Sesquiplicate :: Sesquiplicate (a.) Subduplicate of the triplicate; -- a term applied to ratios; thus, a and a' are in the sesquiplicate ratio of b and b', when a is to a' as the square root of the cube of b is to the square root of the cube of b', or a:a'::Ãb3:Ãb'3..

Inveterate :: Inveterate (a.) Firmly established by long continuance; obstinate; deep-rooted; of long standing; as, an inveterate disease; an inveterate abuse..

Peucedanin :: Peucedanin (n.) A tasteless white crystalline substance, extracted from the roots of the sulphurwort (Peucedanum), masterwort (Imperatoria), and other related plants; -- called also imperatorin..

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