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Feverwort :: Feverwort (n.) See Fever root, under Fever..

Anchusin :: Anchusin (n.) A resinoid coloring matter obtained from alkanet root.

Xanthopuccine :: Xanthopuccine (n.) One of three alkaloids found in the root of the yellow puccoon (Hydrastis Canadensis). It is a yellow crystalline substance, and resembles berberine..

Calumbin :: Calumbin (n.) A bitter principle extracted as a white crystalline substance from the calumba root.

Taro :: Taro (n.) A name for several aroid plants (Colocasia antiquorum, var. esculenta, Colocasia macrorhiza, etc.), and their rootstocks. They have large ovate-sagittate leaves and large fleshy rootstocks, which are cooked and used for food in tropical countries..

Pileorhiza :: Pileorhiza (n.) A cap of cells which covers the growing extremity of a root; a rootcap.

Veratralbine :: Veratralbine (n.) A yellowish amorphous alkaloid extracted from the rootstock of Veratrum album.

Bryonin :: Bryonin (n.) A bitter principle obtained from the root of the bryony (Bryonia alba and B. dioica). It is a white, or slightly colored, substance, and is emetic and cathartic..

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

Hill :: Hill (n.) The earth raised about the roots of a plant or cluster of plants. [U. S.] See Hill, v. t..

Sod :: Sod (n.) That stratum of the surface of the soil which is filled with the roots of grass, or any portion of that surface; turf; sward..

Mull :: Mull (n.) An inferior kind of madder prepared from the smaller roots or the peelings and refuse of the larger.

Displant :: Displant (v. t.) To remove (what is planted or fixed); to unsettle and take away; to displace; to root out; as, to displant inhabitants..

Derivative :: Derivative (n.) A chord, not fundamental, but obtained from another by inversion; or, vice versa, a ground tone or root implied in its harmonics in an actual chord..

Radicated :: Radicated (a.) Having rootlike organs for attachment.

Rooted :: Rooted (a.) Having taken root; firmly implanted; fixed in the heart.

Violine :: Violine (n.) A pale yellow amorphous substance of alkaloidal nature and emetic properties, said to have been extracted from the root and foliage of the violet (Viola)..

Garlic :: Garlic (n.) A plant of the genus Allium (A. sativum is the cultivated variety), having a bulbous root, a very strong smell, and an acrid, pungent taste. Each root is composed of several lesser bulbs, called cloves of garlic, inclosed in a common membranous coat, and easily separable..

Rhizocephala :: Rhizocephala (n. pl.) A division of Pectostraca including saclike parasites of Crustacea. They adhere by rootlike extensions of the head. See Illusration in Appendix.

Triliteral :: Triliteral (a.) Consisting of three letters; trigrammic; as, a triliteral root or word..

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