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2,872 words match “LANT”

CEPHALANTHIUM n.
Same as Anthodium.
CIRCUMFLANT a.
Blowing around. [Obs.] Evelyn.
CIRCUMVOLANT a.
Flying around. The circumvolant troubles of humanity. G. Macdonald.
CISATLANTIC a.
On this side of the Atlantic Ocean; -- used of the eastern or the western side, according to the standpoint of the writer. Story.
COAGULANT n.
That which produces coagulation.
CONGRATULANT a.
Rejoicing together; congratulatory. With like joy Congratulant approached him. Milton.
CONJUBILANT a.
Shouting together for joy; rejoicing together. [R.] Neale.
CONTEMPLANT a.
Given to contemplation; meditative. [R.] Coleridge.
CONTRASTIMULANT a. 2 definitions
Counteracting the effects of stimulants; relating to a course of medical treatment based on a theory of contrastimulants. -- n. (Med.)
DEPLANT v.
To take up (plants); to transplant. [R.]
DEPLANTATION n.
Act of taking up plants from beds.
DISGALLANT v.
To deprive of gallantry. [Obs.] B. Jonson.
DISPLANT v. 2 definitions
To remove (what is planted or fixed); to unsettle and take away; to displace; to root out; as, to displant inhabitants. I did not think a look, Or a poor word or two, could have displanted Such a fixed constancy. Beau. & Fl.
DISPLANTATION n.
The act of displanting; removal; displacement. Sir W. Raleigh.
DOVE PLANT n.
ers. The column in the center of the flower resembles a dove; -- called also Holy Spirit plant.
EGGPLANT n.
A plant (Solanum Melongena), of East Indian origin, allied to the tomato, and bearing a large, smooth, edible fruit, shaped somewhat like an egg; mad-apple.
EGLANTINE n. 2 definitions
A species of rose (Rosa Eglanteria), with fragrant foliage and flowers of various colors.
ENGALLANT v.
To make a gallant of. [Obs.] B. Jonson.
EXHALANT a.
Having the quality of exhaling or evaporating.
FEUILLANTS n.
A reformed branch of the Bernardines, founded in 1577 at Feuillans, near Toulouse, in France.
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