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Phantasmal. Dr. H. More.

A description of celestial phenomena, as rainbows, etc.

See Fantastic.

See Fantasy, and Fancy.

Capable of being planted; fit to be planted. B. Edwards.

peare to designate plants in general, or anything that is planted. As true as steel, as plantage to the moon. Shak. (Troil. iii. sc. 2).

ca) of tropical regions, bearing immense leaves and large clusters of the fruits called plantains. See Musa.

Belonging to plants; as, plantal life. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.

Of or pertaining to the sole of the foot; as, the plantar arteries.

e more important crops, and cultivated by laborers who live on the estate; as, a cotton plantation; a coffee plantation.

Of or pertaining to a quadrant; also, included in the fourth part of a circle; as, quadrantal space. Quadrantal triangle, a spherical triangle having one side equal to a quadrant or arc of 90º. -- Quadrantal versor, a versor that expresses rotation through one right angle.

etraction. The poor man was imprisoned for this discovery, and forced to make a public recantation. Bp. Stillingfleet.

That may be planted again.

The act of planting again; a replanting. [R.] Hallywell.

A colorless crystalline substance, isomeric with piperonal, but having weak acid properties. It is extracted from sandalwood.

Of or pertaining to a natural order of plants (Santalaceæ), of which the genus Santalum is the type, and which includes the buffalo nut and a few other North American plants, and many peculiar plants of the southern hemisphere.

Of, pertaining to, or obtained from, sandalwood (Santalum); -- used specifically to designate an acid obtained as a resinous or red crystalline dyestuff, which is called also santalin.

Santalic acid. See Santalic.

A genus of trees with entire opposite leaves and small apetalous flowers. There are less than a dozen species, occuring from India to Australia and the Pacific Islands. See Sandalwood.

Having broad scutella on the front, and small scales on the posterior side, of the tarsus; -- said of certain birds.