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16 words match “MOREL”

MOREL n. 3 definitions
Nightshade; -- so called from its blackish purple berries. [Written also morelle.]
MORELAND n.
Moorland.
MORELLE n.
Nightshade. See 2d Morel.
MORELLO n.
A kind of nearly black cherry with dark red flesh and juice, -- used chiefly for preserving.
AMPLIFICATORY a.
Serving to amplify or enlarge; amplificative. Morell.
ASCOMYCETES n.
ore sacs. It comprises many orders, among which are the yeasts, molds, mildews, truffles, morels, etc. -- As`co*my*ce"tous (#), a.
CHERRY n.
ed for the fruit, some of which are, the begarreau, blackheart, black Tartarian, oxheart, morelle or morello, May-duke (corrupted from Médoc in France). (b) The wild cherry; as, prunus serotina (wild black cherry), valued for its timber; P. Virginiana (choke cherry), an American shrub which bears astringent fruit; P. a…
CONTEST v.
sophical aphorisms have been more frequenty repeated, few more contested than this. J. D. Morell.
ELONGATION n.
That which lengthens out; continuation. May not the mountains of Westmoreland and Cumberland be considered as elongations of these two chains Pinkerton.
IDEATION n.
sidua which have been accumulated . . . all enter now into the process of ideation. J. D. Morell.
KENDAL GREEN; KENDAL n.
n by dye obtained from the woad-waxen, formerly used by Flemish weavers at Kendal, in Westmoreland, England. J. Smith (Dict. Econ. Plants). How couldst thou know these men in Kendal green Shak.
LIGNEOUS a.
ould be tried with shoots of vines and roots of red roses; for it may be they, being of a moreligneous nature, will incorporate with the tree itself. Bacon. Ligneous marble, wood coated or prepared so as to resemble marble.
MORIL n.
An edible fungus. Same as 1st Morel.
OBJECTIFY v.
come an object; to cause to assume the character of an object; to render objective. J. D. Morell.
ROCK n.
snake of India (P. molurus). The Australian rock snakes mostly belong to the allied genus Morelia. -- Rock snipe (Zoöl.), the purple sandpiper (Tringa maritima); -- called also rock bird, rock plover, winter snipe. -- Rock soap (Min.), a kind of clay having a smooth, greasy feel, and adhering to the tongue. -- Rock…
TRACHEOCELE n.
A tumor containing air and communicating with the trachea. Morell Mackenzie.