English words for 'Alternative form of bitterroot.'
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adj
noun
- Lewisia rediviva, a small, low, pink flower with a yellow center.
- Apocynum androsaemifolium (fly-trap dogbane).
- Gentiana lutea (great yellow gentian, bitterwort)
- showy succulent ground-hugging plant of Rocky Mountains regions having deep to pale pink flowers and fleshy farinaceous roots; the Montana state flower
prefix
noun
- (usually in the plural bitters) A liquid or powder, made from bitter herbs, used in mixed drinks or as a tonic.
- A type of beer heavily flavored with hops.
- (nautical) A turn of a cable about the bitts.
- (computing, informal, in combination) A hardware system whose architecture is based around units of the specified number of bits (binary digits).
- the taste experience when quinine or coffee is taken into the mouth
- the property of having a harsh unpleasant taste
- English term for a dry sharp-tasting ale with strong flavor of hops (usually on draft)
verb
adj
- Cynical and resentful.
- Harsh, piercing, acerbic or stinging.
- Hateful or hostile.
- Having an acrid taste (usually from a basic substance).
- very difficult to accept or bear
- expressive of severe grief or regret
- proceeding from or exhibiting great hostility or animosity
- causing a sharp and acrid taste experience
- marked by strong resentment or cynicism
- causing a sharply painful or stinging sensation; used especially of cold
- harsh or corrosive in tone
adv
noun
- (botany) Any of various plants, often bearing bitter or poisonous fruit.
- A bitter apple, bitterball, or bitter tomato (Solanum incanum), a plant native to sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East, and India.
- (medieval mythology) A gigantic tree supposed to have grown on the site of the destroyed cities Sodom and Gomorrah (see Genesis 18–19 in the Bible), the apples of which would turn to ash and smoke once picked.
- (medieval mythology) The fruit of the mythical tree.
- A black spine nightshade or devil's apple (Solanum linnaeanum), a plant native to southern Africa that bears poisonous berries.
- A nipplefruit (Solanum mammosum), a plant native to South America.
- A mudar (Calotropis procera), a flowering plant, found from northern Africa to southeast Asia, which bears poisonous fruit.
- A forest bitterberry (Solanum anguivi), a plant native to non-arid parts of Africa.
- A Carolina horsenettle (Solanum carolinense), a plant native to North America.
- A bitter apple, colocynth, etc. (Citrullus colocynthis), a desert plant native to Asia and the Mediterranean Basin with extremely bitter flesh.
noun
- The root of such a plant, or an extract of these roots.
- Any plant of two species of the genus Panax (Panax ginseng and Panax quinquefolius), having forked roots supposed to have medicinal and aphrodisiac properties.
- aromatic root of ginseng plants
- Chinese herb with palmately compound leaves and small greenish flowers and forked aromatic roots believed to have medicinal powers
adj
- Extremely sour, bitter.
- (medicine) Having the effect of drawing tissue together; styptic.
- Causing a dry or puckering mouthfeel; characteristic of foods with high tannin content, such as certain kinds of berries and citrus fruits.
- Sharp, caustic, severe.
- sour or bitter in taste
- tending to draw together or constrict soft organic tissue
noun
noun
- bitter quandong (Santalum murrayanum) or its fruit.
- hard quandong (Elaeocarpus obovatus)
- white quandong (Elaeocarpus kirtonii)
- A small southern Australian shrub (Santalum acuminatum) or its edible red fruit.
- Arnhem Land quandong, bony quandong (Elaeocarpus arnhemicus)
- smooth-leaved quandong, eumundi (Elaeocarpus eumundi)
- Kuranda quandong (Elaeocarpus bancroftii)
- Northern quandong, hard quandong, Northern hard quandong (Elaeocarpus sericopetalus)
- hairy quandong (Elaeocarpus williamsianus)
- tropical quandong (Elaeocarpus largiflorens)
- brown quandong, grey quandong (Elaeocarpus ruminatus)
- brush quandong, blue quandong, white quandong, quandong (Elaeocarpus grandis)
- white quandong, Northern quandong (Elaeocarpus foveolatus)
- highroot quandong (Aceratium concinnum)
- mountain quandong (Elaeocarpus holopetalus )
- buff guandong, grey quandong (Peripentadenia mearsii)
- brown-hearted quandong (Elaeocarpus kirtonii)
- Ash quandong (Elaeocarpus reticulatus)
- quandong (Elaeocarpus ferruginiflorus)
- desert quandong (Santalum lanceolatum) or its fruit.
- blue quandong (Elaeocarpus angustifolius) or its fruit.
- brown quandong (Elaeocarpus coorangooloo)
- Kuranda quandong (Elaeocarpus johnsonii)
- Australian tree with edible flesh and edible nutlike seed
- red Australian fruit; used for dessert or in jam
- the fruit of the Brisbane quandong tree
- Australian tree having hard white timber and glossy green leaves with white flowers followed by one-seeded glossy blue fruit
noun
verb
- Of a bittern, to make its characteristic breeding call.
- (criminal slang and US military slang, circa 1920–1950) To encounter and stop, to catch.
- (slang, transitive) To assassinate; to bump off.
- To move up or down by a step; displace.
- (physical chemistry, of a superheated liquid) To suddenly boil, causing movement of the vessel and loss of liquid.
- (transitive) To move the time of (a scheduled event).
- (transitive) To pick (a lock) with a repeated striking motion that dislodges the pins.
- (industrial relations, transitive) To displace (another employee in an organization) on the basis of seniority.
- (Internet) To post in an Internet forum thread in order to raise the thread's profile by returning it to the top of the list of active threads.
- (card games) In the game of khanhoo, to claim a newly discarded card when it is not one's turn, permitted when one can use the card to form a meld other than a sequence.
- (slang) To play music through a speaker, often loudly and in public.
- To knock against or run into with a jolt.
- (transitive) To move (a booked passenger) to a later flight because of earlier delays or cancellations.
- (intransitive) To move while bumping up and down, as a cart or car does on rough ground.
- to play music at loud volume
- remove or force from a position of dwelling previously occupied
- knock against with force or violence
- dance erotically or dance with the pelvis thrust forward
- to enjoy some music greatly
- come upon, as if by accident; meet with
- assign to a lower position; reduce in rank
intj
noun
- A swelling on the skin caused by illness or injury.
- A protuberance on a level surface.
- A light blow or jolting collision.
- (US, broadcasting) A short, self-promotional spot on a radio or television station.
- The swollen abdomen of a pregnant woman.
- (rowing) The point, in a race in which boats are spaced apart at the start, at which a boat begins to overtake the boat ahead.
- A training match for a fighting dog.
- A temporary increase in a quantity, as shown in a graph.
- (US, slang, uncountable) Music, especially played over speakers at loud volume with strong bass frequency response.
- The sound of such a collision.
- (preceded by definite article) A disco dance in which partners rhythmically bump their hips together.
- (uncountable) A coarse cotton fabric.
- (snooker, slang) The jaw of either of the middle pockets.
- The breeding call made by the bittern; a boom.
- In skipping, a single jump over two consecutive turns of the rope.
- (mining) A sudden movement of underground strata, preceded by a characteristic sound.
- (slang) A dose of a drug such as ketamine or cocaine, when snorted recreationally.
- (colloquial) A minor problem or difficulty.
- (card games) In the game of khanhoo, the act of claiming a newly discarded card when it is not one's turn, permitted when one can use the card to form a meld other than a sequence.
- (Internet) A post in an Internet forum thread made in order to raise the thread's profile by returning it to the top of the list of active threads.
- (industrial relations) A reassignment of jobs within an organization (for example, when an existing employee leaves) on the basis of seniority.
- an impact (as from a collision)
- something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings
- a lump on the body caused by a blow
noun
- Another similarly poisonous and medicinal plant, the black false hellebore, Veratrum nigrum.
- A poisonous and medicinal plant, Helleborus niger.
- slightly hairy perennial having deep green leathery leaves and flowers that are ultimately purplish-green
- European evergreen plant with white or purplish rose-like winter-blooming flowers
noun
- European strong-scented perennial herb with grey-green bitter-tasting leaves; an irritant similar to poison ivy
- sadness associated with some wrong done or some disappointment
- (French) a street or road in France
- leaves sometimes used for flavoring fruit or claret cup but should be used with great caution: can cause irritation like poison ivy
- Any of various perennial shrubs of the genus Ruta, especially the herb Ruta graveolens (common rue), formerly used in medicines.
verb
noun
- The root of the plant, used as a medicine or a dye.
- A dye made from the plant.
- A deep reddish colour, like that of the dye.
- A herbaceous plant, Rubia tinctorum, native to Asia, cultivated for a red-purple dye (alizarin) obtained from the root.
- Eurasian herb having small yellow flowers and red roots formerly an important source of the dye alizarin
adj
verb
noun
- A sour substance.
- Any compound that can accept a pair of electrons to form a covalent bond; a Lewis acid.
- Any corrosive substance.
- (uncountable, slang) LSD, lysergic acid diethylamide.
- Any compound that easily donates protons to a base; a Brønsted acid.
- Any compound which yields H+ ions (protons) when dissolved in water; an Arrhenius acid.
- street name for lysergic acid diethylamide
- any of various water-soluble compounds having a sour taste and capable of turning litmus red and reacting with a base to form a salt
adj
- (music) Denoting a musical genre that is a distortion (as if hallucinogenic) of an existing genre, as in acid house, acid jazz, acid rock.
- Of or pertaining to an acid; acidic.
- (figuratively) Sour-tempered.
- Sour, sharp, or biting to the taste; tart; having the taste of vinegar.
- having the characteristics of an acid
- harsh or corrosive in tone
- being sour to the taste
noun
- (usually in the plural bitters) A liquid or powder, made from bitter herbs, used in mixed drinks or as a tonic.
- A type of beer heavily flavored with hops.
- (nautical) A turn of a cable about the bitts.
- (computing, informal, in combination) A hardware system whose architecture is based around units of the specified number of bits (binary digits).
- the taste experience when quinine or coffee is taken into the mouth
- the property of having a harsh unpleasant taste
- English term for a dry sharp-tasting ale with strong flavor of hops (usually on draft)
verb
adj
- Cynical and resentful.
- Harsh, piercing, acerbic or stinging.
- Hateful or hostile.
- Having an acrid taste (usually from a basic substance).
- very difficult to accept or bear
- expressive of severe grief or regret
- proceeding from or exhibiting great hostility or animosity
- causing a sharp and acrid taste experience
- marked by strong resentment or cynicism
- causing a sharply painful or stinging sensation; used especially of cold
- harsh or corrosive in tone
adv
noun
- (botany) Any of various plants, often bearing bitter or poisonous fruit.
- A bitter apple, bitterball, or bitter tomato (Solanum incanum), a plant native to sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East, and India.
- (medieval mythology) A gigantic tree supposed to have grown on the site of the destroyed cities Sodom and Gomorrah (see Genesis 18–19 in the Bible), the apples of which would turn to ash and smoke once picked.
- (medieval mythology) The fruit of the mythical tree.
- A black spine nightshade or devil's apple (Solanum linnaeanum), a plant native to southern Africa that bears poisonous berries.
- A nipplefruit (Solanum mammosum), a plant native to South America.
- A mudar (Calotropis procera), a flowering plant, found from northern Africa to southeast Asia, which bears poisonous fruit.
- A forest bitterberry (Solanum anguivi), a plant native to non-arid parts of Africa.
- A Carolina horsenettle (Solanum carolinense), a plant native to North America.
- A bitter apple, colocynth, etc. (Citrullus colocynthis), a desert plant native to Asia and the Mediterranean Basin with extremely bitter flesh.
noun
- The root of such a plant, or an extract of these roots.
- Any plant of two species of the genus Panax (Panax ginseng and Panax quinquefolius), having forked roots supposed to have medicinal and aphrodisiac properties.
- aromatic root of ginseng plants
- Chinese herb with palmately compound leaves and small greenish flowers and forked aromatic roots believed to have medicinal powers
noun
- bitter quandong (Santalum murrayanum) or its fruit.
- hard quandong (Elaeocarpus obovatus)
- white quandong (Elaeocarpus kirtonii)
- A small southern Australian shrub (Santalum acuminatum) or its edible red fruit.
- Arnhem Land quandong, bony quandong (Elaeocarpus arnhemicus)
- smooth-leaved quandong, eumundi (Elaeocarpus eumundi)
- Kuranda quandong (Elaeocarpus bancroftii)
- Northern quandong, hard quandong, Northern hard quandong (Elaeocarpus sericopetalus)
- hairy quandong (Elaeocarpus williamsianus)
- tropical quandong (Elaeocarpus largiflorens)
- brown quandong, grey quandong (Elaeocarpus ruminatus)
- brush quandong, blue quandong, white quandong, quandong (Elaeocarpus grandis)
- white quandong, Northern quandong (Elaeocarpus foveolatus)
- highroot quandong (Aceratium concinnum)
- mountain quandong (Elaeocarpus holopetalus )
- buff guandong, grey quandong (Peripentadenia mearsii)
- brown-hearted quandong (Elaeocarpus kirtonii)
- Ash quandong (Elaeocarpus reticulatus)
- quandong (Elaeocarpus ferruginiflorus)
- desert quandong (Santalum lanceolatum) or its fruit.
- blue quandong (Elaeocarpus angustifolius) or its fruit.
- brown quandong (Elaeocarpus coorangooloo)
- Kuranda quandong (Elaeocarpus johnsonii)
- Australian tree with edible flesh and edible nutlike seed
- red Australian fruit; used for dessert or in jam
- the fruit of the Brisbane quandong tree
- Australian tree having hard white timber and glossy green leaves with white flowers followed by one-seeded glossy blue fruit
noun
noun
- Another similarly poisonous and medicinal plant, the black false hellebore, Veratrum nigrum.
- A poisonous and medicinal plant, Helleborus niger.
- slightly hairy perennial having deep green leathery leaves and flowers that are ultimately purplish-green
- European evergreen plant with white or purplish rose-like winter-blooming flowers
noun
- European strong-scented perennial herb with grey-green bitter-tasting leaves; an irritant similar to poison ivy
- sadness associated with some wrong done or some disappointment
- (French) a street or road in France
- leaves sometimes used for flavoring fruit or claret cup but should be used with great caution: can cause irritation like poison ivy
- Any of various perennial shrubs of the genus Ruta, especially the herb Ruta graveolens (common rue), formerly used in medicines.
verb
noun
- The root of the plant, used as a medicine or a dye.
- A dye made from the plant.
- A deep reddish colour, like that of the dye.
- A herbaceous plant, Rubia tinctorum, native to Asia, cultivated for a red-purple dye (alizarin) obtained from the root.
- Eurasian herb having small yellow flowers and red roots formerly an important source of the dye alizarin
adj
verb
noun
- A sour substance.
- Any compound that can accept a pair of electrons to form a covalent bond; a Lewis acid.
- Any corrosive substance.
- (uncountable, slang) LSD, lysergic acid diethylamide.
- Any compound that easily donates protons to a base; a Brønsted acid.
- Any compound which yields H+ ions (protons) when dissolved in water; an Arrhenius acid.
- street name for lysergic acid diethylamide
- any of various water-soluble compounds having a sour taste and capable of turning litmus red and reacting with a base to form a salt
adj
- (music) Denoting a musical genre that is a distortion (as if hallucinogenic) of an existing genre, as in acid house, acid jazz, acid rock.
- Of or pertaining to an acid; acidic.
- (figuratively) Sour-tempered.
- Sour, sharp, or biting to the taste; tart; having the taste of vinegar.
- having the characteristics of an acid
- harsh or corrosive in tone
- being sour to the taste
noun
- (usually in the plural bitters) A liquid or powder, made from bitter herbs, used in mixed drinks or as a tonic.
- A type of beer heavily flavored with hops.
- (nautical) A turn of a cable about the bitts.
- (computing, informal, in combination) A hardware system whose architecture is based around units of the specified number of bits (binary digits).
- the taste experience when quinine or coffee is taken into the mouth
- the property of having a harsh unpleasant taste
- English term for a dry sharp-tasting ale with strong flavor of hops (usually on draft)
verb
adj
- Cynical and resentful.
- Harsh, piercing, acerbic or stinging.
- Hateful or hostile.
- Having an acrid taste (usually from a basic substance).
- very difficult to accept or bear
- expressive of severe grief or regret
- proceeding from or exhibiting great hostility or animosity
- causing a sharp and acrid taste experience
- marked by strong resentment or cynicism
- causing a sharply painful or stinging sensation; used especially of cold
- harsh or corrosive in tone
adv
verb
- Of a bittern, to make its characteristic breeding call.
- (criminal slang and US military slang, circa 1920–1950) To encounter and stop, to catch.
- (slang, transitive) To assassinate; to bump off.
- To move up or down by a step; displace.
- (physical chemistry, of a superheated liquid) To suddenly boil, causing movement of the vessel and loss of liquid.
- (transitive) To move the time of (a scheduled event).
- (transitive) To pick (a lock) with a repeated striking motion that dislodges the pins.
- (industrial relations, transitive) To displace (another employee in an organization) on the basis of seniority.
- (Internet) To post in an Internet forum thread in order to raise the thread's profile by returning it to the top of the list of active threads.
- (card games) In the game of khanhoo, to claim a newly discarded card when it is not one's turn, permitted when one can use the card to form a meld other than a sequence.
- (slang) To play music through a speaker, often loudly and in public.
- To knock against or run into with a jolt.
- (transitive) To move (a booked passenger) to a later flight because of earlier delays or cancellations.
- (intransitive) To move while bumping up and down, as a cart or car does on rough ground.
- to play music at loud volume
- remove or force from a position of dwelling previously occupied
- knock against with force or violence
- dance erotically or dance with the pelvis thrust forward
- to enjoy some music greatly
- come upon, as if by accident; meet with
- assign to a lower position; reduce in rank
intj
noun
- A swelling on the skin caused by illness or injury.
- A protuberance on a level surface.
- A light blow or jolting collision.
- (US, broadcasting) A short, self-promotional spot on a radio or television station.
- The swollen abdomen of a pregnant woman.
- (rowing) The point, in a race in which boats are spaced apart at the start, at which a boat begins to overtake the boat ahead.
- A training match for a fighting dog.
- A temporary increase in a quantity, as shown in a graph.
- (US, slang, uncountable) Music, especially played over speakers at loud volume with strong bass frequency response.
- The sound of such a collision.
- (preceded by definite article) A disco dance in which partners rhythmically bump their hips together.
- (uncountable) A coarse cotton fabric.
- (snooker, slang) The jaw of either of the middle pockets.
- The breeding call made by the bittern; a boom.
- In skipping, a single jump over two consecutive turns of the rope.
- (mining) A sudden movement of underground strata, preceded by a characteristic sound.
- (slang) A dose of a drug such as ketamine or cocaine, when snorted recreationally.
- (colloquial) A minor problem or difficulty.
- (card games) In the game of khanhoo, the act of claiming a newly discarded card when it is not one's turn, permitted when one can use the card to form a meld other than a sequence.
- (Internet) A post in an Internet forum thread made in order to raise the thread's profile by returning it to the top of the list of active threads.
- (industrial relations) A reassignment of jobs within an organization (for example, when an existing employee leaves) on the basis of seniority.
- an impact (as from a collision)
- something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings
- a lump on the body caused by a blow
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adj
noun
- Lewisia rediviva, a small, low, pink flower with a yellow center.
- Apocynum androsaemifolium (fly-trap dogbane).
- Gentiana lutea (great yellow gentian, bitterwort)
- showy succulent ground-hugging plant of Rocky Mountains regions having deep to pale pink flowers and fleshy farinaceous roots; the Montana state flower
adj
- Extremely sour, bitter.
- (medicine) Having the effect of drawing tissue together; styptic.
- Causing a dry or puckering mouthfeel; characteristic of foods with high tannin content, such as certain kinds of berries and citrus fruits.
- Sharp, caustic, severe.
- sour or bitter in taste
- tending to draw together or constrict soft organic tissue