n.
A yellow crystalline dyestuff, regarded as a glucoside, extracted from a species (Rhamnus Frangula) of the buckthorn; -- called also rhamnoxanthin. →
n.
To lay waste by force; to desolate by violence; to commit havoc or devastation upon; to spoil; to plunder; to consume. →
n.
A name given to certain species of willow, especially those which do not have flexible shoots, as Salix caprea, S. cinerea, etc. →
a.
Growing with one side adherent to a stem; -- a term applied to the lateral zooids of corals and other compound animals. →