superl.
Fleshy; characterized by fatness; plump; corpulent; not lean; as, a fat man; a fat ox.
Next Worda.
Pertaining to, or designating, a complex organic acid, obtained as a yellowish white gum by the oxidation of croconic acid. →
n.
A glucoside resembling, but distinct from, quercitrin. Rutin is found in the leaves of the rue (Ruta graveolens) and other plants, and obtained as a bitter yellow crystalline substance which yields quercitin on decomposition. →
n.
A genus of flowering plants. Zauschneria Californica is a suffrutescent perennial, with showy red flowers much resembling those of the garden fuchsia. →
a.
Pertaining to, or resulting from, sexual connection; formed by the union of the male and female elements. →