Chemical composition of nine edible aroid cultivars of Bangladesh. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 18] Reference
Why do these intensely acrid, aroid plants lose their acridity on being heated?. From Wordnik.com. [Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86] Reference
We meet with organism of the form in the family of the Araceæ, or aroid plants. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 460, October 25, 1884] Reference
Commission in Victoria, a knowledge of cellar routine and cellar work would aroid the spoiling of much good wine. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of Living in Australia ; together with three hundred Australian cookery recipes and accessory kitchen information by Mrs. H. Wicken] Reference
In Part III (38 mins., beginning the second videotape), he discusses corm-producing aroid species such as tanias, taros, eddoes and dasheens. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 24] Reference
Other rare plants include the sedge Machaerina rubiginosa, the aroid Cyrtosperma merkusii, and floating water plants such as Hydrocharis dubia and water chestnut (Trapa maximoviscii). From Wordnik.com. [Western Java rain forests] Reference
Recently a patented drug, "Tonga," has obtained considerable notoriety for curing obstinate neuralgia of the head and face -- this turning out to be the dried scraped stem of an aroid (or arum) called. From Wordnik.com. [Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure] Reference
W. Pownall, the representative of the Australian Wine Company, explained before the Vegetable Products Commission in Victoria, a knowledge of cellar routine and cellar work would aroid the spoiling of much good wine. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of Living in Australia] Reference
He had been at pains, too, to smooth down the face of the rock for the reception of the unshaded daubs of terra-cotta, using peradventure the flat stone upon which he was wont to bruise the hot and biting roots of the aroid. From Wordnik.com. [The Confessions of a Beachcomber] Reference
The Sumatra rain forests are home to some of the world's most charismatic flowering plants: Rafflesia arnoldii, which produces the largest flower in the world (up to 1 meters (m) wide), and Amorphophallus titanum, which stands more than 2 m tall and produces aroid flowers. From Wordnik.com. [Sumatran lowland rain forests] Reference
H h 2 rally Digitized by LjOOQIC % i6 THOUGHTS UPON rally aroid the whip. —. From Wordnik.com. [Thoughts Upon Hunting: In a Series of Familiar Letters to a Friend] Reference
Col. Moultou's notes and debt to Mr. Gooll; discour - ages war, but cannot lee hov to aroid it. From Wordnik.com. [Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society] Reference
Croat's newly discovered aroid, Anthurium centimillesimum, was found last year in an Ecuadorean rainforest. From Wordnik.com. [STLtoday.com Top News Headlines] Reference
House and thence up twisty iron steps to a nook like a tree refuge in New Guinea, among palm boles and extravagant aroid growths. From Wordnik.com. [Mrs. Warren's Daughter A Story of the Woman's Movement] Reference
Here again we are struck by resemblances to the forms that were the subjects of our previous study, we even come across direct transitional forms, which differ from the others only by the lateral curve of the apex of the leaf; sometimes it is the central part, the spadix, that is bent outward, and the very details show a striking agreement with the structure of the aroid inflorescence, so much so that one might regard them as actually copied from them. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 460, October 25, 1884] Reference
• Hypnotized by aroid. From Wordnik.com. [Beauty in Destruction] Reference
Didnt buy aroid, pettiteroid, rocket, or any queers. From Wordnik.com. [Yahoo! Sports - Top News] Reference
Ir. Lanaroidim, nim aroid, nieaamoir, kovradh, tagradh, aidhneasj mm famaraid. From Wordnik.com. [Archaeologia Britannica, giving some account additional to what has been hitherto publish'd, of the languages, histories and customs of the original inhabitants of Great Britain: : from collections and observations in travels through Wales, Cornwal, Bas-Bretagne, Ireland and Scotland.] Reference
LearnThatWord and the Open Dictionary of English are programs by LearnThat Foundation, a 501(c)3 nonprofit.
Questions? Feedback? We want to hear from you!
Email us
or click here for instant support.
Copyright © 2005 and after - LearnThat Foundation. Patents pending.

