Fibrous: alternatives and connections

A genus of grasses, including species called in common language bent grass. Some of them, as redtop (Agrostis vulgaris), are valuable…

Nourishing matter stored up within the integuments of the seed in many plants, but not incorporated in the embryo. It is the floury pa…

A name in the East Indies and the Indian islands for all ardent spirits. Arrack is often distilled from a fermented mixture of rice, m…

A genus of grasses, including the common oat (Avena sativa); the oat grasses.

An heraldic shield; a coat of arms, or a bearing on a coat of arms; armorial bearings.

A light, loose over-garment, like a smock frock, worn especially by workingmen in France; also, a loose coat of any material, as the u…

A smooth coat of brown mortar, usually the second coat, and the preparation for the finishing coat of plaster.

The grayish viscid substance constituting the buffy coat. See Buffy coat, under Buffy, a.

the part of a plant from which the roots spring or the part of a stalk or trunk nearest the roots

To cover with a layer of any substance; as, to coat a jar with tin foil; to coat a ceiling.

Not wearing a coat; also, not possessing a coat.

A palm tree producing the cocoanut (Cocos nucifera). It grows in nearly all tropical countries, attaining a height of sixty or eighty…

A material for cordage, matting, etc., consisting of the prepared fiber of the outer husk of the cocoanut.

The cocoanut.

The dried meat of the cocoanut, from which cocoanut oil is expressed.

A mineral occuring in silky fibers of a lavender blue color. It is related to hornblende and is essentially a silicate of iron and sod…

To tear up the roots of, or by the roots; hence, to tear from a foundation; to uproot.

A coat with skirts behind only, as distinct from the frock coat, of which the skirts surround the body. It is worn on occasions of cer…