Phytologist: alternatives and connections

The application of a writer's language, on the ground of analogy, to something not originally referred to or intended.

One who allegorizes; a writer of allegory.

To treat as allegorical; to understand in an allegorical sense; as, when a passage in a writer may understood literally or figurativel…

A figurative sentence or discourse, in which the principal subject is described by another subject resembling it in its properties and…

One who analyzes; formerly, one skilled in algebraical geometry; now commonly, one skilled in chemical analysis.

A writer of annals.

A writer of annotations; a commentator.

A writer or utterer of aphorisms.

The writer of the Apocalypse.

A figure of speech by which the orator or writer suddenly breaks off from the previous method of his discourse, and addresses, in the…

To come before the public; as, a great writer appeared at that time.

Given to argument; characterized by argument; disputatious; as, an argumentative writer.

Disbelieving the existence of a God; impious; godless; -- applied to persons; as, an atheistic writer.

Of approved authority; true; trustworthy; credible; as, an authentic writer; an authentic portrait; authentic information.

A botanist.

A genus (Orobanche) of parasitic plants of Europe and Asia. They are destitute of chlorophyll, have scales instead of leaves, and spik…

Having the petals and stamens adnate to the calyx; -- applied to a subclass of dicotyledonous plants in the system of the French botan…

pronouns and verbs used to refer to the speaker or writer of the language in which they occur