Helen Fenton

Buckwheat: Definition and part of speech

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Buckwheat

  1. n. The triangular seed used, when ground, for griddle cakes, etc.
  2. n. A plant (Fagopyrum esculentum) of the Polygonum family, the seed of which is used for food.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Bucolic: Definition and part of speech

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Bucolic

  1. n. A pastoral poem, representing rural affairs, and the life, manners, and occupation of shepherds; as, the Bucolics of Theocritus and Virgil.
  2. a. Of or pertaining to the life and occupation of a shepherd; pastoral; rustic.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Bud: Definition and part of speech

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Bud

  1. n. A small protuberance on certain low forms of animals and vegetables which develops into a new organism, either free or attached. See Hydra.
  2. n. A small protuberance on the stem or branches of a plant, containing the rudiments of future leaves, flowers, or stems; an undeveloped branch or flower.
  3. v. i. To begin to grow, or to issue from a stock in the manner of a bud, as a horn.
  4. v. i. To be like a bud in respect to youth and freshness, or growth and promise; as, a budding virgin.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Budding: Definition and part of speech

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Budding

  1. p. pr. & vb. n. of Bud
  2. n. The act or process of producing buds.
  3. n. A process of asexual reproduction, in which a new organism or cell is formed by a protrusion of a portion of the animal or vegetable organism, the bud thus formed sometimes remaining attached to the parent stalk or cell, at other times becoming free; gemmation. See Hydroidea.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Buddha: Definition and part of speech

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Buddha

  1. n. The title of an incarnation of self-abnegation, virtue, and wisdom, or a deified religious teacher of the Buddhists, esp. Gautama Siddartha or Sakya Sinha (or Muni), the founder of Buddhism.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.