Amarantaceous: Definition and part of speech

Amarantaceous

a. Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the family of plants of which the amaranth is the type.

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.

v. t. / i. To amalgamate.
n. An alloy of mercury with another metal or metals; as, an amalgam of tin, bismuth, etc.
n. A mixture or compound of different things.
n. A native compound of mercury and silver.

n. A small depression, sac, or vesicle, as the socket of a tooth, the air cells of the lungs, the ultimate saccules of glands, etc.
n. A cell in a honeycomb.
n. A small cavity in a coral, shell, or fossil

a. Alt. of Amalgamated
v. t. To compound or mix, as quicksilver, with another metal; to unite, combine, or alloy with mercury.
v. t. To mix, so as to make a uniform compound; to unite or combine; as, to amalgamate two races; to amalgamate one race with another.
v. i. To unite in an amalgam; to blend with another metal, as quicksilver.
v. i. To coalesce, as a result of growth; to combine into a uniform whole; to blend; as, two organs or parts amalgamate.

n. The mixing or blending of different elements, races, societies, etc.; also, the result of such combination or blending; a homogeneous union.
n. The act or operation of compounding mercury with another metal; — applied particularly to the process of separating gold and silver from their ores by mixing them with mercury.