| appearance | 1. The act of appearing or coming into sight; the act of becoming visible to the eye; as, his sudden appearance surprised me. 2. A thing seed; a phenomenon; a phase; an apparition; as, an appearance in the sky. 3. Personal presence; exhibition of the person; look; aspect; mien. "And now am come to see . . . It thy appearance answer loud report." (Milton) 4. Semblance, or apparent likeness; external show. Outward signs, or circumstances, fitted to make a particular impression or to determine the judgment as to the character of a person or a thing, an act or a state; as, appearances are against him. " There was upon the tabernacle, as it were, the appearance of fire." (Num. Ix. 15) "For man looketh on the outward appearance." (1 Sam. Xvi. 7) "Judge not according to the appearance." (John. Vii. 24) 5. The act of appearing in a particular place, or in society, a company, or any proceedings; a coming before the public in a particular character; as, a person makes his appearance as an historian, an artist, or an orator. "Will he now retire, After appearance, and again prolong Our expectation?" (Milton) 6. Probability; likelihood. "There is that which hath no appearance." (Bacon) 7. The coming into court of either of the parties; the being present in court; the coming into court of a party summoned in an action, either by himself or by his attorney, expressed by a formal entry by the proper officer to that effect; the act or proceeding by which a party proceeded against places himself before the court, and submits to its jurisdiction. To put in an appearance, to be present; to appear in person. To save appearances, to preserve a fair outward show. Synonym: Coming, arrival, presence, semblance, pretense, air, look, manner, mien, figure, aspect. Origin: F. Apparence, L. Apparentia, fr. Apparere. See Appear. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| leafless | Having no leaves or foliage; bearing no foliage. "Leafless groves." . Leaflessness, Leafless plants, plants having no foliage, though leaves may be present in the form of scales and bracts. See Leaf, 1 and 2. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| amber tree | A species of Anthospermum, a shrub with evergreen leaves, which, when bruised, emit a fragrant odour. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| bay tree | A species of laurel. (Laurus nobilis). Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| beam tree | <botany> A tree (Pyrus aria) related to the apple. Origin: AS. Beam a tree. See: Beam. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| beech tree | The beech. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| bo tree | <botany> The peepul tree; especially, the very ancient tree standing at Anurajahpoora in Ceylon, grown from a slip of the tree under which Gautama is said to have received the heavenly light and so to have become Buddha. "The sacred bo tree of the Buddhists (Ficus religiosa), which is planted close to every temple, and attracts almost as much veneration as the status of the god himself. . . . It differs from the banyan (Ficus Indica) by sending down no roots from its branches." (Tennent) Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| bully tree | <botany> The name of several West Indian trees of the order Sapotaceae, as Dipholis nigra and species of Sapota and Mimusops. most of them yield a substance closely resembling gutta-percha. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| cabbage tree | The bark of Andira inermis, a leguminous tree of tropical America, used as an emetic, purgative, and anthelmintic. Synonym: cabbage tree, worm bark. Origin: West Indian native name (05 Mar 2000) |
| galapee tree | <botany> The West Indian Sciadophyllum Brownei, a tree with very large digitate leaves. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| mahwa tree | <botany> An East Indian sapotaceous tree (Bassia latifolia, and also B. Butyracea), whose timber is used for wagon wheels, and the flowers for food and in preparing an intoxicating drink. It is one of the butter trees. The oil, known as mahwa and yallah, is obtained from the kernels of the fruit. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| gatten tree | <botany> A name given to the small trees called guelder-rose (Viburnum Opulus), cornel (Cornus sanguinea), and spindle tree (Euonymus Europaeus). Origin: Cf. Prov. E. Gatter bush. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| peepul tree | <botany> A sacred tree (Ficus religiosa) of the Buddhists, a kind of fig tree which attains great size and venerable age. See Bo tree. Alternative forms: pippul tree, and pipal tree. Origin: Hind. Pipal, Skr. Pippala. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| gourd tree | <botany> A tree (the Crescentia Cujete, or calabash tree) of the West Indies and Central America. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| grass tree | <botany> An Australian plant of the genus Xanthorrhoea, having a thick trunk crowned with a dense tuft of pendulous, grasslike leaves, from the center of which arises a long stem, bearing at its summit a dense flower spike looking somewhat like a large cat-tail. These plants are often called "blackboys" from the large trunks denuded and blackened by fire. They yield two kinds of fragrant resin, called Botany-bay gum, and Gum Acaroides. A similar Australian plant (Kingia australis). Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |