silver tree (silvertre)

1. See Leucaden simblot samarra, çamarra, a shepherd's coat of sheepskin, Sp. zamarro, a sheepskin; said to be of Basque origin.] A loose, light robe, worn by women: only in poetical use, without precise dron. Also silver- boom.-2. An Australian for meaning. est-tree, Tarrietia Argyrodendron . silver-vine (silver-vin), n. See Scindapsus . silverware (silver-war), n. Collectively, man- ufactures of silver; especially, articles for the table or other domestic use made of silver. silver-washed (silver-wosht), a. Colored as if washed over with silver; frosted; hoary; pru- inose: as, the silver - washed fritillary, Argynnis paphia , a British butterfly. silverweed (silver-wed), n. 1. A plant, Po- tentilla An serin a , having pinnate leaves covered beneath with silvery-silky down. It is a tufted her be emitting runners which root at the nodes and send up peduncles bearing a single yellow flower. It com- mon in the northern Old World, and is found in marshes, on river-banks, etc., northward in North America. 2. A plant of the convolvulaceous genus Argy- rei a , containing some 30 chiefly East Indian and Malayan species. They are climbing or rarely almost erect shrubs, bearing showy purple or rose-colored flowers with funnel-shaped corolla, and having the foliage often white-pubescent beneath. silver-white (silver-hwit), n. A very pure form of white lead. Also called Chinese white and Kremnitz white. silver-witch (silver-wich), n. IMG:content-1079.png:[blocks in formation] cinalis; cf. Simaba.] Agenus of polypetalous trees type of the order Simaruba ceæ and tribe Simarubeæ. lypetalous trees, It is characterized by diœcio us flowers with a small five-lobed calyx, five petals surrounding a hemispherical and villous disk which bears ten stamens, or a deeply five-parted ovary with a single short style, a broad five lobed stigma, and five solitary ovules. It is closely allied to the well-known genus Ailantus, but distinguished by a fruit of one to five se ile spreading drupes instead of as many thin wing-fruits. There are 3 or 4 species, natives of eastern parts of tropical America, for which see mountain - dam son, Qua ia, paraiba, and para dise - tree. They bear alternate and abruptly pinnate leaves, with entire coriaceous leaflets, and small flowers in axillary and terminal elongated branching panicles. Branch of Simaruba amara , with female flowers. a, a male flower; b, a female flower. Sima rubaceæ (sim"a-rö-bā'sē-ē), n. pl. [NL. (L. C. Richard, 1808), sprinkled, covered with, or containing silver.- by the usual presence of alternate leaves with 2. Having the qualities, or some of the qualities, of silver. Especially-(a) Having the lustrous whitene of silver. (6) Having a soft and musical sound, color; shining-white or hoary; frosted; pruinose. (d) In as that attributed to silver bells. (c) In zoöl., of a silvery bot., bluish-white or gray with a metallic luster.- Silvery-arches, a British night-moth, Aplecta tinct a.Silvery gade, the mackerel-midge. - Silvery gibbon, wou-wou, Hylobates leuciscus. - Silvery gull. as herring- gull.-Silvery hairtail, mullet, shrewmole, etc. See the nouns. - Silvery thistle. Same as silver - thistle . silvestrite (sil-ves'trīt), n. See sider azote . Silvia, n. See Sylvia . Cuvier , 1800. IMG:content-1080.jpg:[blocks in formation]