n. 1. 1 genus of evergreen trees or shrubs with white funnel-shaped flowers and milky sap; tropical Africa to southeast Asia and Polynesia.
Syn. -- genus Alstonia. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Gr. katatonos, stretching down, depressed, fr. kata` down + to`nos stretching, straining, tone (sound). Stedman. ] (Psychiatry) an abnormal behavioral syndrome characterized by stupor, negativism, and muscular rigidity, sometimes alternating with purposeless excitement, and seen most frequently in schizophrenia; called also catatonic schizophrenia. [ PJC ]

a. [ L. Catonionus. ] Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the stern old Roman, Cato the Censor; severe; inflexible. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖prop. n. [ Named after Dr. John Clayton, an American botanist. ] (Bot.) An American genus of perennial herbs with delicate blossoms; -- sometimes called spring beauty. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. any temperate liliaceous plant of the genus Clintonia having broad basal leaves and white or yellowish or purplish flowers followed by blue or black berries.
Syn. -- Clinton's lily. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. One afflicted with color blindness. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL. Named after Dr. William Darlington, a botanist of West Chester, Penn. ] (Bot.) A genus of California pitcher plants consisting of a single species. The long tubular leaves are hooded at the top, and frequently contain many insects drowned in the secretion of the leaves. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. the type genus, coextensive with the family Daubentoniidae.
Syn. -- genus Daubentonia. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. of or pertaining to Estonia. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a native or inhabitant of Estonia. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. A genus of aquatic herbs.
Syn. -- genus Hottonia. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖n. [ NL. So named after Dr. William Houston, an English surgeon and botanist. ] (Bot.) A genus of small rubiaceous herbs, having tetramerous salveform blue or white flower. There are about twenty species, natives of North America. Also, a plant of this genus. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. Relating to what is now called the Plutonic theory of the earth, first advanced by Dr. James Hutton. Lyell. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. a. Miltonic. Lowell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Eccl. Hist.) One of an extinct sect, named after Ludovic Muggleton, an English journeyman tailor, who (about 1657) claimed to be inspired. Eadie. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to Sir Isaac Newton, or his discoveries. [ 1913 Webster ]

Newtonian philosophy, the philosophy of Sir Isaac Newton; -- applied to the doctrine of the universe as expounded in Newton's “Principia, ” to the modern or experimental philosophy (as opposed to the theories of Descartes and others), and, most frequently, to the mathematical theory of universal gravitation. --
Newtonian telescope (Astron.), a reflecting telescope, in which rays from the large speculum are received by a plane mirror placed diagonally in the axis, and near the open end of the tube, and thrown at right angles toward one side of the tube, where the image is formed and viewed through the eyeplace. --
Newtonian theory of light. See Note under Light. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A follower of Newton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. Plutonius, Gr. &unr_;: cf. F. plutonien. ] Plutonic. Poe. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Geol.) A Plutonist. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Pertaining to, or characteristic of, George Washington; as, a Washingtonian policy. Lowell. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Designating, or pertaining to, a temperance society and movement started in Baltimore in 1840 on the principle of total abstinence. -- n. A member of the Washingtonian Society. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ NL. So named after the Duke of Wellington. ] (Bot.) A name given to the “big trees” (Sequoia gigantea) of California, and still used in England. See Sequoia. [ 1913 Webster ]