(botany) a living organism lacking the power of locomotion

resembling or made of or suggestive of flowers

attack someone physically or emotionally

someone who attacks

completely wanting or lacking

a state without friends or money or prospects

seeming unaffected by pleasure or pain; impassive

an indifference to pleasure or pain

a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves)

a mobile mass of muscular tissue covered with mucous membrane and located in the oral cavity

consisting of or related to language

of the same period

characteristic of the present

abusive or venomous language used to express blame or censure or bitter deep-seated ill will

of a substance, especially a strong acid; capable of destroying or eating away by chemical action

without prior preparation

with little or no preparation or forethought

cease an action temporarily

stopping and starting at irregular intervals

the quality of being intermittent; subject to interruption or periodic stopping