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Ursuline
- - One of an order of nuns founded by St. Angela Merici, at Brescia, in Italy, about the year 1537, and so called from St. Ursula, under whose protection it was placed. The order was introduced into Canada as early as 1639, and into the United States in 1727. The members are devoted entirely to education.
Ustilago
- noun - type genus of the Ustilaginaceae; genus comprising the loose smuts
Ustulate
- - Blackened as if burned.
Valylene
- - A volatile liquid hydrocarbon, C5H6, related to ethylene and acetylene, but possessing the property of unsaturation in the third degree. It is the only known member of a distinct series of compounds. It has a garlic odor.
Vamplate
- - A round plate of iron on the shaft of a tilting spear, to protect the hand.
Vanillas
- noun - a distinctive fragrant flavor characteristic of vanilla beans
- a flavoring prepared from vanilla beans macerated in alcohol (or imitating vanilla beans)
- any of numerous climbing plants of the genus Vanilla having fleshy leaves and clusters of large waxy highly fragrant white or green or topaz flowers
Vanillic
- - Pertaining to, or derived from, vanilla or vanillin; resembling vanillin; specifically, designating an alcohol and an acid respectively, vanillin being the intermediate aldehyde.
Vanillin
- noun - a crystalline compound found in vanilla beans and some balsam resins; used in perfumes and flavorings
Vanillyl
- - The hypothetical radical characteristic of vanillic alcohol.