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bony
(encz) | bony,kostnatý adj: Zdeněk Brož |
Bony
(gcide) | Bony \Bon"y\ (b[=o]"n[y^]), a.
1. Consisting of bone, or of bones; full of bones; pertaining
to bones.
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2. Having large or prominent bones.
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Bony fish (Zool.), the menhaden.
Bony pike (Zool.), the gar pike (Lepidosteus).
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bony
(wn) | bony
adj 1: very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold;
"emaciated bony hands"; "a nightmare population of gaunt
men and skeletal boys"; "eyes were haggard and
cavernous"; "small pinched faces"; "kept life in his
wasted frame only by grim concentration" [syn: bony,
cadaverous, emaciated, gaunt, haggard, pinched,
skeletal, wasted]
2: composed of or containing bone; "osseous tissue" [syn:
osseous, osteal, bony]
3: having bones especially many or prominent bones; "a bony shad
fillet"; "her bony wrist"; "bony fish" [syn: bony, boney]
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bony
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carbonyl
(encz) | carbonyl,karbonyl n: Zdeněk Brož |
carbonyl chloride
(encz) | carbonyl chloride,karbonylchlorid [eko.] RNDr. Pavel Piskač |
carbonyl group
(encz) | carbonyl group, n: |
carbonylic
(encz) | carbonylic, adj: |
ebony
(encz) | ebony,eben n: dřevo |
ebony family
(encz) | ebony family, n: |
ebony spleenwort
(encz) | ebony spleenwort, n: |
little ebony spleenwort
(encz) | little ebony spleenwort, n: |
mountain ebony
(encz) | mountain ebony, n: |
ribbony
(encz) | ribbony, adj: |
karbonyl
(czen) | karbonyl,carbonyln: Zdeněk Brož |
karbonylchlorid
(czen) | karbonylchlorid,carbonyl chloride[eko.] RNDr. Pavel Piskač |
bony fish
(gcide) | menhaden \men*ha"den\, n. (Zool.)
An American marine fish (Brevoortia tyrannus) of the
Herring family (Clupeidae), chiefly valuable for its oil
and as a component of fertilizers; -- called also
mossbunker, bony fish, chebog, pogy, hardhead,
whitefish, etc.
[1913 Webster]Bony \Bon"y\ (b[=o]"n[y^]), a.
1. Consisting of bone, or of bones; full of bones; pertaining
to bones.
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2. Having large or prominent bones.
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Bony fish (Zool.), the menhaden.
Bony pike (Zool.), the gar pike (Lepidosteus).
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Bony fish
(gcide) | menhaden \men*ha"den\, n. (Zool.)
An American marine fish (Brevoortia tyrannus) of the
Herring family (Clupeidae), chiefly valuable for its oil
and as a component of fertilizers; -- called also
mossbunker, bony fish, chebog, pogy, hardhead,
whitefish, etc.
[1913 Webster]Bony \Bon"y\ (b[=o]"n[y^]), a.
1. Consisting of bone, or of bones; full of bones; pertaining
to bones.
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2. Having large or prominent bones.
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Bony fish (Zool.), the menhaden.
Bony pike (Zool.), the gar pike (Lepidosteus).
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Bony pike
(gcide) | Bony \Bon"y\ (b[=o]"n[y^]), a.
1. Consisting of bone, or of bones; full of bones; pertaining
to bones.
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2. Having large or prominent bones.
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Bony fish (Zool.), the menhaden.
Bony pike (Zool.), the gar pike (Lepidosteus).
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carbonyl
(gcide) | Oxalyl \Ox"a*lyl\, n. [Oxalic + -yl.] (Chem.)
(a) A hydrocarbon radical (C2O2) regarded as a residue of
oxalic acid and occurring in derivatives of it.
(b) An old name for carbonyl.
(c) An old name for carboxyl.
[1913 Webster]Carbonyl \Car"bon*yl\, n. [Carbon + -yl.] (Chem.)
The radical (=CO), occuring, always combined, in many
compounds, as the aldehydes, the ketones, urea, carbonyl
chloride, etc.
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Note: Though denoted by a formula identical with that of
carbon monoxide, it is chemically distinct, as carbon
seems to be divalent in carbon monoxide, but
tetravalent in carbonyl compounds.
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Carbonyl chloride (Chem.), a colorless gas, COCl2, of
offensive odor, and easily condensable to liquid. It is
formed from chlorine and carbon monoxide, under the
influence of light, and hence has been called phosgene,
or phosgene gas; -- called also carbon oxychloride. It
is used in chemical synthesis, and was also used as a
poison gas in World War I.
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Carbonyl
(gcide) | Oxalyl \Ox"a*lyl\, n. [Oxalic + -yl.] (Chem.)
(a) A hydrocarbon radical (C2O2) regarded as a residue of
oxalic acid and occurring in derivatives of it.
(b) An old name for carbonyl.
(c) An old name for carboxyl.
[1913 Webster]Carbonyl \Car"bon*yl\, n. [Carbon + -yl.] (Chem.)
The radical (=CO), occuring, always combined, in many
compounds, as the aldehydes, the ketones, urea, carbonyl
chloride, etc.
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Note: Though denoted by a formula identical with that of
carbon monoxide, it is chemically distinct, as carbon
seems to be divalent in carbon monoxide, but
tetravalent in carbonyl compounds.
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Carbonyl chloride (Chem.), a colorless gas, COCl2, of
offensive odor, and easily condensable to liquid. It is
formed from chlorine and carbon monoxide, under the
influence of light, and hence has been called phosgene,
or phosgene gas; -- called also carbon oxychloride. It
is used in chemical synthesis, and was also used as a
poison gas in World War I.
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Carbonyl chloride
(gcide) | Carbonyl \Car"bon*yl\, n. [Carbon + -yl.] (Chem.)
The radical (=CO), occuring, always combined, in many
compounds, as the aldehydes, the ketones, urea, carbonyl
chloride, etc.
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Note: Though denoted by a formula identical with that of
carbon monoxide, it is chemically distinct, as carbon
seems to be divalent in carbon monoxide, but
tetravalent in carbonyl compounds.
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Carbonyl chloride (Chem.), a colorless gas, COCl2, of
offensive odor, and easily condensable to liquid. It is
formed from chlorine and carbon monoxide, under the
influence of light, and hence has been called phosgene,
or phosgene gas; -- called also carbon oxychloride. It
is used in chemical synthesis, and was also used as a
poison gas in World War I.
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carbonyl choride
(gcide) | phosgene \phos"gene\ (f[o^]s"j[=e]n or f[o^]z"j[=e]n), n.
(Chem.)
A reactive chemical substance (COCl2), also called
carbonyl choride, used in synthesis of numerous substances.
In the First World War it was also used as a poisonous gas in
combat.
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Ebony
(gcide) | Ebony \Eb"on*y\, n.; pl. Ebonies. [F. ['e]b[`e]ne, L. ebenus,
fr. Gr. ?; prob. of Semitic origin; cf. Heb. hobn[imac]m, pl.
Cf. Ebon.]
A hard, heavy, and durable wood, which admits of a fine
polish or gloss. The usual color is black, but it also occurs
red or green.
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Note: The finest black ebony is the heartwood of {Diospyros
reticulata}, of the Mauritius. Other species of the
same genus (D. Ebenum, Melanoxylon, etc.), furnish
the ebony of the East Indies and Ceylon. The West
Indian green ebony is from a leguminous tree ({Brya
Ebenus}), and from the Exc[ae]caria glandulosa.
[1913 Webster]Ebony \Eb"on*y\, a.
Made of ebony, or resembling ebony; black; as, an ebony
countenance.
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This ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling.
--Poe.
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Green ebony
(gcide) | Green \Green\ (gr[=e]n), a. [Compar. Greener (gr[=e]n"[~e]r);
superl. Greenest.] [OE. grene, AS. gr[=e]ne; akin to D.
groen, OS. gr[=o]ni, OHG. gruoni, G. gr["u]n, Dan. & Sw.
gr["o]n, Icel. gr[ae]nn; fr. the root of E. grow. See
Grow.]
1. Having the color of grass when fresh and growing;
resembling that color of the solar spectrum which is
between the yellow and the blue; verdant; emerald.
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2. Having a sickly color; wan.
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To look so green and pale. --Shak.
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3. Full of life and vigor; fresh and vigorous; new; recent;
as, a green manhood; a green wound.
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As valid against such an old and beneficent
government as against . . . the greenest usurpation.
--Burke.
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4. Not ripe; immature; not fully grown or ripened; as, green
fruit, corn, vegetables, etc.
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5. Not roasted; half raw. [R.]
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We say the meat is green when half roasted. --L.
Watts.
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6. Immature in age, judgment, or experience; inexperienced;
young; raw; not trained; awkward; as, green in years or
judgment.
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I might be angry with the officious zeal which
supposes that its green conceptions can instruct my
gray hairs. --Sir W.
Scott.
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7. Not seasoned; not dry; containing its natural juices; as,
green wood, timber, etc. --Shak.
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8. (Politics) Concerned especially with protection of the
enviroment; -- of political parties and political
philosophies; as, the European green parties.
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Green brier (Bot.), a thorny climbing shrub ({Emilaz
rotundifolia}) having a yellowish green stem and thick
leaves, with small clusters of flowers, common in the
United States; -- called also cat brier.
Green con (Zool.), the pollock.
Green crab (Zool.), an edible, shore crab ({Carcinus
menas}) of Europe and America; -- in New England locally
named joe-rocker.
Green crop, a crop used for food while in a growing or
unripe state, as distingushed from a grain crop, root
crop, etc.
Green diallage. (Min.)
(a) Diallage, a variety of pyroxene.
(b) Smaragdite.
Green dragon (Bot.), a North American herbaceous plant
(Aris[ae]ma Dracontium), resembling the Indian turnip;
-- called also dragon root.
Green earth (Min.), a variety of glauconite, found in
cavities in amygdaloid and other eruptive rock, and used
as a pigment by artists; -- called also mountain green.
Green ebony.
(a) A south American tree (Jacaranda ovalifolia), having
a greenish wood, used for rulers, turned and inlaid
work, and in dyeing.
(b) The West Indian green ebony. See Ebony.
Green fire (Pyrotech.), a composition which burns with a
green flame. It consists of sulphur and potassium
chlorate, with some salt of barium (usually the nitrate),
to which the color of the flame is due.
Green fly (Zool.), any green species of plant lice or
aphids, esp. those that infest greenhouse plants.
Green gage, (Bot.) See Greengage, in the Vocabulary.
Green gland (Zool.), one of a pair of large green glands in
Crustacea, supposed to serve as kidneys. They have their
outlets at the bases of the larger antenn[ae].
Green hand, a novice. [Colloq.]
Green heart (Bot.), the wood of a lauraceous tree found in
the West Indies and in South America, used for
shipbuilding or turnery. The green heart of Jamaica and
Guiana is the Nectandra Rodi[oe]i, that of Martinique is
the Colubrina ferruginosa.
Green iron ore (Min.) dufrenite.
Green laver (Bot.), an edible seaweed (Ulva latissima);
-- called also green sloke.
Green lead ore (Min.), pyromorphite.
Green linnet (Zool.), the greenfinch.
Green looper (Zool.), the cankerworm.
Green marble (Min.), serpentine.
Green mineral, a carbonate of copper, used as a pigment.
See Greengill.
Green monkey (Zool.) a West African long-tailed monkey
(Cercopithecus callitrichus), very commonly tamed, and
trained to perform tricks. It was introduced into the West
Indies early in the last century, and has become very
abundant there.
Green salt of Magnus (Old Chem.), a dark green crystalline
salt, consisting of ammonia united with certain chlorides
of platinum.
Green sand (Founding) molding sand used for a mold while
slightly damp, and not dried before the cast is made.
Green sea (Naut.), a wave that breaks in a solid mass on a
vessel's deck.
Green sickness (Med.), chlorosis.
Green snake (Zool.), one of two harmless American snakes
(Cyclophis vernalis, and C. [ae]stivus). They are
bright green in color.
Green turtle (Zool.), an edible marine turtle. See
Turtle.
Green vitriol.
(a) (Chem.) Sulphate of iron; a light green crystalline
substance, very extensively used in the preparation of
inks, dyes, mordants, etc.
(b) (Min.) Same as copperas, melanterite and {sulphate
of iron}.
Green ware, articles of pottery molded and shaped, but not
yet baked.
Green woodpecker (Zool.), a common European woodpecker
(Picus viridis); -- called also yaffle.
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Mountain ebony
(gcide) | Mountain \Moun"tain\ (moun"t[i^]n), a.
1. Of or pertaining to a mountain or mountains; growing or
living on a mountain; found on or peculiar to mountains;
among mountains; as, a mountain torrent; mountain pines;
mountain goats; mountain air; mountain howitzer.
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2. Like a mountain; mountainous; vast; very great.
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The high, the mountain majesty of worth. --Byron.
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Mountain antelope (Zool.), the goral.
Mountain ash (Bot.), an ornamental tree, the {Pyrus
Americana} (or Sorbus Americana), producing beautiful
bunches of red berries. Its leaves are pinnate, and its
flowers white, growing in fragrant clusters. The European
species is the Pyrus aucuparia, or rowan tree.
Mountain barometer, a portable barometer, adapted for safe
transportation, used in measuring the heights of
mountains.
Mountain beaver (Zool.), the sewellel.
Mountain blue (Min.), blue carbonate of copper; azurite.
Mountain cat (Zool.), the catamount. See Catamount.
Mountain chain, a series of contiguous mountain ranges,
generally in parallel or consecutive lines or curves.
Mountain cock (Zool.), capercailzie. See Capercailzie.
Mountain cork (Min.), a variety of asbestus, resembling
cork in its texture.
Mountain crystal. See under Crystal.
Mountain damson (Bot.), a large tree of the genus
Simaruba (Simaruba amarga) growing in the West Indies,
which affords a bitter tonic and astringent, sometimes
used in medicine.
Mountain dew, Scotch whisky, so called because often
illicitly distilled among the mountains. [Humorous]
Mountain ebony (Bot.), a small leguminous tree ({Bauhinia
variegata}) of the East and West Indies; -- so called
because of its dark wood. The bark is used medicinally and
in tanning.
Mountain flax (Min.), a variety of asbestus, having very
fine fibers; amianthus. See Amianthus.
Mountain fringe (Bot.), climbing fumitory. See under
Fumitory.
Mountain goat. (Zool.) See Mazama.
Mountain green. (Min.)
(a) Green malachite, or carbonate of copper.
(b) See Green earth, under Green, a.
Mountain holly (Bot.), a branching shrub ({Nemopanthes
Canadensis}), having smooth oblong leaves and red berries.
It is found in the Northern United States.
Mountain laurel (Bot.), an American shrub ({Kalmia
latifolia}) with glossy evergreen leaves and showy
clusters of rose-colored or white flowers. The foliage is
poisonous. Called also American laurel, ivy bush, and
calico bush. See Kalmia.
Mountain leather (Min.), a variety of asbestus, resembling
leather in its texture.
Mountain licorice (Bot.), a plant of the genus Trifolium
(Trifolium Alpinum).
Mountain limestone (Geol.), a series of marine limestone
strata below the coal measures, and above the old red
standstone of Great Britain. See Chart of Geology.
Mountain linnet (Zool.), the twite.
Mountain magpie. (Zool.)
(a) The yaffle, or green woodpecker.
(b) The European gray shrike.
Mountain mahogany (Bot.) See under Mahogany.
Mountain meal (Min.), a light powdery variety of calcite,
occurring as an efflorescence.
Mountain milk (Min.), a soft spongy variety of carbonate of
lime.
Mountain mint. (Bot.) See Mint.
Mountain ousel (Zool.), the ring ousel; -- called also
mountain thrush and mountain colley. See Ousel.
Mountain pride, or Mountain green (Bot.), a tree of
Jamaica (Spathelia simplex), which has an unbranched
palmlike stem, and a terminal cluster of large, pinnate
leaves.
Mountain quail (Zool.), the plumed partridge ({Oreortyx
pictus}) of California. It has two long, slender,
plumelike feathers on the head. The throat and sides are
chestnut; the belly is brown with transverse bars of black
and white; the neck and breast are dark gray.
Mountain range, a series of mountains closely related in
position and direction.
Mountain rice. (Bot.)
(a) An upland variety of rice, grown without irrigation,
in some parts of Asia, Europe, and the United States.
(b) An American genus of grasses (Oryzopsis).
Mountain rose (Bot.), a species of rose with solitary
flowers, growing in the mountains of Europe ({Rosa
alpina}).
Mountain soap (Min.), a soft earthy mineral, of a brownish
color, used in crayon painting; saxonite.
Mountain sorrel (Bot.), a low perennial plant ({Oxyria
digyna} with rounded kidney-form leaves, and small
greenish flowers, found in the White Mountains of New
Hampshire, and in high northern latitudes. --Gray.
Mountain sparrow (Zool.), the European tree sparrow.
Mountain spinach. (Bot.) See Orach.
Mountain tobacco (Bot.), a composite plant ({Arnica
montana}) of Europe; called also leopard's bane.
Mountain witch (Zool.), a ground pigeon of Jamaica, of the
genus Geotrygon.
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red ebony
(gcide) | Grenadillo \Gren`a*dil"lo\, n. [Sp. granadillo.]
A handsome tropical American wood, much used for making
flutes and other wind instruments; -- called also {Grenada
cocos}, or cocus, and red ebony.
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Tribonyx Mortierii
(gcide) | Native \Na"tive\ (n[=a]"t[i^]v), a. [F. natif, L. nativus, fr.
nasci, p. p. natus. See Nation, and cf. Na["i]ve, Neif
a serf.]
1. Arising by birth; having an origin; born. [Obs.]
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Anaximander's opinion is, that the gods are native,
rising and vanishing again in long periods of times.
--Cudworth.
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2. Of or pertaining to one's birth; natal; belonging to the
place or the circumstances in which one is born; --
opposed to foreign; as, native land, language, color,
etc.
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3. Born in the region in which one lives; as, a native
inhabitant, race; grown or originating in the region where
used or sold; not foreign or imported; as, native
oysters, or strawberries. In the latter sense, synonymous
with domestic.
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4. Original; constituting the original substance of anything;
as, native dust. --Milton.
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5. Conferred by birth; derived from origin; born with one;
inherent; inborn; not acquired; as, native genius,
cheerfulness, wit, simplicity, rights, intelligence, etc.
Having the same meaning as congenital, but typically
used for positive qualities, whereas congenital may be
used for negative qualities. See also congenital
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Courage is native to you. --Jowett
(Thucyd.).
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6. Naturally related; cognate; connected (with). [R.]
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the head is not more native to the heart, . . .
Than is the throne of Denmark to thy father. --Shak.
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7. (Min.)
(a) Found in nature uncombined with other elements; as,
native silver, copper, gold.
(b) Found in nature; not artificial; as native sodium
chloride.
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Native American party. See under American, a.
Native bear (Zool.), the koala.
Native bread (Bot.), a large underground fungus, of
Australia (Mylitta australis), somewhat resembling a
truffle, but much larger.
Native devil. (Zool.) Same as Tasmanian devil, under
Devil.
Native hen (Zool.), an Australian rail ({Tribonyx
Mortierii}).
Native pheasant. (Zool.) See Leipoa.
Native rabbit (Zool.), an Australian marsupial ({Perameles
lagotis}) resembling a rabbit in size and form.
Native sloth (Zool.), the koala.
Native thrush (Zool.), an Australian singing bird
(Pachycephala olivacea); -- called also thickhead.
Native turkey (Zool.), the Australian bustard ({Choriotis
australis}); -- called also bebilya.
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Syn: Natural; natal; original; congenital.
Usage: Native, Natural, Natal. natural refers to the
nature of a thing, or that which springs therefrom;
native, to one's birth or origin; as, a native
country, language, etc.; natal, to the circumstances
of one's birth; as, a natal day, or star. Native
talent is that which is inborn; natural talent is that
which springs from the structure of the mind. Native
eloquence is the result of strong innate emotion;
natural eloquence is opposed to that which is studied
or artificial.
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Tribonyx ventralis
(gcide) | Moor \Moor\, n. [OE. mor, AS. m[=o]r moor, morass; akin to D.
moer moor, G. moor, and prob. to Goth. marei sea, E. mere.
See Mere a lake.]
1. An extensive waste covered with patches of heath, and
having a poor, light soil, but sometimes marshy, and
abounding in peat; a heath.
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In her girlish age she kept sheep on the moor.
--Carew.
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2. A game preserve consisting of moorland.
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Moor buzzard (Zool.), the marsh harrier. [Prov. Eng.]
Moor coal (Geol.), a friable variety of lignite.
Moor cock (Zool.), the male of the moor fowl or red
grouse of Europe.
Moor coot. (Zool.) See Gallinule.
Moor game. (Zool.) Same as Moor fowl.
Moor grass (Bot.), a tufted perennial grass ({Sesleria
caerulea}), found in mountain pastures of Europe.
Moor hawk (Zool.), the marsh harrier.
Moor hen. (Zool.)
(a) The female of the moor fowl.
(b) A gallinule, esp. the European species. See
Gallinule.
(c) An Australian rail (Tribonyx ventralis).
Moor monkey (Zool.), the black macaque of Borneo ({Macacus
maurus}).
Moor titling (Zool.), the European stonechat ({Pratinocola
rubicola}).
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australian bonytongue
(wn) | Australian bonytongue
n 1: a species of large fish found in Australian rivers [syn:
Australian bonytongue, northern barramundi,
Scleropages jardinii] |
bony
(wn) | bony
adj 1: very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold;
"emaciated bony hands"; "a nightmare population of gaunt
men and skeletal boys"; "eyes were haggard and
cavernous"; "small pinched faces"; "kept life in his
wasted frame only by grim concentration" [syn: bony,
cadaverous, emaciated, gaunt, haggard, pinched,
skeletal, wasted]
2: composed of or containing bone; "osseous tissue" [syn:
osseous, osteal, bony]
3: having bones especially many or prominent bones; "a bony shad
fillet"; "her bony wrist"; "bony fish" [syn: bony, boney]
[ant: boneless] |
bony fish
(wn) | bony fish
n 1: any fish of the class Osteichthyes |
bony labyrinth
(wn) | bony labyrinth
n 1: cavity in the petrous part of the temporal bone that
contains the membranous labyrinth [syn: bony labyrinth,
osseous labyrinth] |
bony-plated
(wn) | bony-plated
adj 1: covered with bony plates |
bonyness
(wn) | bonyness
n 1: extreme leanness (usually caused by starvation or disease)
[syn: bonyness, boniness, emaciation, gauntness,
maceration] |
carbonyl
(wn) | carbonyl
adj 1: relating to or containing the carbonyl group [syn:
carbonyl, carbonylic]
n 1: a compound containing metal combined with carbon monoxide |
carbonyl group
(wn) | carbonyl group
n 1: the bivalent radical CO |
carbonylic
(wn) | carbonylic
adj 1: relating to or containing the carbonyl group [syn:
carbonyl, carbonylic] |
ebony
(wn) | ebony
adj 1: of a very dark black [syn: ebon, ebony]
n 1: a very dark black [syn: coal black, ebony, jet black,
pitch black, sable, soot black]
2: hard dark-colored heartwood of the ebony tree; used in
cabinetwork and for piano keys
3: tropical tree of southern Asia having hard dark-colored
heartwood used in cabinetwork [syn: ebony, ebony tree,
Diospyros ebenum] |
ebony family
(wn) | ebony family
n 1: fruit and timber trees of tropical and warm regions
including ebony and persimmon [syn: Ebenaceae, {family
Ebenaceae}, ebony family] |
ebony spleenwort
(wn) | ebony spleenwort
n 1: common North American fern with polished black stripes
[syn: ebony spleenwort, Scott's Spleenwort, {Asplenium
platyneuron}] |
ebony tree
(wn) | ebony tree
n 1: tropical tree of southern Asia having hard dark-colored
heartwood used in cabinetwork [syn: ebony, ebony tree,
Diospyros ebenum] |
little ebony spleenwort
(wn) | little ebony spleenwort
n 1: fern of tropical America: from southern United States to
West Indies and Mexico to Brazil [syn: {black-stem
spleenwort}, black-stemmed spleenwort, {little ebony
spleenwort}] |
mountain ebony
(wn) | mountain ebony
n 1: small East Indian tree having orchid-like flowers and hard
dark wood [syn: mountain ebony, orchid tree, {Bauhinia
variegata}] |
ribbony
(wn) | ribbony
adj 1: long and thin; resembling a ribbon; "ribbonlike noodles"
[syn: ribbonlike, ribbony] |
spotted bonytongue
(wn) | spotted bonytongue
n 1: a species of large fish found in Australian rivers [syn:
Australian arowana, Dawson River salmon, saratoga,
spotted barramundi, spotted bonytongue, {Scleropages
leichardti}] |
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