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flinders
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Flinders
(gcide) | Flinders \Flin"ders\, n. pl. [Scot. flenders, flendris; perh.
akin to E. flutter; cf. D. flenters rags, broken pieces.]
Small pieces or splinters; fragments.
[1913 Webster]
The tough ash spear, so stout and true,
Into a thousand flinders flew. --Sir W.
Scott.
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flinders
(wn) | Flinders
n 1: British explorer who mapped the Australian coast
(1774-1814) [syn: Flinders, Matthew Flinders, {Sir
Matthew Flinders}]
2: bits and splinters and fragments; "it would have shattered in
flinders long before it did that damage" |
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flinders
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Flindersia
(gcide) | Flindersia \Flindersia\ n.
A small genus of Australian timber trees.
Syn: genus Flindersia.
[WordNet 1.5] flindosa |
Flindersia australis
(gcide) | flindosa \flindosa\, flindosy \flindosy\n.
A tall Australian timber tree (Flindersia australis)
yielding tough hard wood used for staves etc.
Syn: native beech, flindosy, Flindersia australis.
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Flindersia maculosa
(gcide) | Spotted \Spot"ted\, a.
Marked with spots; as, a spotted garment or character. "The
spotted panther." --Spenser.
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Spotted fever (Med.), a name applied to various eruptive
fevers, esp. to typhus fever and cerebro-spinal
meningitis.
Spotted tree (Bot.), an Australian tree ({Flindersia
maculosa}); -- so called because its bark falls off in
spots.
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Flindersia Oxleyana
(gcide) | Yellowwood \Yel"low*wood`\, n. (Bot.)
The wood of any one of several different kinds of trees;
also, any one of the trees themselves. Among the trees so
called are the Cladrastis tinctoria, an American leguminous
tree; the several species of prickly ash (Xanthoxylum); the
Australian Flindersia Oxleyana, a tree related to the
mahogany; certain South African species of Podocarpus,
trees related to the yew; the East Indian {Podocarpus
latifolia}; and the true satinwood (Chloroxylon Swietenia).
All these Old World trees furnish valuable timber.
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Flindersia schottiana
(gcide) | bunji-bunji \bunji-bunji\ n.
an Australian timber tree (Flindersia schottiana) whose
bark yields a poison.
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flinders
(wn) | Flinders
n 1: British explorer who mapped the Australian coast
(1774-1814) [syn: Flinders, Matthew Flinders, {Sir
Matthew Flinders}]
2: bits and splinters and fragments; "it would have shattered in
flinders long before it did that damage" |
flindersia
(wn) | Flindersia
n 1: small genus of Australian timber trees [syn: Flindersia,
genus Flindersia] |
flindersia australis
(wn) | Flindersia australis
n 1: tall Australian timber tree yielding tough hard wood used
for staves etc [syn: native beech, flindosa,
flindosy, Flindersia australis] |
flindersia schottiana
(wn) | Flindersia schottiana
n 1: Australian timber tree whose bark yields a poison [syn:
bunji-bunji, Flindersia schottiana] |
genus flindersia
(wn) | genus Flindersia
n 1: small genus of Australian timber trees [syn: Flindersia,
genus Flindersia] |
matthew flinders
(wn) | Matthew Flinders
n 1: British explorer who mapped the Australian coast
(1774-1814) [syn: Flinders, Matthew Flinders, {Sir
Matthew Flinders}] |
sir matthew flinders
(wn) | Sir Matthew Flinders
n 1: British explorer who mapped the Australian coast
(1774-1814) [syn: Flinders, Matthew Flinders, {Sir
Matthew Flinders}] |
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