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Bidens bipinnata
(gcide) | Spanish \Span"ish\, a.
Of or pertaining to Spain or the Spaniards.
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Spanish bayonet (Bot.), a liliaceous plant ({Yucca
alorifolia}) with rigid spine-tipped leaves. The name is
also applied to other similar plants of the Southwestern
United States and mexico. Called also Spanish daggers.
Spanish bean (Bot.) See the Note under Bean.
Spanish black, a black pigment obtained by charring cork.
--Ure.
Spanish broom (Bot.), a leguminous shrub ({Spartium
junceum}) having many green flexible rushlike twigs.
Spanish brown, a species of earth used in painting, having
a dark reddish brown color, due to the presence of
sesquioxide of iron.
Spanish buckeye (Bot.), a small tree (Ungnadia speciosa)
of Texas, New Mexico, etc., related to the buckeye, but
having pinnate leaves and a three-seeded fruit.
Spanish burton (Naut.), a purchase composed of two single
blocks. A
double Spanish burton has one double and two single blocks.
--Luce (Textbook of Seamanship).
Spanish chalk (Min.), a kind of steatite; -- so called
because obtained from Aragon in Spain.
Spanish cress (Bot.), a cruciferous plant ({Lepidium
Cadamines}), a species of peppergrass.
Spanish curlew (Zool.), the long-billed curlew. [U.S.]
Spanish daggers (Bot.) See Spanish bayonet.
Spanish elm (Bot.), a large West Indian tree ({Cordia
Gerascanthus}) furnishing hard and useful timber.
Spanish feretto, a rich reddish brown pigment obtained by
calcining copper and sulphur together in closed crucibles.
Spanish flag (Zool.), the California rockfish
(Sebastichthys rubrivinctus). It is conspicuously
colored with bands of red and white.
Spanish fly (Zool.), a brilliant green beetle, common in
the south of Europe, used for raising blisters. See
Blister beetle under Blister, and Cantharis.
Spanish fox (Naut.), a yarn twisted against its lay.
Spanish grass. (Bot.) See Esparto.
Spanish juice (Bot.), licorice.
Spanish leather. See Cordwain.
Spanish mackerel. (Zool.)
(a) A species of mackerel (Scomber colias) found both in
Europe and America. In America called chub mackerel,
big-eyed mackerel, and bull mackerel.
(b) In the United States, a handsome mackerel having bright
yellow round spots (Scomberomorus maculatus), highly
esteemed as a food fish. The name is sometimes
erroneously applied to other species. See Illust. under
Mackerel.
Spanish main, the name formerly given to the southern
portion of the Caribbean Sea, together with the contiguous
coast, embracing the route traversed by Spanish treasure
ships from the New to the Old World.
Spanish moss. (Bot.) See Tillandsia (and note at that
entry).
Spanish needles (Bot.), a composite weed ({Bidens
bipinnata}) having achenia armed with needlelike awns.
Spanish nut (Bot.), a bulbous plant (Iris Sisyrinchium)
of the south of Europe.
Spanish potato (Bot.), the sweet potato. See under
Potato.
Spanish red, an ocherous red pigment resembling Venetian
red, but slightly yellower and warmer. --Fairholt.
Spanish reef (Naut.), a knot tied in the head of a
jib-headed sail.
Spanish sheep (Zool.), a merino.
Spanish white, an impalpable powder prepared from chalk by
pulverizing and repeated washings, -- used as a white
pigment.
Spanish windlass (Naut.), a wooden roller, with a rope
wound about it, into which a marline spike is thrust to
serve as a lever.
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Bidens tripartita
(gcide) | Water agrimony \Wa"ter ag"ri*mo*ny\ (Bot.)
A kind of bur marigold (Bidens tripartita) found in wet
places in Europe.
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Hyperoodon bidens
(gcide) | Sperm whale \Sperm" whale`\ (Zool.)
A very large toothed whale (Physeter macrocephalus), having
a head of enormous size. The upper jaw is destitute of teeth.
In the upper part of the head, above the skull, there is a
large cavity, or case, filled with oil and spermaceti. This
whale sometimes grows to the length of more than eighty feet.
It is found in the warmer parts of all the oceans. Called
also cachalot, and spermaceti whale.
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Pygmy sperm whale (Zool.), a small whale ({Kogia
breviceps}), seldom twenty feet long, native of tropical
seas, but occasionally found on the American coast. Called
also snub-nosed cachalot.
Sperm-whale porpoise (Zool.), a toothed cetacean
(Hyperoodon bidens), found on both sides of the Atlantic
and valued for its oil. The adult becomes about
twenty-five feet long, and its head is very large and
thick. Called also bottle-nosed whale.
[1913 Webster]Bottlehead \Bot"tle*head`\, n. (Zool.)
A cetacean allied to the grampus; -- called also
bottle-nosed whale.
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Note: There are several species so named, as the pilot
whales, of the genus Globicephalus, and one or more
species of Hypero["o]don (Hypero["o]don bidens,
etc.), found on the European coast. See Blackfish, 1.
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bidens bipinnata
(wn) | Bidens bipinnata
n 1: common bur marigold of the eastern United States [syn:
Spanish needles, Bidens bipinnata] |
bidens connata
(wn) | Bidens connata
n 1: bur marigold of eastern and northern United States and
Canada common in wet pastures and meadows [syn: {swampy
beggar-ticks}, Bidens connata] |
bidens coronata
(wn) | Bidens coronata
n 1: North American bur marigold with large flowers [syn:
tickseed sunflower, Bidens coronata, {Bidens
trichosperma}] |
bidens trichosperma
(wn) | Bidens trichosperma
n 1: North American bur marigold with large flowers [syn:
tickseed sunflower, Bidens coronata, {Bidens
trichosperma}] |
bidens tripartita
(wn) | Bidens tripartita
n 1: bur marigold of temperate Eurasia [syn: {European beggar-
ticks}, trifid beggar-ticks, trifid bur marigold,
Bidens tripartita] |
genus bidens
(wn) | genus Bidens
n 1: bur marigolds [syn: Bidens, genus Bidens] |
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