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pubes
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Pubes
(gcide) | Pubes \Pu"bes\, n. [L., the hair which appears on the body at
puberty, from pubes adult.]
1. (Anat.)
(a) The hair which appears upon the lower part of the
hypogastric region at the age of puberty.
(b) Hence (as more commonly used), the lower part of the
hypogastric region; the pubic region.
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2. (Bot.) The down of plants; a downy or villous substance
which grows on plants; pubescence.
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pubes
(wn) | pubes
n 1: the lower part of the abdomen just above the external
genital organs [syn: pubes, pubic region, loins] |
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pre-pubescent
(encz) | pre-pubescent,předpubertální adj: Zdeněk Brož |
prepubescence
(encz) | prepubescence, |
prepubescent
(encz) | prepubescent,předpubertální adj: Zdeněk Brož |
pubescence
(encz) | pubescence,dospívání n: Zdeněk Brožpubescence,ochlupení n: Zdeněk Brožpubescence,puberta n: Zdeněk Brož |
pubescent
(encz) | pubescent,dospívající adj: Zdeněk Brož |
Dryobates pubescens
(gcide) | Woodpecker \Wood"peck`er\, n. (Zool.)
Any one of numerous species of scansorial birds belonging to
Picus and many allied genera of the family Picidae.
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Note: These birds have the tail feathers pointed and rigid at
the tip to aid in climbing, and a strong chisellike
bill with which they are able to drill holes in the
bark and wood of trees in search of insect larvae upon
which most of the species feed. A few species feed
partly upon the sap of trees (see Sap sucker, under
Sap), others spend a portion of their time on the
ground in search of ants and other insects.
[1913 Webster] The most common European species are the
greater spotted woodpecker (Dendrocopus major), the
lesser spotted woodpecker (Dendrocopus minor), and
the green woodpecker, or yaffle (see Yaffle).
[1913 Webster] The best-known American species are the
pileated woodpecker (see under Pileated), the
ivory-billed woodpecker (Campephilus principalis),
which is one of the largest known species, the
red-headed woodpecker, or red-head ({Melanerpes
erythrocephalus}), the red-bellied woodpecker
(Melanerpes Carolinus) (see Chab), the superciliary
woodpecker (Melanerpes superciliaris), the hairy
woodpecker (Dryobates villosus), the downy woodpecker
(Dryobates pubescens), the three-toed, woodpecker
(Picoides Americanus), the golden-winged woodpecker
(see Flicker), and the sap suckers. See also
Carpintero.
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Woodpecker hornbill (Zool.), a black and white Asiatic
hornbill (Buceros pica) which resembles a woodpecker in
color.
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Epipubes
(gcide) | Epipubis \Ep`i*pu"bis\, n.; pl. Epipubes. [NL., epi- + pubis.]
(Anat.)
A cartilage or bone in front of the pubis in some amphibians
and other animals.
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Fraxinus pubescens
(gcide) | Red \Red\, a. [Compar. Redder (-d?r); superl. Reddest.] [OE.
red, reed, AS. re['a]d, re['o]d; akin to OS. r[=o]d, OFries.
r[=a]d, D. rood, G. roht, rot, OHG. r[=o]t, Dan. & Sw.
r["o]d, Icel. rau[eth]r, rj[=o][eth]r, Goth. r['a]uds, W.
rhudd, Armor. ruz, Ir. & Gael. ruadh, L. ruber, rufus, Gr.
'eryqro`s, Skr. rudhira, rohita; cf. L. rutilus. [root]113.
Cf. Erysipelas, Rouge, Rubric, Ruby, Ruddy,
Russet, Rust.]
Of the color of blood, or of a tint resembling that color; of
the hue of that part of the rainbow, or of the solar
spectrum, which is furthest from the violet part. "Fresh
flowers, white and reede." --Chaucer.
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Your color, I warrant you, is as red as any rose.
--Shak.
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Note: Red is a general term, including many different shades
or hues, as scarlet, crimson, vermilion, orange red,
and the like.
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Note: Red is often used in the formation of self-explaining
compounds; as, red-breasted, red-cheeked, red-faced,
red-haired, red-headed, red-skinned, red-tailed,
red-topped, red-whiskered, red-coasted.
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Red admiral (Zool.), a beautiful butterfly ({Vanessa
Atalanta}) common in both Europe and America. The front
wings are crossed by a broad orange red band. The larva
feeds on nettles. Called also Atalanta butterfly, and
nettle butterfly.
Red ant. (Zool.)
(a) A very small ant (Myrmica molesta) which often infests
houses.
(b) A larger reddish ant (Formica sanguinea), native of
Europe and America. It is one of the slave-making
species.
Red antimony (Min.), kermesite. See Kermes mineral
(b), under Kermes.
Red ash (Bot.), an American tree (Fraxinus pubescens),
smaller than the white ash, and less valuable for timber.
--Cray.
Red bass. (Zool.) See Redfish
(d) .
Red bay (Bot.), a tree (Persea Caroliniensis) having the
heartwood red, found in swamps in the Southern United
States.
Red beard (Zool.), a bright red sponge ({Microciona
prolifera}), common on oyster shells and stones. [Local,
U.S.]
Red birch (Bot.), a species of birch (Betula nigra)
having reddish brown bark, and compact, light-colored
wood. --Gray.
Red blindness. (Med.) See Daltonism.
Red book, a book containing the names of all the persons in
the service of the state. [Eng.]
Red book of the Exchequer, an ancient record in which are
registered the names of all that held lands per baroniam
in the time of Henry II. --Brande & C.
Red brass, an alloy containing eight parts of copper and
three of zinc.
Red bug. (Zool.)
(a) A very small mite which in Florida attacks man, and
produces great irritation by its bites.
(b) A red hemipterous insect of the genus Pyrrhocoris,
especially the European species (Pyrrhocoris apterus),
which is bright scarlet and lives in clusters on tree
trunks.
(c) See Cotton stainder, under Cotton.
Red cedar. (Bot.) An evergreen North American tree
(Juniperus Virginiana) having a fragrant red-colored
heartwood.
(b) A tree of India and Australia (Cedrela Toona) having
fragrant reddish wood; -- called also toon tree in
India.
Red horse. (Zool.)
(a) Any large American red fresh-water sucker, especially
Moxostoma macrolepidotum and allied species.
(b) See the Note under Drumfish.
Red lead.
(Chem) See under Lead, and Minium.
Red-lead ore. (Min.) Same as Crocoite.
Red liquor (Dyeing), a solution consisting essentially of
aluminium acetate, used as a mordant in the fixation of
dyestuffs on vegetable fiber; -- so called because used
originally for red dyestuffs. Called also red mordant.
Red maggot (Zool.), the larva of the wheat midge.
Red manganese. (Min.) Same as Rhodochrosite.
Red man, one of the American Indians; -- so called from his
color.
Red maple (Bot.), a species of maple (Acer rubrum). See
Maple.
Red mite. (Zool.) See Red spider, below.
Red mulberry (Bot.), an American mulberry of a dark purple
color (Morus rubra).
Red mullet (Zool.), the surmullet. See Mullet.
Red ocher (Min.), a soft earthy variety of hematite, of a
reddish color.
Red perch (Zool.), the rosefish.
Red phosphorus. (Chem.) See under Phosphorus.
Red pine (Bot.), an American species of pine ({Pinus
resinosa}); -- so named from its reddish bark.
Red precipitate. See under Precipitate.
Red Republican (European Politics), originally, one who
maintained extreme republican doctrines in France, --
because a red liberty cap was the badge of the party; an
extreme radical in social reform. [Cant]
Red ribbon, the ribbon of the Order of the Bath in England.
Red sanders. (Bot.) See Sanders.
Red sandstone. (Geol.) See under Sandstone.
Red scale (Zool.), a scale insect (Aspidiotus aurantii)
very injurious to the orange tree in California and
Australia.
Red silver (Min.), an ore of silver, of a ruby-red or
reddish black color. It includes proustite, or light red
silver, and pyrargyrite, or dark red silver.
Red snapper (Zool.), a large fish (Lutjanus aya syn.
Lutjanus Blackfordii) abundant in the Gulf of Mexico and
about the Florida reefs.
Red snow, snow colored by a mocroscopic unicellular alga
(Protococcus nivalis) which produces large patches of
scarlet on the snows of arctic or mountainous regions.
Red softening (Med.) a form of cerebral softening in which
the affected parts are red, -- a condition due either to
infarction or inflammation.
Red spider (Zool.), a very small web-spinning mite
(Tetranychus telarius) which infests, and often
destroys, plants of various kinds, especially those
cultivated in houses and conservatories. It feeds mostly
on the under side of the leaves, and causes them to turn
yellow and die. The adult insects are usually pale red.
Called also red mite.
Red squirrel (Zool.), the chickaree.
Red tape,
(a) the tape used in public offices for tying up documents,
etc. Hence,
(b) official formality and delay; excessive bureaucratic
paperwork.
Red underwing (Zool.), any species of noctuid moths
belonging to Catacola and allied genera. The numerous
species are mostly large and handsomely colored. The under
wings are commonly banded with bright red or orange.
Red water, a disease in cattle, so called from an
appearance like blood in the urine.
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Goodyera pubescens
(gcide) | Plantain \Plan"tain\, n. [F., fr. L. plantago. Cf. Plant.]
(Bot.)
Any plant of the genus Plantago, but especially the
Plantago major, a low herb with broad spreading radical
leaves, and slender spikes of minute flowers. It is a native
of Europe, but now found near the abode of civilized man in
nearly all parts of the world.
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Indian plantain. (Bot.) See under Indian.
Mud plantain, a homely North American aquatic plant
(Heteranthera reniformis), having broad, reniform
leaves.
Rattlesnake plantain, an orchidaceous plant ({Goodyera
pubescens}), with the leaves blotched and spotted with
white.
Ribwort plantain. See Ribwort.
Robin's plantain, the Erigeron bellidifolium, a common
daisylike plant of North America.
Water plantain, a plant of the genus Alisma, having acrid
leaves, and formerly regarded as a specific against
hydrophobia. --Loudon.
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Holarrhena pubescens
(gcide) | kurchee \kurchee\, kurchi \kurchi\n.
A tropical Asian tree (Holarrhena antidysenterica syn.
Holarrhena pubescens) with hard white wood and bark
formerly used as a remedy for dysentery and diarrhea.
Syn: ivory tree, conessi, kurchee, Holarrhena pubescens,
Holarrhena antidysenterica.
[WordNet 1.5]conessi \conessi\ n.
a tropical Asian tree (Holarrhena pubescens or {Holarrhena
antidysenterica}) with hard white wood and bark formerly used
as a remedy for dysentery and diarrhea.
Syn: ivory tree, kurchi, kurchee, Holarrhena pubescens,
Holarrhena antidysenterica.
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Picoides pubescens
(gcide) | Downy woodpecker \Down"y wood"peck*er\ (-[y^]), n. (Zool.)
A small black and white ladder-backed woodpecker ({Picoides
pubescens}) of Central and Eastern U. S. and Canada. It
strongly resembles the hairy woodpecker, but is smaller (6
1/2"), compared with about 9-1/2" for the hairy. It is common
in suburban backyards.
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Prosopis pubescens
(gcide) | Screw \Screw\ (skr[udd]), n. [OE. scrue, OF. escroue, escroe,
female screw, F. ['e]crou, L. scrobis a ditch, trench, in
LL., the hole made by swine in rooting; cf. D. schroef a
screw, G. schraube, Icel. skr[=u]fa.]
1. A cylinder, or a cylindrical perforation, having a
continuous rib, called the thread, winding round it
spirally at a constant inclination, so as to leave a
continuous spiral groove between one turn and the next, --
used chiefly for producing, when revolved, motion or
pressure in the direction of its axis, by the sliding of
the threads of the cylinder in the grooves between the
threads of the perforation adapted to it, the former being
distinguished as the external, or male screw, or, more
usually the screw; the latter as the internal, or female
screw, or, more usually, the nut.
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Note: The screw, as a mechanical power, is a modification of
the inclined plane, and may be regarded as a
right-angled triangle wrapped round a cylinder, the
hypotenuse of the marking the spiral thread of the
screw, its base equaling the circumference of the
cylinder, and its height the pitch of the thread.
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2. Specifically, a kind of nail with a spiral thread and a
head with a nick to receive the end of the screw-driver.
Screws are much used to hold together pieces of wood or to
fasten something; -- called also wood screws, and {screw
nails}. See also Screw bolt, below.
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3. Anything shaped or acting like a screw; esp., a form of
wheel for propelling steam vessels. It is placed at the
stern, and furnished with blades having helicoidal
surfaces to act against the water in the manner of a
screw. See Screw propeller, below.
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4. A steam vesel propelled by a screw instead of wheels; a
screw steamer; a propeller.
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5. An extortioner; a sharp bargainer; a skinflint; a niggard.
--Thackeray.
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6. An instructor who examines with great or unnecessary
severity; also, a searching or strict examination of a
student by an instructor. [Cant, American Colleges]
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7. A small packet of tobacco. [Slang] --Mayhew.
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8. An unsound or worn-out horse, useful as a hack, and
commonly of good appearance. --Ld. Lytton.
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9. (Math.) A straight line in space with which a definite
linear magnitude termed the pitch is associated (cf. 5th
Pitch, 10
(b) ). It is used to express the displacement of a rigid
body, which may always be made to consist of a
rotation about an axis combined with a translation
parallel to that axis.
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10. (Zool.) An amphipod crustacean; as, the skeleton screw
(Caprella). See Sand screw, under Sand.
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Archimedes screw, Compound screw, Foot screw, etc. See
under Archimedes, Compound, Foot, etc.
A screw loose, something out of order, so that work is not
done smoothly; as, there is a screw loose somewhere. --H.
Martineau.
Endless screw, or perpetual screw, a screw used to give
motion to a toothed wheel by the action of its threads
between the teeth of the wheel; -- called also a worm.
Lag screw. See under Lag.
Micrometer screw, a screw with fine threads, used for the
measurement of very small spaces.
Right and left screw, a screw having threads upon the
opposite ends which wind in opposite directions.
Screw alley. See Shaft alley, under Shaft.
Screw bean. (Bot.)
(a) The curious spirally coiled pod of a leguminous tree
(Prosopis pubescens) growing from Texas to
California. It is used for fodder, and ground into
meal by the Indians.
(b) The tree itself. Its heavy hard wood is used for
fuel, for fencing, and for railroad ties.
Screw bolt, a bolt having a screw thread on its shank, in
distinction from a key bolt. See 1st Bolt, 3.
Screw box, a device, resembling a die, for cutting the
thread on a wooden screw.
Screw dock. See under Dock.
Screw engine, a marine engine for driving a screw
propeller.
Screw gear. See Spiral gear, under Spiral.
Screw jack. Same as Jackscrew.
Screw key, a wrench for turning a screw or nut; a spanner
wrench.
Screw machine.
(a) One of a series of machines employed in the
manufacture of wood screws.
(b) A machine tool resembling a lathe, having a number of
cutting tools that can be caused to act on the work
successively, for making screws and other turned
pieces from metal rods.
Screw pine (Bot.), any plant of the endogenous genus
Pandanus, of which there are about fifty species,
natives of tropical lands from Africa to Polynesia; --
named from the spiral arrangement of the pineapple-like
leaves.
Screw plate, a device for cutting threads on small screws,
consisting of a thin steel plate having a series of
perforations with internal screws forming dies.
Screw press, a press in which pressure is exerted by means
of a screw.
Screw propeller, a screw or spiral bladed wheel, used in
the propulsion of steam vessels; also, a steam vessel
propelled by a screw.
Screw shell (Zool.), a long, slender, spiral gastropod
shell, especially of the genus Turritella and allied
genera. See Turritella.
Screw steamer, a steamship propelled by a screw.
Screw thread, the spiral rib which forms a screw.
Screw stone (Paleon.), the fossil stem of an encrinite.
Screw tree (Bot.), any plant of the genus Helicteres,
consisting of about thirty species of tropical shrubs,
with simple leaves and spirally twisted, five-celled
capsules; -- also called twisted-horn, and twisty.
Screw valve, a stop valve which is opened or closed by a
screw.
Screw worm (Zool.), the larva of an American fly
(Compsomyia macellaria), allied to the blowflies, which
sometimes deposits its eggs in the nostrils, or about
wounds, in man and other animals, with fatal results.
Screw wrench.
(a) A wrench for turning a screw.
(b) A wrench with an adjustable jaw that is moved by a
screw.
To put the screws on or To put the screw on, to use
pressure upon, as for the purpose of extortion; to coerce.
To put under the screw or To put under the screws, to
subject to pressure; to force.
Wood screw, a metal screw with a sharp thread of coarse
pitch, adapted to holding fast in wood. See Illust. of
Wood screw, under Wood.
[1913 Webster]Mesquite \Mes*qui"te\ (m[e^]s*k[=e]"t[asl]), Mesquit \Mes*quit"\
(m[e^]s*k[=e]t"), n. [Sp. mezquite; said to be a Mexican
Indian word.] (Bot.)
Aany of several small spiny trees or shrubs of the
southwestern part of North America belonging to the genus
Prosopis having small flowers in axillary cylindrical
spikes followed by large sugar-rich pods, especially the
honey mesquite, and screw-pod mesquite.
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Honey mesquite. See Algaroba
(b) .
Screw-pod mesquite, a smaller tree (Prosopis pubescens),
having spiral pods used as fodder and sometimes as food by
the Indians.
Mesquite grass, a rich native grass in Western Texas
(Bouteloua oligostachya, and other species); -- so
called from its growing in company with the mesquite tree;
-- called also muskit grass, grama grass.
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Pubes
(gcide) | Pubes \Pu"bes\, n. [L., the hair which appears on the body at
puberty, from pubes adult.]
1. (Anat.)
(a) The hair which appears upon the lower part of the
hypogastric region at the age of puberty.
(b) Hence (as more commonly used), the lower part of the
hypogastric region; the pubic region.
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2. (Bot.) The down of plants; a downy or villous substance
which grows on plants; pubescence.
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Pubescence
(gcide) | Pubescence \Pu*bes"cence\, n. [Cf. F. pubescence.]
1. The quality or state of being pubescent, or of having
arrived at puberty. --Sir T. Browne.
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2. A covering of soft short hairs, or down, as one some
plants and insects; also, the state of being so covered.
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Pubescency
(gcide) | Pubescency \Pu*bes"cen*cy\, n.
Pubescence.
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Pubescent
(gcide) | Pubescent \Pu*bes"cent\ (p[-u]"b[e^]s"sent), a. [L. pubescens,
-entis, p. pr. of pubescere to reach puberty, to grow hairy
or mossy, fr. pubes pubes: cf. F. pubescent.]
1. Arrived recently at puberty.
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That . . . the men (are) pubescent at the age of
twice seven, is accounted a punctual truth. --Sir T.
Browne.
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2. Covered with pubescence, or fine short hairs, as certain
insects, and the leaves of some plants.
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betula pubescens
(wn) | Betula pubescens
n 1: European birch with dull white to pale brown bark and
somewhat drooping hairy branches [syn: downy birch,
white birch, Betula pubescens] |
cinchona pubescens
(wn) | Cinchona pubescens
n 1: small tree of Ecuador and Peru having very large glossy
leaves and large panicles of fragrant pink flowers;
cultivated for its medicinal bark [syn: cinchona tree,
Cinchona pubescens] |
cypripedium calceolus pubescens
(wn) | Cypripedium calceolus pubescens
n 1: plant of eastern and central North America having slightly
fragrant purple-marked greenish-yellow flowers [syn: {large
yellow lady's slipper}, Cypripedium calceolus pubescens] |
dryopteris thelypteris pubescens
(wn) | Dryopteris thelypteris pubescens
n 1: fern of northeastern North America [syn: snuffbox fern,
meadow fern, Thelypteris palustris pubescens,
Dryopteris thelypteris pubescens] |
holarrhena pubescens
(wn) | Holarrhena pubescens
n 1: tropical Asian tree with hard white wood and bark formerly
used as a remedy for dysentery and diarrhea [syn: {ivory
tree}, conessi, kurchi, kurchee, {Holarrhena
pubescens}, Holarrhena antidysenterica] |
physalis pubescens
(wn) | Physalis pubescens
n 1: decorative American annual having round fleshy yellow
berries enclosed in a bladderlike husk [syn: {downy ground
cherry}, strawberry tomato, Physalis pubescens] |
prepubescent
(wn) | prepubescent
adj 1: (especially of human beings) at the age immediately
before puberty; often marked by accelerated growth [syn:
prepubescent, prepubertal] |
prosopis pubescens
(wn) | Prosopis pubescens
n 1: shrub or small tree of southwestern United States and
northwestern Mexico having spirally twisted pods [syn:
screw bean, screwbean, tornillo, {screwbean
mesquite}, Prosopis pubescens] |
pubescence
(wn) | pubescence
n 1: the time of life when sex glands become functional [syn:
puberty, pubescence] |
pubescent
(wn) | pubescent
adj 1: (of animals especially human beings) having arrived at
the onset of puberty (the age at which sex glands become
functional) but not yet fully mature; "the budding
breasts of a pubescent girl and the downy chin of
pubescent boy"
2: covered with fine soft hairs or down; "downy milkweed seeds"
[syn: downy, pubescent, puberulent, sericeous] |
thelypteris palustris pubescens
(wn) | Thelypteris palustris pubescens
n 1: fern of northeastern North America [syn: snuffbox fern,
meadow fern, Thelypteris palustris pubescens,
Dryopteris thelypteris pubescens] |
viola pubescens
(wn) | Viola pubescens
n 1: violet of eastern North America having softly pubescent
leaves and stems and clear yellow flowers with brown-purple
veins [syn: downy yellow violet, Viola pubescens] |
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