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rotund
(encz) | rotund,baculatý adj: Zdeněk Brož |
rotund
(encz) | rotund,kulatý adj: Zdeněk Brož |
Rotund
(gcide) | Rotund \Ro*tund"\, n.
A rotunda. [Obs.] --Burke.
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Rotund
(gcide) | Rotund \Ro*tund"\, a. [L. rotundus. See Round, and cf.
Rotunda.]
1. Round; circular; spherical.
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2. Hence, complete; entire.
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3. (Bot.) orbicular, or nearly so. --Gray.
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rotund
(wn) | rotund
adj 1: spherical in shape
2: (of sounds) full and rich; "orotund tones"; "the rotund and
reverberating phrase"; "pear-shaped vowels" [syn: orotund,
rotund, round, pear-shaped]
3: excessively fat; "a weighty man" [syn: corpulent, obese,
weighty, rotund] |
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fenestra rotunda
(encz) | fenestra rotunda, n: |
orotund
(encz) | orotund,pompézní adj: Michal Ambrožorotund,úžasný adj: úžas s otevřenou pusou Michal Ambrožorotund,zvučný adj: charakterizovaný silou, plností a jasem zvuku Michal
Ambrož |
orotundity
(encz) | orotundity,zvučnost n: Zdeněk Brož |
rotunda
(encz) | rotunda,rotunda n: Zdeněk Brož |
rotundity
(encz) | rotundity,baculatost n: Zdeněk Brožrotundity,oblost n: Zdeněk Brožrotundity,okrouhlost n: Zdeněk Brož |
rotundly
(encz) | rotundly, adv: |
rotundness
(encz) | rotundness, |
rotunda
(czen) | rotunda,rotundan: Zdeněk Brož |
Bupleurum rotundifolium
(gcide) | Hare's-ear \Hare's"-ear`\ (h[^a]rz"[=e]r`), n. (Bot.)
An umbelliferous plant (Bupleurum rotundifolium); -- so
named from the shape of its leaves. --Dr. Prior.
[1913 Webster]Thoroughwax \Thor"ough*wax`\, n. (Bot.)
(a) An umbelliferous plant (Bupleurum rotundifolium) with
perfoliate leaves.
(b) Thoroughwort.
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Campanula rotundifolia
(gcide) | Harebell \Hare"bell`\ (h[^a]r"b[e^]l`), n. (Bot.)
A small, slender, branching plant (Campanula rotundifolia),
having blue bell-shaped flowers; also, Scilla nutans, which
has similar flowers; -- called also bluebell. [Written also
hairbell.]
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E'en the light harebell raised its head. --Sir W.
Scott.
[1913 Webster]Bluebell \Blue"bell`\, n. (Bot.)
(a) A plant of the genus Campanula, especially the
Campanula rotundifolia, which bears blue bell-shaped
flowers; the harebell.
(b) A plant of the genus Scilla (Scilla nutans).
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Cyperus rotundus
(gcide) | nutgrass \nut"grass`\, nut grass \nut" grass`\, n.(Bot.),
A widely distributed perennial plant of the Sedge family
(Cyperus rotundus, var. Hydra), which has slender
rootstocks bearing small, edible, nutlike tubers, by which
the plant multiplies exceedingly, especially in cotton
fields.
Syn: nutsedge, nut sedge, Cyperus rotundus.
[1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5]nutsedge \nutsedge\, nut sedge \nut sedge\n.
a widely distributed perennial sedge (Cyperus rotundus)
having small edible nutlike tubers; also called nut grass.
Syn: nutgrass, nut grass, Cyperus rotundus.
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Emilaz rotundifolia
(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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Fraxinus rotundifolia
(gcide) | Manna \Man"na\ (m[a^]n"n[.a]), n. [L., fr. Gr. ma`nna, Heb.
m[=a]n; cf. Ar. mann, properly, gift (of heaven).]
1. (Script.) The food supplied to the Israelites in their
journey through the wilderness of Arabia; hence, divinely
supplied food. --Ex. xvi. 15.
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2. (Bot.) A name given to lichens of the genus Lecanora,
sometimes blown into heaps in the deserts of Arabia and
Africa, and gathered and used as food; called also {manna
lichen}.
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3. (Bot. & Med.) A sweetish exudation in the form of pale
yellow friable flakes, coming from several trees and
shrubs and used in medicine as a gentle laxative, as the
secretion of Fraxinus Ornus, and {Fraxinus
rotundifolia}, the manna ashes of Southern Europe.
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Note: Persian manna is the secretion of the camel's thorn
(see Camel's thorn, under Camel); Tamarisk manna,
that of the Tamarisk mannifera, a shrub of Western
Asia; Australian, manna, that of certain species of
eucalyptus; Brian[,c]on manna, that of the European
larch.
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Manna insect (Zool), a scale insect ({Gossyparia
mannipara}), which causes the exudation of manna from the
Tamarix tree in Arabia.
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Malva rotundifolia
(gcide) | Mallow \Mal"low\, Mallows \Mal"lows\, n. [OE. malwe, AS. mealwe,
fr. L. malva, akin to Gr. mala`chh; cf. mala`ssein to soften,
malako`s soft. Named either from its softening or relaxing
properties, or from its soft downy leaves. Cf. Mauve,
Malachite.] (Bot.)
A genus of plants (Malva) having mucilaginous qualities.
See Malvaceous.
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Note: The flowers of the common mallow (Malva sylvestris)
are used in medicine. The dwarf mallow ({Malva
rotundifolia}) is a common weed, and its flattened,
dick-shaped fruits are called cheeses by children. Tree
mallow (Malva Mauritiana and Lavatera arborea),
musk mallow (Malva moschata), rose mallow or
hollyhock, and curled mallow (Malva crispa), are less
commonly seen.
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Indian mallow. See Abutilon.
Jew's mallow, a plant (Corchorus olitorius) used as a pot
herb by the Jews of Egypt and Syria.
Marsh mallow. See under Marsh.
[1913 Webster]Cheese \Cheese\ (ch[=e]z), n. [OE. chese, AS. c[=e]se, fr. L.
caseus, LL. casius. Cf. Casein.]
1. The curd of milk, coagulated usually with rennet,
separated from the whey, and pressed into a solid mass in
a hoop or mold.
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2. A mass of pomace, or ground apples, pressed together in
the form of a cheese.
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3. The flat, circular, mucilaginous fruit of the dwarf mallow
(Malva rotundifolia). [Colloq.]
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4. A low courtesy; -- so called on account of the cheese form
assumed by a woman's dress when she stoops after extending
the skirts by a rapid gyration. --De Quincey. --Thackeray.
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Cheese cake, a cake made of or filled with, a composition
of soft curds, sugar, and butter. --Prior.
Cheese fly (Zool.), a black dipterous insect ({Piophila
casei}) of which the larv[ae] or maggots, called skippers
or hoppers, live in cheese.
Cheese mite (Zool.), a minute mite (Tryoglyhus siro) in
cheese and other articles of food.
Cheese press, a press used in making cheese, to separate
the whey from the curd, and to press the curd into a mold.
Cheese rennet (Bot.), a plant of the Madder family ({Golium
verum}, or yellow bedstraw), sometimes used to coagulate
milk. The roots are used as a substitute for madder.
Cheese vat, a vat or tub in which the curd is formed and
cut or broken, in cheese making.
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Mentha rotundifolia
(gcide) | applemint \applemint\ n.
1. a mint (Mentha rotundifolia or Mentha suaveolens) with
apple-scented stems of South and West Europe; naturalized
in U.S.
Syn: apple mint.
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Mola rotunda
(gcide) | Sunfish \Sun"fish`\, n. (Zool.)
(a) A very large oceanic plectognath fish (Mola mola, {Mola
rotunda}, or Orthagoriscus mola) having a broad body
and a truncated tail.
(b) Any one of numerous species of perch-like North American
fresh-water fishes of the family Centrachidae. They
have a broad, compressed body, and strong dorsal spines.
Among the common species of the Eastern United States are
Lepomis gibbosus (called also bream, pondfish,
pumpkin seed, and sunny), the blue sunfish, or
dollardee (Lepomis pallidus), and the long-eared
sunfish (Lepomis auritus). Several of the species are
called also pondfish.
(c) The moonfish, or bluntnosed shiner.
(d) The opah.
(e) The basking, or liver, shark.
(f) Any large jellyfish.
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Orotund
(gcide) | Orotund \O"ro*tund`\, a. [L. os, oris, the mouth + rotundus
round, smooth.]
Characterized by fullness, clearness, strength, and
smoothness; ringing and musical; -- said of the voice or
manner of utterance. -- n. The orotund voice or utterance
--Rush.
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Orotundity
(gcide) | Orotundity \O`ro*tun"di*ty\, n.
The orotund mode of intonation.
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Ovate-rotundate
(gcide) | Ovate-rotundate \O"vate-ro*tund"ate\, a.
Having a form intermediate between that of an egg and a
sphere; roundly ovate.
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Ovato-rotundate
(gcide) | Ovato-rotundate \O*va"to-ro*tund"ate\, a.
Same as Ovate-rotundate.
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Rotund
(gcide) | Rotund \Ro*tund"\, n.
A rotunda. [Obs.] --Burke.
[1913 Webster]Rotund \Ro*tund"\, a. [L. rotundus. See Round, and cf.
Rotunda.]
1. Round; circular; spherical.
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2. Hence, complete; entire.
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3. (Bot.) orbicular, or nearly so. --Gray.
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Rotunda
(gcide) | Rotunda \Ro*tun"da\, n. [Cf. It. rotonda, F. rotonde; both fr.
L. rotundus round. See Rotund, a.] (Arch.)
A round building; especially, one that is round both on the
outside and inside, like the Pantheon at Rome. Less properly,
but very commonly, used for a large round room; as, the
rotunda of the Capitol at Washington.
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Rotundate
(gcide) | Rotundate \Ro*tund"ate\, a.
Rounded; especially, rounded at the end or ends, or at the
corners.
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Rotundifolious
(gcide) | Rotundifolious \Ro*tund`i*fo"li*ous\, a. [L. rotundus round +
folium a leaf.] (Bot.)
Having round leaves.
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Rotundity
(gcide) | Rotundity \Ro*tund"i*ty\, n. [L. rotunditas: cf. F.
rotondit['e].]
1. The state or quality of being rotu?; roundness;
sphericity; circularity.
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Smite flat the thick rotundity o'the world! --Shak.
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2. Hence, completeness; entirety; roundness.
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For the more rotundity of the number and grace of
the matter, it passeth for a full thousand.
--Fuller.
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A boldness and rotundity of speech. --Hawthorne.
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Rotundness
(gcide) | Rotundness \Ro*tund"ness\, n.
Roundness; rotundity.
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Rotundo
(gcide) | Rotundo \Ro*tun"do\, n.
See Rotunda.
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Smilax rotundifolia
(gcide) | horsebrier \horsebrier\ n.
a very prickly woody vine (Smilax rotundifolia) of eastern
U. S. growing in tangled masses having tough round stems with
shiny leathery leaves and small greenish flowers followed by
clusters of inedible shiny black berries.
Syn: bullbrier, greenbrier, catbrier, brier, briar, {Smilax
rotundifolia}.
[WordNet 1.5]Brier \Bri"er\, Briar \Bri"ar\ (br[imac]"[~e]r), n. [OE. brere,
brer, AS. br[=e]r, br[ae]r; cf. Ir. briar prickle, thorn,
brier, pin, Gael. preas bush, brier, W. prys, prysg.]
1. A plant with a slender woody stem bearing stout prickles;
especially, species of Rosa, Rubus, and Smilax.
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2. Fig.: Anything sharp or unpleasant to the feelings.
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The thorns and briers of reproof. --Cowper.
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Brier root, the root of the southern Smilax laurifolia
and Smilax Walteri; -- used for tobacco pipes. See also
2nd brier.
Cat brier, Green brier, several species of Smilax
(Smilax rotundifolia, etc.)
Sweet brier (Rosa rubiginosa). See Sweetbrier.
Yellow brier, the Rosa Eglantina.
[1913 Webster]catbrier \catbrier\ n.
a very prickly woody vine of eastern U.S. ({Smilax
rotundifolia}) growing in tangled masses, having tough round
stems with shiny leathery leaves and small greenish flowers
followed by clusters of inedible shiny black berries.
Syn: bullbrier, greenbrier, horsebrier, brier, briar, {Smilax
rotundifolia}.
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Subrotund
(gcide) | Subrotund \Sub`ro*tund"\, a.
Somewhat rotund.
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campanula rotundifolia
(wn) | Campanula rotundifolia
n 1: perennial of northern hemisphere with slender stems and
bell-shaped blue flowers [syn: harebell, bluebell,
Campanula rotundifolia] |
cardamine rotundifolia
(wn) | Cardamine rotundifolia
n 1: mat-forming perennial found in cold springs of the eastern
United States [syn: American watercress, {mountain
watercress}, Cardamine rotundifolia] |
cyperus rotundus
(wn) | Cyperus rotundus
n 1: a widely distributed perennial sedge having small edible
nutlike tubers [syn: nutgrass, nut grass, nutsedge,
nut sedge, Cyperus rotundus] |
desmodus rotundus
(wn) | Desmodus rotundus
n 1: mouse-sized bat of tropical Central America and South
America having sharp incisor and canine teeth; feeds on the
blood of birds and mammals |
fenestra rotunda
(wn) | fenestra rotunda
n 1: fenestra leading into the cochlea [syn: fenestra rotunda,
fenestra cochleae, round window, {fenestra of the
cochlea}] |
mentha rotundifolia
(wn) | Mentha rotundifolia
n 1: mint with apple-scented stems of southern and western
Europe; naturalized in United States [syn: apple mint,
applemint, Mentha rotundifolia, Mentha suaveolens] |
orotund
(wn) | orotund
adj 1: ostentatiously lofty in style; "a man given to large
talk"; "tumid political prose" [syn: bombastic,
declamatory, large, orotund, tumid, turgid]
2: (of sounds) full and rich; "orotund tones"; "the rotund and
reverberating phrase"; "pear-shaped vowels" [syn: orotund,
rotund, round, pear-shaped] |
pellaea rotundifolia
(wn) | Pellaea rotundifolia
n 1: fern of New Zealand and Australia having trailing fronds
with dark green buttonlike leaflets [syn: button fern,
Pellaea rotundifolia] |
pyrola rotundifolia
(wn) | Pyrola rotundifolia
n 1: evergreen with rounded leaves and very fragrant creamy-
white flowers; widely distributed in northern parts of Old
and New Worlds [syn: wild lily of the valley, {Pyrola
rotundifolia}] |
pyrola rotundifolia americana
(wn) | Pyrola rotundifolia americana
n 1: evergreen of eastern North America with leathery leaves and
numerous white flowers [syn: false wintergreen, {Pyrola
americana}, Pyrola rotundifolia americana] |
rotunda
(wn) | rotunda
n 1: a building having a circular plan and a dome
2: a large circular room |
rotundity
(wn) | rotundity
n 1: the roundness of a 3-dimensional object [syn: sphericity,
sphericalness, globosity, globularness, rotundity,
rotundness]
2: the fullness of a tone of voice; "there is a musky roundness
to his wordiness" [syn: roundness, rotundity] |
rotundly
(wn) | rotundly
adv 1: in a sonorous manner; "the congregation consisted chiefly
of a few young folk, who snored sonorously" [syn:
sonorously, rotundly] |
rotundness
(wn) | rotundness
n 1: the roundness of a 3-dimensional object [syn: sphericity,
sphericalness, globosity, globularness, rotundity,
rotundness] |
salvinia rotundifolia
(wn) | Salvinia rotundifolia
n 1: free-floating aquatic ferns [syn: floating-moss,
Salvinia rotundifolia, Salvinia auriculata] |
smilax rotundifolia
(wn) | Smilax rotundifolia
n 1: a very prickly woody vine of the eastern United States
growing in tangled masses having tough round stems with
shiny leathery leaves and small greenish flowers followed
by clusters of inedible shiny black berries [syn:
bullbrier, greenbrier, catbrier, horse brier,
horse-brier, brier, briar, Smilax rotundifolia] |
vitis rotundifolia
(wn) | Vitis rotundifolia
n 1: native grape of southeastern United States; origin of many
cultivated varieties [syn: muscadine, {Vitis
rotundifolia}] |
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