slovo | definícia |
scad (encz) | scad, n: |
scad (gcide) | Friar \Fri"ar\, n. [OR. frere, F. fr[`e]re brother, friar, fr.
L. frater brother. See Brother.]
1. (R. C. Ch.) A brother or member of any religious order,
but especially of one of the four mendicant orders, viz:
(a) Minors, Gray Friars, or Franciscans. {(b)
Augustines}. (c) Dominicans or Black Friars. {(d) White
Friars or Carmelites.} See these names in the Vocabulary.
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2. (Print.) A white or pale patch on a printed page.
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3. (Zool.) An American fish; the silversides.
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Friar bird (Zool.), an Australian bird ({Tropidorhynchus
corniculatus}), having the head destitute of feathers; --
called also coldong, leatherhead, pimlico; {poor
soldier}, and four-o'clock. The name is also applied to
several other species of the same genus.
Friar's balsam (Med.), a stimulating application for wounds
and ulcers, being an alcoholic solution of benzoin,
styrax, tolu balsam, and aloes; compound tincture of
benzoin. --Brande & C.
Friar's cap (Bot.), the monkshood.
Friar's cowl (Bot.), an arumlike plant (Arisarum vulgare)
with a spathe or involucral leaf resembling a cowl.
Friar's lantern, the ignis fatuus or Will-o'-the-wisp.
--Milton.
Friar skate (Zool.), the European white or sharpnosed skate
(Raia alba); -- called also Burton skate, {border
ray}, scad, and doctor.
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Scad (gcide) | Scad \Scad\, n. [Gael. & Ir. sgadan a herring.] (Zool.)
(a) A small carangoid fish (Trachurus saurus) abundant on
the European coast, and less common on the American. The
name is applied also to several allied species.
(b) The goggler; -- called also big-eyed scad. See
Goggler.
(c) The friar skate. [Scot.]
(d) The cigar fish, or round robin.
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scad (wn) | scad
n 1: any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae |
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cascade (mass) | cascade
- kaskáda |
scads (mass) | scads
- veľa |
ambuscade (encz) | ambuscade,léčka n: Zdeněk Brožambuscade,přepadnout Pavel Cvrček |
cascadable (encz) | cascadable, |
cascade (encz) | cascade,kaskáda n: Zdeněk Brožcascade,kaskáda (hydrosystém) [eko.] RNDr. Pavel Piskač |
cascade (business) (encz) | cascade (business), |
cascade down (encz) | cascade down, v: |
cascade everlasting (encz) | cascade everlasting, n: |
cascade liquefier (encz) | cascade liquefier, n: |
cascade penstemon (encz) | cascade penstemon, n: |
cascade pond system (encz) | cascade pond system,kaskádová rybniční soustava [eko.] RNDr. Pavel
Piskač |
cascade range (encz) | Cascade Range, |
cascade tax (encz) | cascade tax, |
cascade terracing (encz) | cascade terracing,stupňovité terasování [eko.] RNDr. Pavel Piskač |
cascade transformer (encz) | cascade transformer, n: |
cascaded (encz) | cascaded, |
cascades frog (encz) | cascades frog, n: |
cascading (encz) | cascading,kaskádové řazení Zdeněk Brožcascading,řazení do kaskády Zdeněk Brož |
cascading menu (encz) | cascading menu, n: |
escadrille (encz) | escadrille, n: |
mackerel scad (encz) | mackerel scad, n: |
muscadel (encz) | muscadel, n: |
muscadelle (encz) | muscadelle, n: |
muscadet (encz) | Muscadet, |
muscadine (encz) | muscadine, n: |
round scad (encz) | round scad, n: |
scads (encz) | scads,spousta n: Zdeněk Brož |
Ambuscade (gcide) | Ambuscade \Am`bus*cade"\, n. [F. embuscade, fr. It. imboscata,
or Sp. emboscada, fr. emboscar to ambush, fr. LL. imboscare.
See Ambush, v. t.]
1. A lying in a wood, concealed, for the purpose of attacking
an enemy by surprise. Hence: A lying in wait, and
concealed in any situation, for a like purpose; a snare
laid for an enemy; an ambush.
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2. A place in which troops lie hid, to attack an enemy
unexpectedly. [R.] --Dryden.
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3. (Mil.) The body of troops lying in ambush.
[1913 Webster]Ambuscade \Am`bus*cade"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Ambuscaded; p.
pr. & vb. n. Ambuscading.]
1. To post or conceal in ambush; to ambush.
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2. To lie in wait for, or to attack from a covert or lurking
place; to waylay.
[1913 Webster]Ambuscade \Am`bus*cade"\, v. i.
To lie in ambush.
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Ambuscaded (gcide) | Ambuscade \Am`bus*cade"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Ambuscaded; p.
pr. & vb. n. Ambuscading.]
1. To post or conceal in ambush; to ambush.
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2. To lie in wait for, or to attack from a covert or lurking
place; to waylay.
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Ambuscading (gcide) | Ambuscade \Am`bus*cade"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Ambuscaded; p.
pr. & vb. n. Ambuscading.]
1. To post or conceal in ambush; to ambush.
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2. To lie in wait for, or to attack from a covert or lurking
place; to waylay.
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Ambuscado (gcide) | Ambuscado \Am`bus*ca"do\, n.
Ambuscade. [Obs.] --Shak.
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Ambuscadoed (gcide) | Ambuscadoed \Am`bus*ca"doed\, p. p.
Posted in ambush; ambuscaded. [Obs.]
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big-eyed scad (gcide) | Goggler \Gog"gler\, n. (Zool.)
A carangoid oceanic fish (Trachurops crumenophthalmus),
having very large and prominent eyes; -- called also
goggle-eye, big-eyed scad, and cicharra.
[1913 Webster]Scad \Scad\, n. [Gael. & Ir. sgadan a herring.] (Zool.)
(a) A small carangoid fish (Trachurus saurus) abundant on
the European coast, and less common on the American. The
name is applied also to several allied species.
(b) The goggler; -- called also big-eyed scad. See
Goggler.
(c) The friar skate. [Scot.]
(d) The cigar fish, or round robin.
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Cascade (gcide) | Cascade \Cas*cade"\ (k[a^]s*k[=a]d"), n. [F. cascade, fr. It.
cascata, fr. cascare to fall.]
A fall of water over a precipice, as in a river or brook; a
waterfall less than a cataract.
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The silver brook . . . pours the white cascade.
--Longjellow.
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Now murm'ring soft, now roaring in cascade. --Cowper.
[1913 Webster]Cascade \Cas*cade"\, v. i.
1. To fall in a cascade. --Lowell.
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2. To vomit. [Slang] --Smollett.
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cascade connection (gcide) | Cascade system \Cascade system\ (Elec.)
A system or method of connecting and operating two induction
motors so that the primary circuit of one is connected to the
secondary circuit of the other, the primary circuit of the
latter being connected to the source of supply; also, a
system of electric traction in which motors so connected are
employed. The cascade system is also called
tandem system, or concatenated system; the connection a
cascade connection, tandem connection, or {concatenated
connection}, or
a concatenation; and the control of the motors so obtained
a
tandem control, or concatenation control.
Note: In the cascade system of traction the cascade
connection is used for starting and for low speeds up
to half speed. For full speed the short-circuited motor
is cut loose from the other motor and is either left
idle or (commonly) connected direct to the line.
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Cascade method (gcide) | Cascade method \Cas*cade" meth"od\ (Physics)
A method of attaining successively lower temperatures by
utilizing the cooling effect of the expansion of one gas in
condensing another less easily liquefiable, and so on.
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Cascade system (gcide) | Cascade system \Cascade system\ (Elec.)
A system or method of connecting and operating two induction
motors so that the primary circuit of one is connected to the
secondary circuit of the other, the primary circuit of the
latter being connected to the source of supply; also, a
system of electric traction in which motors so connected are
employed. The cascade system is also called
tandem system, or concatenated system; the connection a
cascade connection, tandem connection, or {concatenated
connection}, or
a concatenation; and the control of the motors so obtained
a
tandem control, or concatenation control.
Note: In the cascade system of traction the cascade
connection is used for starting and for low speeds up
to half speed. For full speed the short-circuited motor
is cut loose from the other motor and is either left
idle or (commonly) connected direct to the line.
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Frescade (gcide) | Frescade \Fres"cade\, n. [See Fresco, Fresh, a.]
A cool walk; shady place. [R.] --Maunder.
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mackerel scad (gcide) | mackerel scad \mackerel scad\, mackerel shad \mackerel shad\n.
(Zool.)
A small silvery fish (Decapterus macarellus) found from
Nova Scotia to Brazil.
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Muscadel (gcide) | Muscadel \Mus"ca*del`\, muscadelle \mus"ca*delle\, n. [It.
moscadello, moscatello, LL. muscatellum or muscadellum (sc.
vinum), fr. muscatellus nutmeglike, dim. of muscatus smelling
like musk, muscatum and muscata (sc. nux) nutmeg: cf. F.
muscadelle, fr. Italian. See Musk and cf. Moschatel,
Muscardin, Muscat, Nutmeg.]
See Muscatel, n.
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Quaffed off the muscadel. --Shak.
[1913 Webster]Muscatel \Mus"ca*tel`\, n.
1. A common name for several varieties of rich sweet wine,
made in Italy, Spain, and France.
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2. pl. Finest raisins, dried on the vine; "sun raisins."
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etc.]
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muscadel (gcide) | Muscadel \Mus"ca*del`\, muscadelle \mus"ca*delle\, n. [It.
moscadello, moscatello, LL. muscatellum or muscadellum (sc.
vinum), fr. muscatellus nutmeglike, dim. of muscatus smelling
like musk, muscatum and muscata (sc. nux) nutmeg: cf. F.
muscadelle, fr. Italian. See Musk and cf. Moschatel,
Muscardin, Muscat, Nutmeg.]
See Muscatel, n.
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Quaffed off the muscadel. --Shak.
[1913 Webster]Muscatel \Mus"ca*tel`\, n.
1. A common name for several varieties of rich sweet wine,
made in Italy, Spain, and France.
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2. pl. Finest raisins, dried on the vine; "sun raisins."
[1913 Webster] [Variously written moscatel, muscadel,
etc.]
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muscadelle (gcide) | Muscadel \Mus"ca*del`\, muscadelle \mus"ca*delle\, n. [It.
moscadello, moscatello, LL. muscatellum or muscadellum (sc.
vinum), fr. muscatellus nutmeglike, dim. of muscatus smelling
like musk, muscatum and muscata (sc. nux) nutmeg: cf. F.
muscadelle, fr. Italian. See Musk and cf. Moschatel,
Muscardin, Muscat, Nutmeg.]
See Muscatel, n.
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Quaffed off the muscadel. --Shak.
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Muscadet (gcide) | Muscadet \Muscadet\ n.
1. A white grape grown esp. in the Loire Valley in France.
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2. A dry white wine from the Loire Valley in France.
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Muscadine (gcide) | Grapevine \Grape"vine`\, n. (Bot.)
A vine or climbing shrub, of the genus Vitis, having small
green flowers and lobed leaves, and bearing the fruit called
grapes.
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Note: The common grapevine of the Old World is {Vitis
vinifera}, and is a native of Central Asia. Another
variety is that yielding small seedless grapes commonly
called Zante currants. The northern Fox grape of
the United States is the V. Labrusca, from which, by
cultivation, has come the Isabella variety. The
southern Fox grape, or Muscadine, is the {V.
vulpina}. The Frost grape is V. cordifolia, which
has very fragrant flowers, and ripens after the early
frosts.
[1913 Webster]Muscadine \Mus"ca*dine\, n. [See Muscadel.]
1. (Bot.) A name given to several very different kinds of
grapes, but in America used chiefly for the scuppernong,
or southern fox grape, which is said to be the parent
stock of the Catawba. See Grapevine.
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2. (Bot.) A fragrant and delicious pear.
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3. (Zool.) See Muscardin.
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Northern muscadine (Bot.), a derivative of the northern fox
grape, and scarcely an improvement upon it.
Royal muscadine (Bot.), a European grape of great value.
Its berries are large, round, and of a pale amber color.
Called also golden chasselas.
[1913 Webster]Muscardin \Mus"car*din\, n. [F., fr. muscadin a musk-scented
lozenge, fr. muscade nutmeg, fr. L. muscus musk. See
Muscadel.] (Zool.)
The common European dormouse; -- so named from its odor.
[Written also muscadine.]
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muscadine (gcide) | Grapevine \Grape"vine`\, n. (Bot.)
A vine or climbing shrub, of the genus Vitis, having small
green flowers and lobed leaves, and bearing the fruit called
grapes.
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Note: The common grapevine of the Old World is {Vitis
vinifera}, and is a native of Central Asia. Another
variety is that yielding small seedless grapes commonly
called Zante currants. The northern Fox grape of
the United States is the V. Labrusca, from which, by
cultivation, has come the Isabella variety. The
southern Fox grape, or Muscadine, is the {V.
vulpina}. The Frost grape is V. cordifolia, which
has very fragrant flowers, and ripens after the early
frosts.
[1913 Webster]Muscadine \Mus"ca*dine\, n. [See Muscadel.]
1. (Bot.) A name given to several very different kinds of
grapes, but in America used chiefly for the scuppernong,
or southern fox grape, which is said to be the parent
stock of the Catawba. See Grapevine.
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2. (Bot.) A fragrant and delicious pear.
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3. (Zool.) See Muscardin.
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Northern muscadine (Bot.), a derivative of the northern fox
grape, and scarcely an improvement upon it.
Royal muscadine (Bot.), a European grape of great value.
Its berries are large, round, and of a pale amber color.
Called also golden chasselas.
[1913 Webster]Muscardin \Mus"car*din\, n. [F., fr. muscadin a musk-scented
lozenge, fr. muscade nutmeg, fr. L. muscus musk. See
Muscadel.] (Zool.)
The common European dormouse; -- so named from its odor.
[Written also muscadine.]
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Northern muscadine (gcide) | Muscadine \Mus"ca*dine\, n. [See Muscadel.]
1. (Bot.) A name given to several very different kinds of
grapes, but in America used chiefly for the scuppernong,
or southern fox grape, which is said to be the parent
stock of the Catawba. See Grapevine.
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2. (Bot.) A fragrant and delicious pear.
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3. (Zool.) See Muscardin.
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Northern muscadine (Bot.), a derivative of the northern fox
grape, and scarcely an improvement upon it.
Royal muscadine (Bot.), a European grape of great value.
Its berries are large, round, and of a pale amber color.
Called also golden chasselas.
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Royal muscadine (gcide) | Muscadine \Mus"ca*dine\, n. [See Muscadel.]
1. (Bot.) A name given to several very different kinds of
grapes, but in America used chiefly for the scuppernong,
or southern fox grape, which is said to be the parent
stock of the Catawba. See Grapevine.
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2. (Bot.) A fragrant and delicious pear.
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3. (Zool.) See Muscardin.
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Northern muscadine (Bot.), a derivative of the northern fox
grape, and scarcely an improvement upon it.
Royal muscadine (Bot.), a European grape of great value.
Its berries are large, round, and of a pale amber color.
Called also golden chasselas.
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Scad (gcide) | Friar \Fri"ar\, n. [OR. frere, F. fr[`e]re brother, friar, fr.
L. frater brother. See Brother.]
1. (R. C. Ch.) A brother or member of any religious order,
but especially of one of the four mendicant orders, viz:
(a) Minors, Gray Friars, or Franciscans. {(b)
Augustines}. (c) Dominicans or Black Friars. {(d) White
Friars or Carmelites.} See these names in the Vocabulary.
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2. (Print.) A white or pale patch on a printed page.
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3. (Zool.) An American fish; the silversides.
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Friar bird (Zool.), an Australian bird ({Tropidorhynchus
corniculatus}), having the head destitute of feathers; --
called also coldong, leatherhead, pimlico; {poor
soldier}, and four-o'clock. The name is also applied to
several other species of the same genus.
Friar's balsam (Med.), a stimulating application for wounds
and ulcers, being an alcoholic solution of benzoin,
styrax, tolu balsam, and aloes; compound tincture of
benzoin. --Brande & C.
Friar's cap (Bot.), the monkshood.
Friar's cowl (Bot.), an arumlike plant (Arisarum vulgare)
with a spathe or involucral leaf resembling a cowl.
Friar's lantern, the ignis fatuus or Will-o'-the-wisp.
--Milton.
Friar skate (Zool.), the European white or sharpnosed skate
(Raia alba); -- called also Burton skate, {border
ray}, scad, and doctor.
[1913 Webster]Scad \Scad\, n. [Gael. & Ir. sgadan a herring.] (Zool.)
(a) A small carangoid fish (Trachurus saurus) abundant on
the European coast, and less common on the American. The
name is applied also to several allied species.
(b) The goggler; -- called also big-eyed scad. See
Goggler.
(c) The friar skate. [Scot.]
(d) The cigar fish, or round robin.
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scads (gcide) | carangid \carangid\ n.
any fish of the family Carangidae, including the
cavallas, jacks, pompanos and scads.
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white muscadine (gcide) | Sweetwater \Sweet"wa`ter\, n. (Bot.)
A variety of white grape, having a sweet watery juice; --
also called white sweetwater, and white muscadine.
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ambuscade (wn) | ambuscade
n 1: the act of concealing yourself and lying in wait to attack
by surprise [syn: ambush, ambuscade, lying in wait,
trap]
v 1: wait in hiding to attack [syn: ambush, scupper,
bushwhack, waylay, lurk, ambuscade, lie in wait] |
big-eyed scad (wn) | big-eyed scad
n 1: of Atlantic coastal waters; commonly used for bait [syn:
bigeye scad, big-eyed scad, goggle-eye, {Selar
crumenophthalmus}] |
bigeye scad (wn) | bigeye scad
n 1: of Atlantic coastal waters; commonly used for bait [syn:
bigeye scad, big-eyed scad, goggle-eye, {Selar
crumenophthalmus}] |
cascade (wn) | cascade
n 1: a small waterfall or series of small waterfalls
2: a succession of stages or operations or processes or units;
"progressing in severity as though a cascade of genetic
damage was occurring"; "separation of isotopes by a cascade
of processes"
3: a sudden downpour (as of tears or sparks etc) likened to a
rain shower; "a little shower of rose petals"; "a sudden
cascade of sparks" [syn: shower, cascade]
v 1: rush down in big quantities, like a cascade [syn:
cascade, cascade down]
2: arrange (open windows) on a computer desktop so that they
overlap each other, with the title bars visible |
cascade down (wn) | cascade down
v 1: rush down in big quantities, like a cascade [syn:
cascade, cascade down] |
cascade everlasting (wn) | cascade everlasting
n 1: shrub with white woolly branches and woolly leaves having
fragrant flowers forming long sprays; flowers suitable for
drying; sometimes placed in genus Helichrysum [syn:
cascade everlasting, Ozothamnus secundiflorus,
Helichrysum secundiflorum] |
cascade liquefier (wn) | cascade liquefier
n 1: an apparatus used to liquefy air or oxygen etc. |
cascade mountains (wn) | Cascade Mountains
n 1: a mountain range in the northwestern United States
extending through Washington and Oregon and northern
California; a part of the Coast Range [syn: Cascades,
Cascade Range, Cascade Mountains] |
cascade penstemon (wn) | cascade penstemon
n 1: whorls of deep blue to dark purple flowers at tips of erect
leafy stems; moist places from British Columbia to Oregon
[syn: cascade penstemon, Penstemon serrulatus] |
cascade range (wn) | Cascade Range
n 1: a mountain range in the northwestern United States
extending through Washington and Oregon and northern
California; a part of the Coast Range [syn: Cascades,
Cascade Range, Cascade Mountains] |
cascade transformer (wn) | cascade transformer
n 1: a number of transformers in series; provides a high-voltage
source |
cascades (wn) | Cascades
n 1: a mountain range in the northwestern United States
extending through Washington and Oregon and northern
California; a part of the Coast Range [syn: Cascades,
Cascade Range, Cascade Mountains] |
cascades frog (wn) | cascades frog
n 1: mountain frog found near water; of United States Northwest
to California [syn: cascades frog, Rana cascadae] |
cascading menu (wn) | cascading menu
n 1: a secondary menu that appears while you are holding the
cursor over an item on the primary menu [syn: {hierarchical
menu}, cascading menu, submenu] |
escadrille (wn) | escadrille
n 1: a small squadron
2: an air force squadron typically containing six airplanes (as
in France during World War I) |
mackerel scad (wn) | mackerel scad
n 1: small silvery fish; Nova Scotia to Brazil [syn: {mackerel
scad}, mackerel shad, Decapterus macarellus] |
muscadel (wn) | muscadel
n 1: wine from muscat grapes [syn: muscat, muscatel,
muscadel, muscadelle] |
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