tabby queen | female cat |
queen bee | fertile egg-laying female bee |
queen | the only fertile female in a colony of social insects such as bees and ants and termites, its function is to lay eggs |
queen queen mole rat | an especially large mole rat and the only member of a colony of naked mole rats to bear offspring which are sired by only a few males |
queen triggerfish Bessy cerca oldwench oldwife Balistes vetula | tropical Atlantic fish |
hangar queen | an airplane with a bad maintenance record |
queen | (chess) the most powerful piece |
queen | one of four face cards in a deck bearing a picture of a queen |
queen post | vertical tie post in a roof truss |
King's English Queen's English | English as spoken by educated persons in southern England |
Queen Maud Land | a region of Antarctica between Enderby Land and the Weddell Sea, claimed by Norway |
Charlotte Queen City | the largest city in North Carolina, located in south central North Carolina |
Queen Charlotte Sound | an inlet of the Pacific Ocean off the coast of British Columbia |
closet queen | a negative term for a homosexual man who chooses not to reveal his sexual orientation |
b fagot faggot fag fairy nance pansy queen queer poof poove pouf | offensive term for an openly homosexual man |
king queen world-beater | a competitor who holds a preeminent position |
May queen queen of the May | the girl chosen queen of a May Day festival |
queen queen regnant female monarch | a female sovereign ruler |
Queen of England | the sovereign ruler of England |
queen | the wife or widow of a king |
queen | something personified as a woman who is considered the best or most important of her kind, Paris is the queen of cities, the queen of ocean liners |
queen consort | the wife of a reigning king |
queen dowager | the widow of a king |
queen mother | a queen dowager who is mother of the reigning sovereign |
queen regent | a queen who serves as ruler when the king cannot |
Queen's Counsel | Counsel to the Crown when the British monarch is a queen |
Isabella Queen Isabella Isabella I Isabella the Catholic | the queen of Castile whose marriage to Ferdinand of Aragon in marked the beginning of the modern state of Spain, they instituted the Spanish Inquisition in and sponsored the voyages of Christopher Columbus in (-) |
Mary Queen of Scots Mary Stuart | queen of Scotland from to , as a Catholic she was forced to abdicate in favor of her son and fled to England where she was imprisoned by Elizabeth I, when Catholic supporters plotted to put her on the English throne she was tried and executed for sedition (-) |
Victoria Queen Victoria | queen of Great Britain and Ireland and empress of India from to , the last Hanoverian ruler of England (-) |
queen of the night Selenicereus grandiflorus | tropical American climbing cactus having triangular branches, often cultivated for its large showy night-blooming flowers followed by yellow red-streaked fruits |
Queen's crape myrtle pride-of-India Lagerstroemia speciosa | native to Asia, Australia, and East Indies, where it provides timber called pyinma, used elsewhere as an ornamental for its large showy flowers |
queen's cup bride's bonnet Clintonia uniflora | plant with or white starlike flowers on short leafless stalks, Alaska to California and east to Oregon and Montana |
wild carrot Queen Anne's lace Daucus carota | a widely naturalized Eurasian herb with finely cut foliage and white compound umbels of small white or yellowish flowers and thin yellowish roots |
queen | become a queen, her pawn queened |
lord it over queen it over put on airs act superior | act like the master of, He is lording it over the students |
queen | promote to a queen, as of a pawn in chess |
queen-size queen-sized | (used especially of beds) not as large as king-size, a queen-sized bed |