escapade
lark | any carefree episode |
tall order
large order | a formidable task or requirement, finishing in time was a tall order but we did it |
| lark | any of numerous predominantly Old World birds noted for their singing |
pipit
titlark
lark | a songbird that lives mainly on the ground in open country, has streaky brown plumage |
meadowlark
lark | North American songbirds having a yellow breast |
long-billed marsh wren
Cistothorus palustris | American wren that inhabits tall reed beds |
sedge wren short-billed marsh wren
Cistothorus platensis | small American wren inhabiting wet sedgy meadows |
hadrosaur
hadrosaurus
duck-billed dinosaur | any of numerous large bipedal ornithischian dinosaurs having a horny duck-like bill and webbed feet, may have been partly aquatic |
black-billed cuckoo
Coccyzus erythropthalmus | North American cuckoo, builds a nest and rears its own young |
ivorybill
ivory-billed woodpecker
Campephilus principalis | large black-and-white woodpecker of southern United States and Cuba having an ivory bill, nearly extinct |
platypus
duckbill duckbilled platypus
duck-billed platypus
Ornithorhynchus anatinus | small densely furred aquatic monotreme of Australia and Tasmania having a broad bill and tail and webbed feet, only species in the family Ornithorhynchidae |
boatbill
boat-billed heron
broadbill Cochlearius cochlearius | tropical American heron related to night herons |
razorbill
razor-billed auk
Alca torda | black-and-white northern Atlantic auk having a compressed sharp-edged bill |
thick-billed murre
Uria lomvia | a variety of murre |
pied-billed grebe
Podilymbus podiceps | American grebe having a black-banded whitish bill |
| large poodle | the largest breed of poodle |
large civet
Viverra zibetha | common civet of India and southeast Asia |
large white
Pieris brassicae | Old World form of cabbage butterfly |
| extra large | a garment size for a very large person |
| large | a garment size for a large person |
| large intestine | beginning with the cecum and ending with the rectum, includes the cecum and the colon and the rectum, extracts moisture from food residues which are later excreted as feces |
Bernoulli's law
law of large numbers | (statistics) law stating that a large number of items taken at random from a population will (on the average) have the population statistics |
| large cap | a corporation with a large capitalization, he works for a large cap |
| Large Magellanic Cloud | the larger of the two Magellanic Clouds visible from the southern hemisphere |
| large person | a person of greater than average size |
southern magnolia
evergreen magnolia
large-flowering magnolia
bull bay
Magnolia grandiflora | evergreen tree of southern United States having large stiff glossy leaves and huge white sweet-smelling flowers |
large-leaved magnolia
large-leaved cucumber tree
great-leaved macrophylla
Magnolia macrophylla | large deciduous shrub or tree of southeastern United States having huge leaves in dense false whorls and large creamy flowers tinged purple toward the base |
large periwinkle
Vinca major | plant having variegated foliage and used for window boxes |
large-leaved aster
Aster macrophyllus | tufted perennial wood aster of North America, naturalized in Europe |
large yellow lady's slipper
Cypripedium calceolus pubescens | plant of eastern and central North America having slightly fragrant purple-marked greenish-yellow flowers |
large crabgrass
hairy finger grass
Digitaria sanguinalis | a European forage grass grown for hay, a naturalized weed in United States |
American cranberry
large cranberry
Vaccinium macrocarpon | trailing red-fruited plant |
Canadian aspen
bigtooth aspen
bigtoothed aspen
big-toothed aspen
large-toothed aspen
large tooth aspen
Populus grandidentata | aspen with a narrow crown, eastern North America |
large-flowered fiddleneck
Amsinckia grandiflora | annual of the western United States having large coiled flower spikes, a threatened species |
large-flowered calamint
Calamintha grandiflora
Clinopodium grandiflorum
Satureja grandiflora | aromatic herb with large pink flowers, southern and southeastern Europe, Anatolia, northern Iran |
large white petunia
Petunia axillaris | annual herb having large nocturnally fragrant white flowers |
Calorie kilogram calorie
kilocalorie
large calorie
nutritionist's calorie | a unit of heat equal to the amount of heat required to raise the temperature of one kilogram of water by one degree at one atmosphere pressure, used by nutritionists to characterize the energy-producing potential in food |
| large integer | an integer equal to or greater than ten |
large indefinite quantity
large indefinite amount | an indefinite quantity that is above the average in size or magnitude |
battalion
large number
multitude
plurality pack | a large indefinite number, a battalion of ants, a multitude of TV antennas, a plurality of religions |
c frolic
lark
rollick
skylark
disport
sport
cavort
gambol
frisk
romp
run around
lark about
aa | play boisterously, The children frolicked in the garden, the gamboling lambs in the meadows, The toddlers romped in the playroom |
| brood hover loom bulk large | hang over, as of something threatening, dark, or menacing, The terrible vision brooded over her all day long |
big(p)
enceinte
expectant
gravid
great(p)
large(p)
heavy(p)
with child(p) | in an advanced stage of pregnancy, was big with child, was great with child |
| billed | having a beak or bill as specified, a thick-billed bird, a long-billed cap |
duckbill
duck-billed | having a beak resembling that of a duck, a duck-billed dinosaur |
short-beaked
short-billed | having a short beak |
| stout-billed | having a strong beak |
| straight-billed | having a straight beak |
| thick-billed | having a thick beak |
broad
large-minded
liberal
tolerant | showing or characterized by broad-mindedness, a broad political stance, generous and broad sympathies, a liberal newspaper, tolerant of his opponent's opinions |