Aethiops mineral () Same as Ethiops mineral. |
Cologne earth () An earth of a deep brown color, containing more vegetable than mineral matter |
Cork fossil () A variety of amianthus which is very light, like cork. |
Earth (n.) The globe or planet which we inhabit |
Earth (n.) The solid materials which make up the globe, in distinction from the air or water |
Earth (n.) The softer inorganic matter composing part of the surface of the globe, in distinction from the firm rock |
Earth (n.) A part of this globe |
Earth (n.) Worldly things, as opposed to spiritual things |
Earth (n.) The people on the globe. |
Earth (n.) Any earthy-looking metallic oxide, as alumina, glucina, zirconia, yttria, and thoria. |
Earth (n.) A similar oxide, having a slight alkaline reaction, as lime, magnesia, strontia, baryta. |
Earth (n.) A hole in the ground, where an animal hides himself |
Earth (v. t.) To hide, or cause to hide, in the earth |
Earth (v. t.) To cover with earth or mold |
Earth (v. i.) To burrow. |
Earth (n.) A plowing. |
Earth flax () A variety of asbestus. See Amianthus. |
Earth shine () See Earth light, under Earth. |
Earth-tongue (n.) A fungus of the genus Geoglossum. |
Fossil (a.) Dug out of the earth |
Fossil (a.) Like or pertaining to fossils |
Fossil (n.) A substance dug from the earth. |
Fossil (n.) The remains of an animal or plant found in stratified rocks. Most fossils belong to extinct species, but many of the later ones belong to species still living. |
Fossil (n.) A person whose views and opinions are extremely antiquated |
Middle-earth (n.) The world, considered as lying between heaven and hell. |
Mineral (v. i.) An inorganic species or substance occurring in nature, having a definite chemical composition and usually a distinct crystalline form. Rocks, except certain glassy igneous forms, are either simple minerals or aggregates of minerals. |
Mineral (v. i.) A mine. |
Mineral (v. i.) Anything which is neither animal nor vegetable, as in the most general classification of things into three kingdoms (animal, vegetable, and mineral). |
Mineral (a.) Of or pertaining to minerals |
Mineral (a.) Impregnated with minerals |
Native (a.) Arising by birth |
Native (a.) Of or pertaining to one's birth |
Native (a.) Born in the region in which one lives |
Native (a.) Original |
Native (a.) Conferred by birth |
Native (a.) Naturally related |
Native (a.) Found in nature uncombined with other elements |
Native (a.) Found in nature |
Native (n.) One who, or that which, is born in a place or country referred to |
Native (n.) Any of the live stock found in a region, as distinguished from such as belong to pure and distinct imported breeds. |
Ozocerite (n.) A waxlike mineral resin |
native | indigenous plants and animals |
scorched-earth policy | the target company defends itself by selling off its crown jewels |
koala koala bear kangaroo bear native bear Phascolarctos cinereus | sluggish tailless Australian arboreal marsupial with grey furry ears and coat, feeds on eucalyptus leaves and bark |
native cat Dasyurus viverrinus | carnivorous arboreal cat-like marsupials of Australia and Tasmania |
ground earth | a connection between an electrical device and a large conducting body, such as the earth (which is taken to be at zero voltage) |
worldly concern earthly concern world earth | the concerns of this life as distinguished from heaven and the afterlife, they consider the church to be independent of the world |
earth science | any of the sciences that deal with the earth or its parts |
native language | the language that a person has spoken from earliest childhood |
tremor earth tremor microseism | a small earthquake |
quandong quandang quantong native peach | red Australian fruit, used for dessert or in jam |
mineral water | water naturally or artificially impregnated with mineral salts or gasses, often effervescent, often used therapeutically |
mineral kingdom | all inorganic objects, contrasts with animal and plant kingdoms |
a Hizballah Hezbollah Hizbollah Hizbullah Lebanese Hizballah Party of God Islamic Jihad Islamic Jihad for the Liberation of Palestine Revolutionary Justice Organization Organization of the Oppressed on Earth | a Shiite terrorist organization with strong ties to Iran, seeks to create an Iranian fundamentalist Islamic state in Lebanon, car bombs are the signature weapon |
fatherland homeland motherland mother country country of origin native land | the country where you were born |
Earth earth | the abode of mortals (as contrasted with Heaven or Hell), it was hell on earth |
hell hell on earth hellhole snake pit the pits inferno | any place of pain and turmoil, the hell of battle, the inferno of the engine room, when you're alone Christmas is the pits, |
crust Earth's crust | the outer layer of the Earth |
Earth earth world globe | the rd planet from the sun, the planet we live on, the Earth moves around the sun, he sailed around the world |
fossil | the remains (or an impression) of a plant or animal that existed in a past geological age and that has been excavated from the soil |
index fossil guide fossil | a fossil known to have lived in a particular geologic age that can be used to date the rock layer in which it is found |
land dry land earth ground solid ground terra firma | the solid part of the earth's surface, the plane turned away from the sea and moved back over land, the earth shook for several minutes, he dropped the logs on the ground |
surface Earth's surface | the outermost level of the land or sea, earthquakes originate far below the surface, three quarters of the Earth's surface is covered by water |
vein mineral vein | a layer of ore between layers of rock |
earth-god earth god | a god of fertility and vegetation |
earth-goddess earth goddess | a goddess of fertility and vegetation |
earth mother | the earth conceived of as the female principle of fertility |
native indigen indigene aborigine aboriginal | an indigenous person who was born in a particular place, the art of the natives of the northwest coast, the Canadian government scrapped plans to tax the grants to aboriginal college students |
native | a person born in a particular place or country, he is a native of Brazil |
Amerindian Native American | any member of the peoples living in North or South America before the Europeans arrived |
Aborigine Abo Aboriginal native Australian Australian Aborigine | a dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived |
Alaska Native Alaskan Native Native Alaskan | a member or descendant of any of the aboriginal peoples of Alaska |
Native Hawaiian | a member or descendant of the indigenous Polynesian people who lived in the Hawaiian Islands |
dodo fogy fogey fossil | someone whose style is out of fashion |
native speaker | a speaker of a particular language who has spoken that language since earliest childhood, native speakers of French |
native pomegranate Capparis arborea | small Australian tree bearing edible fruit resembling the pomegranate |
native orange Capparis mitchellii | small Australian tree bearing edible dark purple fruit |
lion's foot gall of the earth Nabalus serpentarius Prenanthes serpentaria | common perennial herb widely distributed in the southern and eastern United States having drooping clusters of pinkish flowers and thick basal leaves suggesting a lion's foot in shape, sometimes placed in genus Prenanthes |
chufa yellow nutgrass earth almond ground almond rush nut Cyperus esculentus | European sedge having small edible nutlike tubers |
native pear woody pear Xylomelum pyriforme | tree bearing pear-shaped fruit with a thick woody epicarp |
native cranberry groundberry ground-berry cranberry heath Astroloma humifusum Styphelia humifusum | small prostrate or ascending shrub having scarlet flowers and succulent fruit resembling cranberries, sometimes placed in genus Styphelia |
konini tree fuchsia native fuchsia Fuchsia excorticata | erect deciduous shrub or tree tofeet with maroon flowers, New Zealand |
heath pea earth-nut pea earthnut pea tuberous vetch Lathyrus tuberosus | European herb bearing small tubers used for food and in Scotland to flavor whiskey |
common flat pea native holly Playlobium obtusangulum | low spreading evergreen shrub of southern Australia having triangular to somewhat heart-shaped foliage and orange-yellow flowers followed by flat winged pods |
native beech flindosa flindosy Flindersia australis | tall Australian timber tree yielding tough hard wood used for staves etc |
wild potato vine wild sweet potato vine man-of-the-earth manroot scammonyroot Ipomoea panurata Ipomoea fastigiata | tropical American prostrate or climbing herbaceous perennial having an enormous starchy root, sometimes held to be source of the sweet potato |
man-of-the-earth Ipomoea leptophylla | a morning glory with long roots of western United States |
truffle earthnut earth-ball | any of various highly prized edible subterranean fungi of the genus Tuber, grow naturally in southwestern Europe |
earthtongue earth-tongue | any club-shaped fungus of the genus Geoglossum |
mineral resources | natural resources in the form of minerals |
mineral extraction mineral processing mineral dressing ore processing ore dressing beneficiation | crushing and separating ore into valuable substances or waste by any of a variety of techniques |