plain sailing clear sailing easy going | easy unobstructed progress, after we solved that problem the rest was plain sailing |
crested myna Acridotheres tristis | dark brown crested bird of southeastern Asia |
tree swift crested swift | birds of southeast Asia and East Indies differing from true swifts in having upright crests and nesting in trees |
crested screamer | distinguished from the horned screamer by a feathery crest on the back of the head |
crested cariama seriema Cariama cristata | Brazilian Cariama, sole representative of the genus Cariama |
plain turkey Choriotis australis | popular Australian game bird |
plain wanderer Pedionomus torquatus | small Australian bird related to the button quail, classified as wading bird but inhabits plains |
great crested grebe Podiceps cristatus | large Old World grebe with black ear tufts |
rock hopper crested penguin | small penguin of the Falkland Islands and New Zealand |
civilian clothing civilian dress civilian garb plain clothes | ordinary clothing as distinguished from uniforms, work clothes, clerical garb, etc. |
knit knit stitch plain plain stitch | a basic knitting stitch |
plain weave taffeta weave | a basic style of weave in which the weft and warp threads intertwine alternately to produce a checkerboard effect |
plain flour | flour that does not contain a raising agent |
Nullarbor Plain | a vast arid plain of southern Australia stretching inland from the Great Australian Bight, has sparse vegetation and no surface water and is almost uninhabited, the site of a major rocket research center |
Serengeti Serengeti Plain | a vast plain in Tanzania to the west of the Great Rift Valley known for its wildlife |
alluvial flat alluvial plain | a flat resulting from repeated deposits of alluvial material by running water |
coastal plain | a plain adjacent to a coast |
floodplain flood plain | a low plain adjacent to a river that is formed chiefly of river sediment and is subject to flooding |
plain field champaign | extensive tract of level open land, they emerged from the woods onto a vast open plain, he longed for the fields of his youth |
salt flat salt plain | a flat expanse of salt left by the evaporation of a body of salt water |
crested coral root Hexalectris spicata | orchid with yellowish-brown flowers with dark veins, southeastern Arizona to the eastern United States |
crested wheatgrass crested wheat grass fairway crested wheat grass Agropyron cristatum | Eurasian grass grown in United States great plains area for forage and erosion control |
complain kick plain sound off quetch kvetch | express complaints, discontent, displeasure, or unhappiness, My mother complains all day, She has a lot to kick about |
crested plumed | (of a knight's helmet) having a decorative plume |
crested topknotted tufted | (of a bird or animal) having a usually ornamental tuft or process on the head, often used in combination, golden crested, crested iris, crested oriole, tufted duck, tufted loosestrife |
crested | bearing an heraldic device |
plain bare spare unembellished unornamented | lacking embellishment or ornamentation, a plain hair style, unembellished white walls, functional architecture featuring stark unornamented concrete |
homely plain | lacking in physical beauty or proportion, a homely child, several of the buildings were downright homely, a plain girl with a freckled face |
plain unvarnished | free from any effort to soften to disguise, the plain and unvarnished truth, the unvarnished candor of old people and children |
apparent evident manifest patent plain unmistakable | clearly revealed to the mind or the senses or judgment, the effects of the drought are apparent to anyone who sees the parched fields, evident hostility, manifest disapproval, patent advantages, made his meaning plain, it is plain that he is no reactionary, in plain view |
plain unpatterned | lacking patterns especially in color |
plain | not elaborate or elaborated, simple, plain food, stuck to the plain facts, a plain blue suit, a plain rectangular brick building |
plain sheer unmingled unmixed | not mixed with extraneous elements, plain water, sheer wine, not an unmixed blessing |
plain-woven | (of cloth) made in plain weave |
obviously evidently manifestly patently apparently plainly plain | unmistakably (`plain' is often used informally for `plainly'), the answer is obviously wrong, she was in bed and evidently in great pain, he was manifestly too important to leave off the guest list, it is all patently nonsense, she has apparently been living here for some time, I thought he owned the property, but apparently not, You are plainly wrong, he is plain stubborn |