Atlantic
(a.) Of or pertaining to Mt. Atlas in Libya, and hence applied to the ocean which lies between Europe and Africa on the east and America on the west |
Atlantic
(a.) Of or pertaining to the isle of Atlantis. |
Atlantic
(a.) Descended from Atlas. |
Bank-sided
(a.) Having sides inclining inwards, as a ship |
Beaked
(a.) Having a beak or a beaklike point |
Beaked
(a.) Furnished with a process or a mouth like a beak |
Cream-white
(a.) As white as cream. |
Dolphin
(n.) A cetacean of the genus Delphinus and allied genera (esp. D. delphis) |
Dolphin
(n.) The Coryphaena hippuris, a fish of about five feet in length, celebrated for its surprising changes of color when dying. It is the fish commonly known as the dolphin. See Coryphaenoid. |
Dolphin
(n.) A mass of iron or lead hung from the yardarm, in readiness to be dropped on the deck of an enemy's vessel. |
Dolphin
(n.) A kind of wreath or strap of plaited cordage. |
Dolphin
(n.) A spar or buoy held by an anchor and furnished with a ring to which ships may fasten their cables. |
Dolphin
(n.) A mooring post on a wharf or beach. |
Dolphin
(n.) A permanent fender around a heavy boat just below the gunwale. |
Dolphin
(n.) In old ordnance, one of the handles above the trunnions by which the gun was lifted. |
Dolphin
(n.) A small constellation between Aquila and Pegasus. See Delphinus, n., 2. |
Dusky
(a.) Partially dark or obscure |
Dusky
(a.) Tending to blackness in color |
Dusky
(a.) Gloomy |
Dusky
(a.) Intellectually clouded. |
Genus
(n.) A class of objects divided into several subordinate species |
Genus
(n.) An assemblage of species, having so many fundamental points of structure in common, that in the judgment of competent scientists, they may receive a common substantive name. A genus is not necessarily the lowest definable group of species, for it may often be divided into several subgenera. In proportion as its definition is exact, it is natural genus |
Hourglass
(n.) An instrument for measuring time, especially the interval of an hour. It consists of a glass vessel having two compartments, from the uppermost of which a quantity of sand, water, or mercury occupies an hour in running through a small aperture unto the lower. |
Iron-sided
(a.) Having iron sides, or very firm sides. |
Many-sided
(a.) Having many sides |
Many-sided
(a.) Interested in, and having an aptitude for, many unlike pursuits or objects of attention |
One-sided
(a.) Having one side only, or one side prominent |
One-sided
(a.) Growing on one side of a stem |
Pacific
(a.) Of or pertaining to peace |
Schwann's white substance
() The substance of the medullary sheath. |
Sided
(imp. & p. p.) of Side |
Sided
(a.) Having (such or so many) sides |
Slab-sided
(a.) Having flat sides |
Snow-white
(a.) White as snow |
Three-sided
(a.) Having three sides, especially three plane sides |
Two-sided
(a.) Having two sides only |
Two-sided
(a.) Symmetrical. |
Wall-sided
(a.) Having sides nearly perpendicular |
Water-white
(n.) A vinelike plant (Vitis Caribaea) growing in parched districts in the West Indies, and containing a great amount of sap which is sometimes used for quenching thirst. |
White
(superl.) Reflecting to the eye all the rays of the spectrum combined |
White
(superl.) Destitute of color, as in the cheeks, or of the tinge of blood color |
White
(superl.) Having the color of purity |
White
(superl.) Gray, as from age |
White
(superl.) Characterized by freedom from that which disturbs, and the like |
White
(superl.) Regarded with especial favor |
White
(n.) The color of pure snow |
White
(n.) Something having the color of snow |
White
(n.) Specifically, the central part of the butt in archery, which was formerly painted white |
White
(n.) A person with a white skin |
White
(n.) A white pigment |
whitelash
white backlash | backlash by white racists against black civil rights advances |
| dolphin kick | a swimming kick, an up and down kick of the feet together |
| white sale | a sale of household linens |
| white man's burden | the supposed responsibility of the white race to provide care for their non-white subjects |
| form genus | an artificial taxonomic category established on the basis of morphological resemblance for organisms of obscure true relationships especially fossil forms |
Heliobacter
genus Heliobacter | a genus of helical or curved or straight aerobic bacteria with rounded ends and multiple flagella, found in the gastric mucosa of primates (including humans) |
| bacteria genus | a genus of bacteria |
Aerobacter
genus Aerobacter | aerobic bacteria widely distributed in nature |
Rhizobium
genus Rhizobium | the type genus of Rhizobiaceae, usually occur in the root nodules of legumes, can fix atmospheric oxygen |
Agrobacterium
genus Agrobacterium | small motile bacterial rods that can reduce nitrates and cause galls on plant stems |
| genus Bacillus | type genus of the Bacillaceae, includes many saprophytes important in decay of organic matter and a number of parasites |
| genus Clostridium | anaerobic or micro-aerophilic rod-shaped or spindle-shaped saprophytes, nearly cosmopolitan in soil, animal intestines, and dung |
| genus Nostoc | type genus of the family Nostocaceae: freshwater blue-green algae |
| genus Trichodesmium | a genus of blue-green algae |
Pseudomonas
genus Pseudomonas | type genus of the family Pseudomonodaceae |
Xanthomonas
genus Xanthomonas | a genus of bacteria similar to Pseudomonas but producing a yellow pigment that is not soluble in water |
Nitrobacter
genus Nitrobacter | rod-shaped soil bacteria |
Nitrosomonas
genus Nitrosomonas | ellipsoidal soil bacteria |
| genus Thiobacillus | a genus of bacteria |
| genus Spirillum | a genus of bacteria |
| genus Vibrio | a genus of bacteria |
Bacteroides
genus Bacteroides | type genus of Bacteroidaceae, genus of Gram-negative rodlike anaerobic bacteria producing no endospores and no pigment and living in the gut of man and animals |
Calymmatobacterium
genus Calymmatobacterium | a genus of bacterial rods containing only the one species that causes granuloma inguinale |
Francisella
genus Francisella | a genus of Gram-negative aerobic bacteria that occur as pathogens and parasite in many animals (including humans) |
| genus Corynebacterium | the type genus of the family Corynebacteriaceae which is widely distributed in nature, the best known are parasites and pathogens of humans and domestic animals |
| genus Listeria | a genus of aerobic motile bacteria of the family Corynebacteriaceae containing small Gram-positive rods |
| genus Escherichia | a genus of bacteria |
| genus Klebsiella | a genus of bacteria |
| genus Salmonella | a genus of bacteria |
genus Serratia
Serratia | a genus of motile peritrichous bacteria that contain small Gram-negative rod |
| genus Shigella | a genus of bacteria |
| genus Erwinia | a genus of bacteria |
| genus Rickettsia | can cause typhus and Rocky Mountain spotted fever in humans |
| genus Chlamydia | type genus of the family Chlamydiaceae: diseaseausing parasites |
| genus Mycoplasma | type and sole genus of the family Mycoplasmataceae |
| genus Actinomyces | type genus of the family Actinomycetaceae |
| genus Streptomyces | type genus of the family Streptomycetaceae |
| genus Mycobacterium | nonmotile Gram-positive aerobic bacteria |
Polyangium
genus Polyangium | type genus of the family Polyangiaceae: myxobacteria with rounded fruiting bodies enclosed in a membrane |
Micrococcus
genus Micrococcus | type genus of the family Micrococcaceae |
| genus Staphylococcus | includes many pathogenic species |
| genus Lactobacillus | type genus of the family Lactobacillaceae |
| genus Diplococcus | a genus of bacteria |
| genus Streptococcus | a genus of bacteria |
Spirochaeta
genus Spirochaeta | the type genus of the family Spirochaetaceae, a bacterium that is flexible, undulating, and chiefly aquatic |
| genus Treponema | type genus of Treponemataceae: anaerobic spirochetes with an undulating rigid body, parasitic in warm-blooded animals |
| genus Borrelia | small flexible parasitic spirochetes having three to five wavy spirals |
| genus Leptospira | very slender aerobic spirochetes, free-living or parasitic in mammals |
| protoctist genus | any genus of Protoctista |
| genus Amoeba | protozoan inhabiting moist soils or bottom vegetation in fresh or salt water |