Wild West Show
Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show | a spectacular show organized in by William F. Cody that featured horseback riding and marksmanship on a large scale, toured the United States and Europe |
West Nile virus
West Nile encephalitis virus | the flavivirus that causes West Nile encephalitis |
Arkansas kingbird
western kingbird | a kingbird seen in western United States, head and back are pale grey and the breast is yellowish and the tail is black |
western wood pewee
Contopus sordidulus | small flycatcher of western North America |
western meadowlark
Sturnella neglecta | a meadowlark of western North America |
western tanager
Piranga ludoviciana | of western North America, male is black and yellow and orangeed |
western red-backed salamander
Plethodon vehiculum | salamander of the Pacific coast of North America |
western toad
Bufo boreas | of a great variety of habitats from southern Alaska to Baja California west of the Rockies |
western spadefoot
Scaphiopus hammondii | this spadefoot toad live in California |
western narrow-mouthed toad
Gastrophryne olivacea | small secretive toad with smooth tough skin of central and western North America |
Western box turtle
Terrapene ornata | primarily a prairie turtle of western United States and northern Mexico |
western fence lizard
swift blue-belly
Sceloporus occidentalis | common western lizard, seen on logs or rocks |
western skink
Eumeces skiltonianus | found in western North American grasslands and open woodlands |
western whiptail
Cnemidophorus tigris | active lizard having a network of dusky dark markings, of semiarid areas from Oregon and Idaho to Baja California |
Western ribbon snake
Thamnophis proximus | yellow- or reddish-striped snake of temperate woodlands and grasslands to tropics |
western blind snake
Leptotyphlops humilis | burrows among roots of shrubs and beneath rocks in desert and rocky hillside areas and beach sand of western United States |
western coral snake
Micruroides euryxanthus | ranges from Central America to southwestern United States |
prairie rattlesnake
prairie rattler
Western rattlesnake
Crotalus viridis | widely distributed between the Mississippi and the Rockies |
Western diamondback
Western diamondback rattlesnake
Crotalus atrox | largest and most dangerous North American snake, of southwestern United States and Mexico |
Ixodes pacificus
western black-legged tick | a tick that feeds on dusky-footed wood rat and bites humans, principal vector for Lyme disease in western United States especially northern California |
| West Highland white terrier | small white longoated terrier developed in Scotland |
western pipistrel
SPipistrellus hesperus | of western North America |
western big-eared bat
Plecotus townsendi | bat of western North America having extremely large ears |
western grey squirrel
western gray squirrel
Sciurus griseus | large grey squirrel of far western areas of United States |
western lowland gorilla
Gorilla gorilla gorilla | a kind of gorilla |
western chimpanzee
Pan troglodytes verus | masked or pale-faced chimpanzees of western Africa, distantly related to the eastern and central chimpanzees, possibly a distinct species |
double-bitted ax
double-bitted axe
Western ax
Western axe | an ax that has cutting edges on both sides of the head |
Mae West
air jacket | an inflatable life jacket |
stock saddle
Western saddle | an ornamented saddle used by cowboys, has a high horn to hold the lariat |
| University of West Virginia | a university in Morgantown, West Virginia |
Western
horse opera | a film about life in the western United States during the period of exploration and development |
| spaghetti Western | a low-budget Western movie produced by a European (especially an Italian) film company |
| Western Malayo-Polynesian | a western subfamily of Malayo-Polynesian languages |
West Germanic
West Germanic language | a branch of the Germanic languages |
| West Midland | a dialect of Middle English |
Southwestern
West Saxon | a dialect of Middle English |
| West Saxon | a literary dialect of Old English |
Kuchean
West Tocharian
Kuchean dialect | a dialect of Tocharian |
| West Chadic | a group of Chadic languages spoken in northern Nigeria, Hausa in the most important member |
| West African | a group of languages spoken in the extreme western part of West Africa |
country music
country and western
C and W | a simple style of folk music heard mostly in the southern United States, usually played on stringed instruments |
western
western sandwich | a sandwich made from a western omelet |
acerola
barbados cherry
surinam cherry
West Indian cherry | acid red or yellow cherry-like fruit of a tropical American shrub very rich in vitamin C |
| western omelet | a firm omelet that has diced ham and peppers and onions |
Roman Catholic
Western Church
Roman Catholic Church
Church of Rome
Roman Church | the Christian Church based in the Vatican and presided over by a pope and an episcopal hierarchy |
Western culture
Western civilization | the modern culture of western Europe and North America, when Ghandi was asked what he thought of Western civilization he said he thought it would be a good idea |
| west | a location in the western part of a country, region, or city |
Midwest
middle west
midwestern United States | the north central region of the United States (sometimes called the heartland or the breadbasket of America) |
| west side | the side that is on the west |
| east-west direction | in a direction parallel with lines of latitude |