tall order large order | a formidable task or requirement, finishing in time was a tall order but we did it |
silkworm seed | eggs of a silkworm |
finch | any of numerous small songbirds with short stout bills adapted for crushing seeds |
pine siskin pine finch Spinus pinus | small finch of North American coniferous forests |
house finch linnet Carpodacus mexicanus | small finch originally of the western United States and Mexico |
purple finch Carpodacus purpureus | North American finch having a raspberryed head and breast and rump |
vesper sparrow grass finch Pooecetes gramineus | common North American finch noted for its evening song |
indigo bunting indigo finch indigo bird Passerina cyanea | small deep blue North American bunting |
weaver weaverbird weaver finch | finch-like African and Asian colonial birds noted for their elaborately woven nests |
Java sparrow Java finch ricebird Padda oryzivora | small finch-like Indonesian weaverbird that frequents rice fields |
grassfinch grass finch | usually brightlyolored Australian weaverbirds, often kept as cage birds |
zebra finch Poephila castanotis | small Australian weaverbird with markings like a zebra's |
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 |
seed oyster | a young oyster especially of a size for transplantation |
seed shrimp mussel shrimp ostracod | tiny marine and freshwater crustaceans with a shrimp-like body enclosed in a bivalve shell |
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 |
seed beetle seed weevil | a small beetle that infests the seeds of legumes |
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 |
semen seed seminal fluid ejaculate cum come | the thick white fluid containing spermatozoa that is ejaculated by the male genital tract |
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 |
source seed germ | anything that provides inspiration for later work |
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 |
seed catalog seed catalogue | a list advertising seeds and their prices |
seedcake seed cake | a sweet cake flavored with sesame or caraway seeds and lemon |
sunflower oil sunflower-seed oil | oil from sunflower seeds |
caraway seed bread | bread containing caraway seeds |
edible seed | many are used as seasoning |
pumpkin seed | the edible seed of a pumpkin |
sunflower seed | edible seed of sunflowers, used as food and poultry feed and as a source of oil |
canary seed | a mixture of seeds used to feed caged birds |
cumin cumin seed | aromatic seeds of the cumin herb of the carrot family |
coriander coriander seed | dried coriander seeds used whole or ground |
fennel seed | aromatic anis-scented seeds |
fenugreek fenugreek seed | aromatic seeds used as seasoning especially in curry |
mustard seed | black or white seeds ground to make mustard pastes or powders |
anise aniseed anise seed | liquorice-flavored seeds, used medicinally and in cooking and liquors |
sesame seed benniseed | small oval seeds of the sesame plant |
caraway seed | aromatic seeds of the caraway plant, used widely as seasoning |