parula warbler
northern parula
Parula americana | small grey-blue wood warbler with yellow throat and breast, of eastern North America |
northern oriole
Icterus galbula | a kind of New World oriole |
northern shrike
Lanius borealis | a butcherbird of northern North America |
marsh hawk
northern harrier
hen harrier
Circus cyaneus | common harrier of North America and Europe, nests in marshes and open land |
northern cricket frog
Acris crepitans | a cricket frog of eastern and central United States |
lowland burrowing treefrog
northern casque-headed frog
Pternohyla fodiens | terrestrial burrowing nocturnal frog of grassy terrain and scrub forests having very hard upper surface of head, of the United States southwest |
northern bobwhite
Colinus virginianus | a favorite game bird of eastern and central United States |
American lobster
Northern lobster
Maine lobster
Homarus americanus | lobster of Atlantic coast of America |
northern phalarope
Lobipes lobatus | breeds in Arctic regions of Old and New Worlds, large flocks often seen far out at sea |
stormy petrel
northern storm petrel
Hydrobates pelagicus | sooty black petrel with white markings, of the northern Atlantic and Mediterranean |
ice bear
polar bear
Ursus Maritimus
Thalarctos maritimus | white bear of Arctic regions |
polar hare
Arctic hare
Lepus arcticus | a large hare of northern North America, it is almost completely white in winter |
northern bog lemming
Synaptomys borealis | of wet alpine and subalpine meadows of Canada and Alaska |
northern pocket gopher
Thomomys talpoides | greyish to brown gopher of western and central United States |
northern flying squirrel
Glaucomys sabrinus | large flying squirrel, chiefly of Canada |
woolly mammoth
northern mammoth
Mammuthus primigenius | very hairy mammoth common in colder portions of the northern hemisphere |
| northern snakehead | a voracious freshwater fish that is native to northeastern China, can use fin to walk and can survive out of water for three days, a threat to American populations of fish |
Australian bonytongue
northern barramundi
Scleropages jardinii | a species of large fish found in Australian rivers |
northern pike
Esox lucius | voracious piscivorous pike of waters of northern hemisphere |
scup northern porgy
northern scup
Stenotomus chrysops | found in Atlantic coastal waters of North America from South Carolina to Maine, esteemed as a panfish |
northern whiting
Menticirrhus saxatilis | whiting of the east coast of United States, closely resembles king whiting |
northern sea robin
Prionotus carolinus | large searobin, found from Nova Scotia to Florida |
| polar body | a small cell containing little cytoplasm that is produced along with the oocyte and later discarded |
| polar coordinate | either of two values that locate a point on a plane by its distance from a fixed pole and its angle from a fixed line passing through the pole |
taps
lights-out | (military) signal to turn the lights out |
| Northern | a dialect of Middle English that developed into Scottish Lallans |
| Northern Spy | large lateipening apple with skin striped with yellow and red |
American lobster
Northern lobster
Maine lobster | flesh of cold-water lobsters having large tender claws, caught from Maine to the Carolinas |
American Baptist Convention
Northern Baptist Convention | an association of Northern Baptists |
Northern Alliance
United Front | a multiethnic alliance in Afghanistan who practice a moderate form of Islam and are united in their opposition to the Taliban |
| polar circle | a line of latitude at the north or south poles |
Frigid Zone
polar zone
polar region | the part of the Earth's surface forming a cap over a pole, characterized by frigid climate |
| northern hemisphere | the hemisphere that is to the north of the equator |
| northern Europe | the northernmost countries of Europe |
| Northern Territory | a territory in north central Australia |
Northern Marianas
Northern Mariana Islands | a self-governing territory comprising all of the Mariana Islands except Guam |
United Kingdom
UK
U.K.
Britain
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Great Britain | a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles, divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland, `Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom |
| Northern Ireland | a division of the United Kingdom located on the northern part of the island of Ireland |
Belfast
capital of Northern Ireland | capital and largest city of Northern Ireland, the center of Protestantism in Northern Ireland |
Zambia
Republic of Zambia
Northern Rhodesia | a republic in central Africa, formerly controlled by Great Britain and called Northern Rhodesia until it gained independence within the commonwealth in |
| Northern Cross | a cluster of bright stars forming a cross in the constellation Cygnus |
| polar glacier | a glacier near the Arctic or Antarctic poles |
Polaris
North Star
pole star
polar star
polestar | the brightest star in Ursa Minor, at the end of the handle of the Little Dipper, the northern axis of the earth points toward it |
| Northern Baptist | a member of the American Baptist Convention |
aurora australis
southern lights | the aurora of the southern hemisphere |
aurora borealis
northern lights | the aurora of the northern hemisphere |
cold front
polar front | the front of an advancing mass of colder air |
pitch pine northern pitch pine
Pinus rigida | large three-needled pine of the eastern United States and southeastern Canada, closely related to the pond pine |
American arborvitae
northern white cedar
white cedar Thuja occidentalis | small evergreen of eastern North America having tiny scalelike leaves on flattened branchlets |
northern dune tansy
Tanacetum douglasii | lightly hairy rhizomatous perennial having aromatic feathery leaves and stems bearing open clusters of small buttonlike yellow flowers, sand dunes of Pacific coast of North America |