greater whitethroat
whitethroat Sylvia communis | greyish-brown Old World warbler with a white throat and underparts |
blue-headed vireo
Vireo solitarius solitarius | common vireo of northeastern North America with bluish slaty-grey head |
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 |
| bone-headed dinosaur | bipedal herbivorous dinosaurs with bony crowns |
| black-headed snake | small secretive ground-living snake, found from central United States to Argentina |
rubber boa
tow-headed snake
Charina bottae | boa of grasslands and woodlands of western North America, looks and feels like rubber with tail and head of similar shape |
greater prairie chicken
Tympanuchus cupido | the most common variety of prairie chicken |
greater scaup
Aythya marila | large scaup of North America having a greenish iridescence on the head of the male |
acanthocephalan
spiny-headed worm | any of various worms living parasitically in intestines of vertebrates having a retractile proboscis covered with many hooked spines |
greater yellowlegs
Tringa melanoleuca | a variety of yellowlegs |
white-headed stilt
Himantopus himantopus leucocephalus | stilt of the southwest Pacific including Australia and New Zealand having mostly white plumage but with black wings and nape of neck |
| Greater Swiss Mountain dog | the largest of the four Swiss breeds |
greater kudu
Tragelaphus strepsiceros | a variety of kudu |
greater pichiciego
Burmeisteria retusa | of southern South America |
gaffsail
gaff-headed sail | a quadrilateral fore-and-aft sail suspended from a gaff |
| Greater New Orleans Bridge | twin cantilever bridges across the Mississippi at New Orleans |
peritoneal cavity
greater peritoneal sac | the interior of the peritoneum, a potential space between layers of the peritoneum |
greater omentum
gastrocolic omentum
caul | part of the peritoneum attached to the stomach and to the colon and covering the intestines |
pectoralis major
musculus pectoralis major
greater pectoral muscle | a skeletal muscle that adducts and rotates the arm |
rhomboideus major muscle
greater rhomboid muscle
musculus rhomboideus major | rhomboid muscle that draws the scapula toward the spinal column |
| Greater Antilles | a group of islands in the western West Indies |
| Greater Sunda Islands | a chain of islands including Borneo and Celebes and Java and Sumatra |
London
Greater London
British capital
capital of the United Kingdom | the capital and largest city of England, located on the Thames in southeastern England, financial and industrial and cultural center |
New York New York City
Greater New York | the largest city in New York State and in the United States, located in southeastern New York at the mouth of the Hudson river, a major financial and cultural center |
greater spearwort
Ranunculus lingua | semiaquatic European crowfoot with leaves shaped like spears |
stitchwort
greater stitchwort
starwort
Stellaria holostea | low-growing north temperate herb having small white star-shaped flowers, named for its alleged ability to ease sharp pains in the side |
celandine greater celandine
swallowwort swallow wort
Chelidonium majus | perennial herb with branched woody stock and bright yellow flowers |
great burdock
greater burdock
cocklebur Arctium lappa | burdock having heart-shaped leaves found in open woodland, hedgerows and rough grassland of Europe (except extreme N) and Asia Minor, sometimes cultivated for medicinal and culinary use |
great knapweed
greater knapweed
Centaurea scabiosa | tall European perennial having purple flower heads |
greater butterfly orchid
Platanthera chlorantha
Habenaria chlorantha | south European orchid with dark green flowers that are larger and less fragrant than Platanthera bifolia, sometimes placed in genus Habenaria |
round-headed leek
Allium sphaerocephalum | Old World leek with a spherical bulb |
greater masterwort
Astrantia major | European herb with aromatic roots and leaves in a basal tuft and showy compound umbels of white to rosy flowers |
greater water parsnip
Sium latifolium | large stout white-flowered perennial found wild in shallow fresh water, Europe |
bald
bald-headed
bald-pated | lacking hair on all or most of the scalp, a bald pate, a bald-headed gentleman |
| shock-headed | having a shock (or untidy mass) of hair, shock-headed teenagers |
broad-headed
roundheaded
short-headed | having a brachycephalic head |
| bullet-headed | having a small round head |
| long-headed | having a dolichocephalic head |
addled
befuddled muddled
muzzy
woolly
wooly
woolly-headed
wooly-minded | confused and vague, used especially of thinking, muddleheaded ideas, your addled little brain, woolly thinking, woolly-headed ideas |
a blockheaded
boneheaded
duncical
duncish
fatheaded
loggerheaded
thick
thickheaded
thick-skulled
wooden-headed | (used informally) stupid |
| mop-headed | (of trees) having a bushy top without a leader, mop-headed cabbage palms |
| headed | having a head of a specified kind or anything that serves as a head, often used in combination, headed bolts, three-headed Cerberus, a cool-headed fighter pilot |
| burr-headed | having a head of straight hair cut very short (hence bristly) |
| large-headed | having a large head |
| headed | having a heading or caption, a headed column, headed notepaper |
| greater | greater in size or importance or degree, for the greater good of the community, the greater Antilles |
| headed | of leafy vegetables, having formed into a head, headed cabbages |
a grey
gray
grey-haired
gray-haired
grey-headed
gray-headed
grizzly
hoar
hoary
white-haired | showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair, whose beard with age is hoar-Coleridge, nodded his hoary head |
| headed | having a heading or course in a certain direction, westward headed wagons |
conceited
egotistic
egotistical
self-conceited
swollen
swollen-headed
vain | characteristic of false pride, having an exaggerated sense of self-importance, a conceited fool, an attitude of self-conceited arrogance, an egotistical disregard of others, so swollen by victory that he was unfit for normal duty, growing ever more swollen-headed and arbitrary, vain about her clothes |