barn owl
Tyto alba | mottled buff and white owl often inhabiting barns and other structures, important in rodent control |
Calidris
genus Calidris | a genus of Scolopacidae |
pectoral sandpiper
jacksnipe Calidris melanotos | American sandpiper that inflates its chest when courting |
knot
greyback grayback Calidris canutus | a sandpiper that breeds in the Arctic and winters in the southern hemisphere |
curlew sandpiper
Calidris Ferruginea | Old World sandpiper with a curved bill like a curlew |
sanderling
Crocethia alba | small sandpiper that breeds in the Arctic and migrates southward along sandy coasts in most of world |
white matter
substantia alba | whitish nervous tissue of the CNS consisting of neurons and their myelin sheaths |
European silver fir
Christmas tree Abies alba | tall timber tree of central and southern Europe having a regular crown and grey bark |
amboina pine
amboyna pine
Agathis dammara
Agathis alba | native to the Moluccas and Philippines, a source of dammar resin |
European white lily
Nymphaea alba | a water lily with white flowers |
white baneberry
white cohosh
white bead
doll's eyes
Actaea alba | North American herb with white poisonous berries |
white sweet clover
white melilot
Melilotus alba | biennial plant, valuable honey plant |
West Indian jasmine
pagoda tree Plumeria alba | tall sparingly branched conical tree having large fragrant yellow flowers with white centers |
white campion
evening lychnis
white cockle
bladder campion Silene latifolia
Lychnis alba | bluish-green herb having sticky stems and clusters of large evening-opening white flowers with much-inflated calyx, sometimes placed in genus Lychnis |
white mustard
Brassica hirta
Sinapis alba | Eurasian mustard cultivated for its pungent seeds, a source of table mustard and mustard oil |
white lettuce
cankerweed
Nabalus alba
Prenanthes alba | herb of northeastern North America having drooping clusters of yellowish-white flowers, sometimes placed in genus Prenanthes |
wood meadowgrass
Poa nemoralis
Agrostis alba | slender European grass of shady places, grown also in northeastern America and temperate Asia |
white bryony
devil's turnip
Bryonia alba | white-flowered vine having thick roots and bearing small black berries, Europe to Iran |
American white oak
Quercus alba | large slow-growing deciduous tree of the eastern United States having stout spreading branches and leaves with usually rounded lobes, yields strong and durable hard wood |
wild cinnamon white cinnamon tree
Canella winterana
Canella-alba | large evergreen shrub or small tree having white aromatic bark and leathery leaves and small purple to red flowers in terminal cymes |
white mulberry
Morus alba | Asiatic mulberry with white to pale red fruit, leaves used to feed silkworms |
caranday
caranda
caranda palm
wax palm Copernicia australis
Copernicia alba | South American palm yielding a wax similar to carnauba wax |
blolly
West Indian snowberry
Chiococca alba | evergreen climbing shrub of southern Florida and West Indies grown for its racemes of fragrant white to creamy flowers followed by globose white succulent berries |
snowberry common snowberry
waxberry Symphoricarpos alba | deciduous shrub of western North America having spikes of pink flowers followed by round white berries |
| senega Polygala alba | perennial bushy herb of central and southern United States having white flowers with green centers and often purple crest, similar to Seneca snakeroot |
fraxinella
dittany
burning bush gas plant
Dictamnus alba | Eurasian perennial herb with white flowers that emit flammable vapor in hot weather |
white willow
Huntingdon willow
Salix alba | large willow tree of Eurasia and North Africa having greyish canescent leaves and grey bark |
silver willow
silky willow Salix alba sericea
Salix sericea | North American willow with greyish silky pubescent leaves that usually blacken in drying |
golden willow
Salix alba vitellina
Salix vitellina | European willow having greyish leaves and yellow-orange twigs used in basketry |
cricket-bat willow
Salix alba caerulea | Eurasian willow tree having greyish leaves and ascending branches |
white poplar
white aspen
abele
aspen poplar
silver-leaved poplar
Populus alba | a poplar that is widely cultivated in the United States, has white bark and leaves with whitish undersurfaces |
moonflower
belle de nuit
Ipomoea alba | pantropical climber having white fragrant nocturnal flowers |
Clitocybe robusta
Clytocybe alba | a large white agaric, edible but not palatable |
milk leg
white leg
phlegmasia alba dolens | painful thrombosis of the femoral vein in the leg following childbirth |
| pityriasis alba | common form of pityriasis (usually in children or young adults) characterized by round patches of depigmentation |
china clay
china stone
kaolin
kaoline
porcelain clay
terra alba | a fine usually white clay formed by the weathering of aluminous minerals (as feldspar), used in ceramics and as an absorbent and as a filler (e.g., in paper) |
pipeclay
terra alba | fine white clay used in making tobacco pipes and pottery and in whitening leather |
| terra alba | finely pulverized gypsum used especially as a pigment |