plain sailing clear sailing easy going | easy unobstructed progress, after we solved that problem the rest was plain sailing |
tanager | any of numerous New World woodland birds having brightly colored males |
scarlet tanager Piranga olivacea redbird firebird | the male is bright red with black wings and tail |
western tanager Piranga ludoviciana | of western North America, male is black and yellow and orangeed |
summer tanager summer redbird Piranga rubra | of middle and southern United States, male is deep roseed the female mostly yellow |
hepatic tanager Piranga flava hepatica | common tanager of southwestern United States and Mexico |
plain turkey Choriotis australis | popular Australian game bird |
plain wanderer Pedionomus torquatus | small Australian bird related to the button quail, classified as wading bird but inhabits plains |
civilian clothing civilian dress civilian garb plain clothes | ordinary clothing as distinguished from uniforms, work clothes, clerical garb, etc. |
knit knit stitch plain plain stitch | a basic knitting stitch |
plain weave taffeta weave | a basic style of weave in which the weft and warp threads intertwine alternately to produce a checkerboard effect |
plain flour | flour that does not contain a raising agent |
Nullarbor Plain | a vast arid plain of southern Australia stretching inland from the Great Australian Bight, has sparse vegetation and no surface water and is almost uninhabited, the site of a major rocket research center |
Serengeti Serengeti Plain | a vast plain in Tanzania to the west of the Great Rift Valley known for its wildlife |
alluvial flat alluvial plain | a flat resulting from repeated deposits of alluvial material by running water |
coastal plain | a plain adjacent to a coast |
floodplain flood plain | a low plain adjacent to a river that is formed chiefly of river sediment and is subject to flooding |
plain field champaign | extensive tract of level open land, they emerged from the woods onto a vast open plain, he longed for the fields of his youth |
salt flat salt plain | a flat expanse of salt left by the evaporation of a body of salt water |
complain kick plain sound off quetch kvetch | express complaints, discontent, displeasure, or unhappiness, My mother complains all day, She has a lot to kick about |
plain bare spare unembellished unornamented | lacking embellishment or ornamentation, a plain hair style, unembellished white walls, functional architecture featuring stark unornamented concrete |
homely plain | lacking in physical beauty or proportion, a homely child, several of the buildings were downright homely, a plain girl with a freckled face |
colored coloured dark dark-skinned non-white | having skin rich in melanin pigments, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, dark-skinned peoples |
peachy peachy-colored peachy-coloured | of something resembling a peach in color |
colored coloured colorful | having color or a certain color, sometimes used in combination, colored crepe paper, the film was in color, amber-colored heads of grain |
brightly-colored brightly-coloured | having a bright color |
buff-colored buff-coloured | having a buff color |
chestnut-colored chestnut-coloured | having the brown color of chestnuts |
chocolate-colored chocolate-coloured | having the color of dark chocolate |
cinnamon colored cinnamon coloured cinnamon-colored cinnamon-coloured | having the color of cinnamon |
dark-colored dark-coloured dusky-colored dusky-coloured | having a dark color |
dun-colored dun-coloured | having a dun color |
fawn-colored fawn-coloured | having the color of a fawn |
flame-colored flame-coloured | having the brilliant orange-red color of flames |
flesh-colored flesh-coloured | having a bright red or pinkish color |
garnet-colored garnet-coloured | having the color of garnet |
gold-colored gold-coloured | having the color of gold |
honey-colored honey-coloured | having the color of honey |
lead-colored lead-coloured | having the color of lead |
metal-colored metal-coloured metallic-colored metallic-coloured | having a metallic color |
s motley calico multicolor multi-color multicolour multi-colour multicolored multi-colored multicoloured multi-coloured painted particolored particoloured piebald pied varicolored varicoloured | having sections or patches colored differently and usually brightly, a jester dressed in motley, the painted desert, a particolored dress, a piebald horse, pied daisies |
neutral-colored neutral-coloured | having a color that does not attract attention |
olive-colored olive-coloured | having the color of green olives |
orange-colored orange-coloured orange-hued | having the color of ripe oranges |
straw-colored straw-coloured | having the color of dry straw |
tawny-colored tawny-coloured | having a tawny color |
violet-colored violet-coloured violet-flowered | having a violet color |
plain unvarnished | free from any effort to soften to disguise, the plain and unvarnished truth, the unvarnished candor of old people and children |
solid self-colored self-coloured | of the same color throughout, solid color |
bleached colored coloured dyed | (used of color) artificially produced, not natural, a bleached blonde |