Bed rock () The solid rock underlying superficial formations. Also Fig. |
Bramble bush () The bramble, or a collection of brambles growing together. |
Bush (n.) A thicket, or place abounding in trees or shrubs |
Bush (n.) A shrub |
Bush (n.) A shrub cut off, or a shrublike branch of a tree |
Bush (n.) A shrub or branch, properly, a branch of ivy (as sacred to Bacchus), hung out at vintners' doors, or as a tavern sign |
Bush (n.) The tail, or brush, of a fox. |
Bush (v. i.) To branch thickly in the manner of a bush. |
Bush (v. t.) To set bushes for |
Bush (v. t.) To use a bush harrow on (land), for covering seeds sown |
Bush (n.) A lining for a hole to make it smaller |
Bush (n.) A piece of copper, screwed into a gun, through which the venthole is bored. |
Bush (v. t.) To furnish with a bush, or lining |
Caper bush () Alt. of Caper tree |
Cinque-spotted (a.) Five-spotted. |
Eye-spotted (a.) Marked with spots like eyes. |
Hyrax (n.) Any animal of the genus Hyrax, of which about four species are known. They constitute the order Hyracoidea. The best known species are the daman (H. Syriacus) of Palestine, and the klipdas (H. capensis) of South Africa. Other species are H. arboreus and H. Sylvestris, the former from Southern, and the latter from Western, Africa. See Daman. |
Naples yellow () See under Yellow. |
Order (n.) Regular arrangement |
Order (n.) Of material things, like the books in a library. |
Order (n.) Of intellectual notions or ideas, like the topics of a discource. |
Order (n.) Of periods of time or occurrences, and the like. |
Order (n.) Right arrangement |
Order (n.) The customary mode of procedure |
Order (n.) Conformity with law or decorum |
Order (n.) That which prescribes a method of procedure |
Order (n.) A command |
Order (n.) Hence: A commission to purchase, sell, or supply goods |
Order (n.) A number of things or persons arranged in a fixed or suitable place, or relative position |
Order (n.) A body of persons having some common honorary distinction or rule of obligation |
Order (n.) An ecclesiastical grade or rank, as of deacon, priest, or bishop |
Order (n.) The disposition of a column and its component parts, and of the entablature resting upon it, in classical architecture |
Order (n.) An assemblage of genera having certain important characters in common |
Order (n.) The placing of words and members in a sentence in such a manner as to contribute to force and beauty or clearness of expression. |
Order (n.) Rank |
Order (n.) To put in order |
Order (n.) To give an order to |
Order (n.) To give an order for |
Order (n.) To admit to holy orders |
Order (v. i.) To give orders |
Rock (n.) See Roc. |
Rock (n.) A distaff used in spinning |
Rock (n.) A large concreted mass of stony material |
Rock (n.) Any natural deposit forming a part of the earth's crust, whether consolidated or not, including sand, earth, clay, etc., when in natural beds. |
Rock (n.) That which resembles a rock in firmness |
Rock (n.) Fig.: Anything which causes a disaster or wreck resembling the wreck of a vessel upon a rock. |
Rock (n.) The striped bass. See under Bass. |
Rock (v. t.) To cause to sway backward and forward, as a body resting on a support beneath |
Rock (v. t.) To move as in a cradle |
Rock (v. i.) To move or be moved backward and forward |
mail-order buying catalog buying | buying goods to be shipped through the mail |
rock climbing | the sport or pastime of scaling rock masses on mountain sides (especially with the help of ropes and special equipment) |
rock careen sway tilt | pitching dangerously to one side |
tall order large order | a formidable task or requirement, finishing in time was a tall order but we did it |
order arms | a position in the manual of arms, the rifle is held vertically on the right side with the butt on the ground, often used as a command |
close-order drill | (military) military drill of troops in standard marching (shoulder-to-shoulder) |
order ordering | the act of putting things in a sequential arrangement, there were mistakes in the ordering of items on the list |
rank order | an arrangement according to rank |
holy order | the sacrament of ordination |
telephone order | receiving orders via telephone |
onion yellow-dwarf virus | the virus that produces stunting and yellowing of the leaves of onion plants |
potato yellow-dwarf virus | the virus that produces stunting and yellowing of the leaves of potato plants |
animal order | the order of animals |
protoctist order | the order of protoctists |
bacteria order | an order of bacteria |
Eubacteriales order Eubacteriales | one of two usually recognized orders of true bacteria, Gram-positive spherical or rod-shaped forms, some are motile, in some classifications considered an order of Schizomycetes |
Pseudomonadales order Pseudomonadales | one of two usually recognized orders of true bacteria, Gram-negative spiral or spherical or rod-shaped bacteria usually motile by polar flagella, some contain photosynthetic pigments |
Rickettsiales order Rickettsiales | pleomorphic Gram-negative microorganisms |
Mycoplasmatales order Mycoplasmatales | coextensive with the family Mycoplasmataceae |
Actinomycetales order Actinomycetales | filamentous or rod-shaped bacteria |
order Myxobacteria Myxobacterales order Myxobacterales Myxobacteriales order Myxobacteriales | an order of higher bacteria |
Spirochaetales order Spirochaetales | higher bacteria, slender spiral rodlike forms |
Heliozoa order Heliozoa | mostly freshwater protozoa |
Radiolaria order Radiolaria | marine protozoa |
Amoebida order Amoebida Amoebina order Amoebina | the animal order including amoebas |
Foraminifera order Foraminifera | foraminifers |
Testacea order Testacea | testacean rhizopods |
yellow-green algae | any alga of the division Chrysophyta with its chlorophyll masked by yellow pigment |
Heterotrichales order Heterotrichales | yellow-green algae with simple or branching filaments, comprising the single family Tribonemaceae |
Laminariales order Laminariales | in some classifications coextensive with family Laminariaceae: marine brown algae of cold or polar seas |
Fucales order Fucales | coextensive with the family Fucaceae |
Ulvales order Ulvales | an order of protoctist |
Volvocales order Volvocales | chiefly freshwater green algae, solitary or colonial |
Zygnematales order Zygnematales Zygnemales order Zygnemales | pond scums, desmids |
Chlorococcales order Chlorococcales | unicellular green algae that reproduce by spores |
Oedogoniales order oedogoniales | simple or branched filamentous freshwater green algae |
Charales order Charales | small order of macroscopic fresh and brackish water algae with a distinct axis: stoneworts |
Dinoflagellata order Dinoflagellata Cilioflagellata order Cilioflagellata | in some classifications considered a phylum of the kingdom Protista, in others included in the plant phylum Pyrrophyta |
Hypermastigina order Hypermastigina | cellulose-producing flagellates |
Polymastigina order Polymastigina | small usually parasitic flagellates |
Coccidia order Coccidia | an order in the subclass Telosporidia |
Gregarinida order Gregarinida | an order in the subclass Telosporidia |
Haemosporidia order Haemosporidia | an order in the subclass Telosporidia |
Sarcosporidia order Sarcosporidia | imperfectly known parasites of the muscles of vertebrates |
Haplosporidia order Haplosporidia | an order in the subclass Acnidosporidia |
Actinomyxidia order Actinomyxidia | parasites of worms |
Mycrosporidia order Mycrosporidia | an order in the subclass Cnidosporidia |
Myxosporidia order Myxosporidia | an order in the subclass Cnidosporidia |
Ostariophysi order Ostariophysi | in some classifications considered a superorder comprising the Cypriniformes and the Siluriformes |
Cypriniformes order Cypriniformes | an order of animals including almost entirely freshwater fishes: characins, loaches, carp, suckers, sometimes classified as a suborder of Ostariophysi |