Aber-de-vine (n.) The European siskin (Carduelis spinus), a small green and yellow finch, related to the goldfinch. |
Arbor vine () A species of bindweed. |
Cactus (n.) Any plant of the order Cactacae, as the prickly pear and the night-blooming cereus. See Cereus. They usually have leafless stems and branches, often beset with clustered thorns, and are mostly natives of the warmer parts of America. |
Coachwhip snake () A large, slender, harmless snake of the southern United States (Masticophis flagelliformis). |
Coral (n.) The hard parts or skeleton of various Anthozoa, and of a few Hydrozoa. Similar structures are also formed by some Bryozoa. |
Coral (n.) The ovaries of a cooked lobster |
Coral (n.) A piece of coral, usually fitted with small bells and other appurtenances, used by children as a plaything. |
Coral fish () Any bright-colored fish of the genera Chaetodon, Pomacentrus, Apogon, and related genera, which live among reef corals. |
Coral-rag (n.) Same as Corallian. |
Cross-staff (n.) An instrument formerly used at sea for taking the altitudes of celestial bodies. |
Cross-staff (n.) A surveyor's instrument for measuring offsets. |
Desert (n.) That which is deserved |
Desert (n.) A deserted or forsaken region |
Desert (n.) A tract, which may be capable of sustaining a population, but has been left unoccupied and uncultivated |
Desert (a.) Of or pertaining to a desert |
Desert (v. t.) To leave (especially something which one should stay by and support) |
Desert (v. t.) To abandon (the service) without leave |
Desert (v. i.) To abandon a service without leave |
Rock staff (v. i.) An oscillating bar in a machine, as the lever of the bellows of a forge. |
Staff (n.) A long piece of wood |
Staff (n.) A stick carried in the hand for support or defense by a person walking |
Staff (n.) A pole, stick, or wand borne as an ensign of authority |
Staff (n.) A pole upon which a flag is supported and displayed. |
Staff (n.) The round of a ladder. |
Staff (n.) A series of verses so disposed that, when it is concluded, the same order begins again |
Staff (n.) The five lines and the spaces on which music is written |
Staff (n.) An arbor, as of a wheel or a pinion of a watch. |
Staff (n.) The grooved director for the gorget, or knife, used in cutting for stone in the bladder. |
Staff (n.) An establishment of officers in various departments attached to an army, to a section of an army, or to the commander of an army. The general's staff consists of those officers about his person who are employed in carrying his commands into execution. See Etat Major. |
Staff (n.) Hence: A body of assistants serving to carry into effect the plans of a superintendant or manager |
Stag-horn coral () Alt. of Stag-horn fern |
Vine (n.) Any woody climbing plant which bears grapes. |
Vine (n.) Hence, a climbing or trailing plant |
Vine-clad (a.) Covered with vines. |
Water vine () Any plant of the genus Phytocrene, climbing shrubs of Asia and Africa, the stems of which are singularly porous, and when cut stream with a limpid potable juice. |
Coral Sea battle of the Coral Sea | a Japanese defeat in World War II (May ), the first naval battle fought entirely by planes based on aircraft carriers |
Operation Desert Storm | the United States and its allies defeated Iraq in a ground war that lasted hours () |
cactus wren | large harsh-voiced American wren of arid regions of the United States southwest and Mexico |
desert tortoise Gopherus agassizii | burrowing tortoise of the arid western United States and northern Mexico, may be reclassified as a member of genus Xerobates |
desert iguana Dipsosaurus dorsalis | small long-tailed lizard of arid areas of southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico |
coachwhip coachwhip snake Masticophis flagellum | a whipsnake of southern United States and Mexico, tail resembles a braided whip |
vine snake | slender arboreal snake found from southern Arizona to Bolivia |
coral snake harlequin-snake New World coral snake | any of several venomous New World snakes brilliantly banded in red and black and either yellow or white, widely distributed in South America and Central America |
eastern coral snake Micrurus fulvius | ranges from Central America to southeastern United States |
western coral snake Micruroides euryxanthus | ranges from Central America to southwestern United States |
coral snake Old World coral snake | any of various venomous elapid snakes of Asia and Africa and Australia |
Asian coral snake | of India |
African coral snake Aspidelaps lubricus | small widely distributed arboreal snake of southern Africa banded in black and orange |
Australian coral snake Rhynchoelaps australis | small venomous but harmless snake marked with black-and-white on red |
coral | marine colonial polyp characterized by a calcareous skeleton, masses in a variety of shapes often forming reefs |
gorgonian gorgonian coral | corals having a horny or calcareous branching skeleton |
red coral | corals of especially the Mediterranean having pink or red color used for ornaments and jewelry |
stony coral madrepore madriporian coral | corals having calcareous skeletons aggregations of which form reefs and islands |
brain coral | massive reef-building coral having a convoluted and furrowed surface |
staghorn coral stag's-horn coral | large branching coral resembling antlers |
mushroom coral | flattened disk-shaped stony coral (usually solitary and unattached) |
caracal desert lynx Lynx caracal | of deserts of northern Africa and southern Asia |
cactus mouse Peromyscus eremicus | burrowing mouse of desert areas of southwestern United States |
kangaroo rat desert rat Dipodomys phillipsii | any of various leaping rodents of desert regions of North America and Mexico, largest members of the family Heteromyidae |
buskin combat boot desert boot half boot top boot | a boot reaching halfway up to the knee |
staff | a strong rod or stick with a specialized utilitarian purpose, he walked with the help of a wooden staff |
coral | a variable color averaging a deep pink |
staff stave | (music) the system of five horizontal lines on which the musical notes are written |
staff line | any of the horizontal marks comprising a staff |
treble clef treble staff G clef | a clef that puts the G above middle C on the second line of a staff |
staff | a rod carried as a symbol |
bread breadstuff staff of life | food made from dough of flour or meal and usually raised with yeast or baking powder and then baked |
coral | unfertilized lobster roe, reddens in cooking, used as garnish or to color sauces |
personnel department personnel office personnel staff office | the department responsible for hiring and training and placing employees and for setting policies for personnel management |
Joint Chiefs of Staff Joint Chiefs | the executive agency that advises the President on military questions, composed of the chiefs of the United States Army and the United States Navy and the United States Air Force and the commandant of the United States Marine Corps |
staff faculty | the body of teachers and administrators at a school, the dean addressed the letter to the entire staff of the university |
office office staff | professional or clerical workers in an office, the whole office was late the morning of the blizzard |
research staff | a group of associated research workers in a university or library or laboratory |
sales staff | those in a business who are responsible for sales |
security staff | those in an organization responsible for preventing spying or theft |
service staff maintenance staff | those in a business responsible for maintaining the physical plant |
general staff | military officers assigned to assist a senior officer in planning military policy |
headquarters staff | military staff stationed at headquarters |
staff | personnel who assist their superior in carrying out an assigned task, the hospital has an excellent nursing staff, the general relied on his staff to make routine decisions |
desert | arid land with little or no vegetation |
half-mast half-staff | a position some distance below the top of a mast to which a flag is lowered in mourning or to signal distress |
Arabian Desert Great Arabian Desert | a desert on the Arabian Peninsula in southwestern Asia |
Arabian Desert Eastern Desert | a desert in Egypt between the Nile River and the Red Sea |
Atacama Desert | a desert in northern Chile rich in nitrate and copper deposits |
Australian Desert Great Australian Desert | general name given to all desert areas in Australia |