early warning radar | a radar that is part of an early warning system |
early warning system | a network of radar installations designed to detect enemy missiles or aircraft while there is still time to intercept them |
early bird | a person who gets up very early in the morning |
early bird | a person who arrives early before others do |
Belle Isle cress early winter cress land cress American cress American watercress Barbarea verna Barbarea praecox | of southwestern Europe, cultivated in Florida |
male orchis early purple orchid Orchis mascula | Eurasian orchid with showy pink or purple flowers in a loose spike |
early coral root pale coral root Corallorhiza trifida | plant having clumps of nearly leafless pale yellowish to greenish stems bearing similarly colored flowers with white lower lips, northern New Mexico north through South Dakota and Washington to Alaska |
early spider orchid Ophrys sphegodes | spring-blooming spider orchid having a flower with yellow or green or pink sepals and a broad brown velvety lip |
dwarf-white trillium snow trillium early wakeobin | a low perennial white-flowered trillium found in the southeastern United States |
Verpa bohemica early morel | resembles a thimble on a finger, the surface of the fertile portion is folded into wrinkles that extend from the top down, fruiting begins in spring before the leaves are out on the trees |
infancy babyhood early childhood | the early stage of growth or development |
early-morning hour | an hour early in the morning |
youth early days | an early period of development, during the youth of the project |
early | at or near the beginning of a period of time or course of events or before the usual or expected time, early morning, an early warning, early diagnosis, an early death, took early retirement, an early spring, early varieties of peas and tomatoes mature before most standard varieties |
early | being or occurring at an early stage of development, in an early stage, early forms of life, early man, an early computer |
early | of an early stage in the development of a language or literature, the Early Hebrew alphabetical script is that used mainly from the th to the th centuries B.C., Early Modern English is represented in documents printed from to |
spring-flowering early-flowering spring-blooming early-blooming late-spring-blooming | of plants that bloom during the spring |
early | very young, at an early age |
early(a) former(a) other(a) | belonging to the distant past, the early inhabitants of Europe, former generations, in other times |
early | expected in the near future, look for an early end to the negotiations |
early ahead of time too soon | before the usual time or the time expected, she graduated early, the house was completed ahead of time |
early betimes | in good time, he awoke betimes that morning |
early on early | during an early stage, early on in her career |