Irish moss carrageen carageen carragheen Chondrus crispus | dark purple edible seaweed of the Atlantic coasts of Europe and North America |
button quail button-quail bustard quail hemipode | small quail-like terrestrial bird of southern Eurasia and northern Africa that lacks a hind toe, classified with wading birds but inhabits grassy plains |
striped button quail Turnix sylvatica | a variety of button quail having stripes |
Irish wolfhound | large breed of hound with a rough thick coat |
Irish terrier | medium-sized breed with a wiry brown coat, developed in Ireland |
Irish setter red setter | an Irish breed with a chestnut-brown or mahoganyed coat |
Irish water spaniel | breed of large spaniels developed in Ireland having a heavy coat of liverolored curls and a topknot of long curls and a nearly hairless tail |
accordion piano accordion squeeze box | a portable box-shaped freeeed instrument, the reeds are made to vibrate by air from the bellows controlled by the player |
button | a round fastener sewn to shirts and coats etc to fit through buttonholes |
button | any artifact that resembles a button |
buttonhole button hole | a hole through which buttons are pushed |
coat button | a button on a coat |
folding door accordion door | an interior door that opens by folding back in sections (rather than by swinging on hinges) |
horn button | a button that you press to activate the horn of an automobile |
mouse button | a push button on the mouse |
panic button | a button to push in order to summon help in case of an emergency, the circuit is operated by a panic button, when he saw that I was angry he hit the panic button |
push button push button | an electrical switch operated by pressing, the elevator was operated by push buttons, the push beside the bed operated a buzzer at the desk |
push-button radio | a radio receiver that can be tuned by pressing buttons |
release button | a device that when pressed will release part of a mechanism |
reset button | a push button that you press to activate the reset mechanism |
shirt button | a button on a shirt |
clitoris clit button | a female sexual organ homologous to the penis |
navel umbilicus bellybutton belly button omphalos omphalus | a scar where the umbilical cord was attached, you were not supposed to show your navel on television, they argued whether or not Adam had a navel, she had a tattoo just above her bellybutton |
gut issue hot-button issue | an issue that elicits strong emotional reactions |
bullshit bull Irish bull horseshit shit crap dogshit | obscene words for unacceptable behavior, I put up with a lot of bullshit from that jerk, what he said was mostly bull |
diatonic scale | a scale with eight notes in an octave, all but two are separated by whole tones |
major scale major diatonic scale | a diatonic scale with notes separated by whole tones except for the rd and th and th and th |
minor scale minor diatonic scale | a diatonic scale with notes separated by whole tones except for the nd and rd and th and th |
Irish Irish Gaelic | the Celtic language of Ireland |
Old Irish | Irish Gaelic up to about |
Middle Irish | Irish Gaelic from to |
button | a round flat badge displaying information and suitable for pinning onto a garment, they passed out campaign buttons for their candidate |
the Irish Famine the Great Hunger the Great Starvation the Great Calamity | a famine in Ireland resulting from a potato blight, between and a million people starved to death and . million emigrated (most to America) |
mulligan stew mulligan Irish burgoo | Irish version of burgoo |
Irish stew | meat (especially mutton) stewed with potatoes and onions |
Irish soda bread | round loaf made with soda and buttermilk, often containing caraway seeds and raisins |
potato white potato Irish potato murphy spud tater | an edible tuber native to South America, a staple food of Ireland |
Irish Irish whiskey Irish whisky | whiskey made in Ireland chiefly from barley |
Irish coffee | sweetened coffee with Irish whiskey and whipped cream |
Continuity Irish Republican Army CIRA Continuity Army Council | a terrorist organization formed in Ireland in as a clandestine armed wing of Sinn Fein |
Irish National Liberation Army INLA People's Liberation Army People's Republican Army Catholic Reaction Force | a radical terrorist group dedicated to the removal of British forces from Northern Ireland and the unification of Ireland |
Irish Republican Army IRA Provisional Irish Republican Army Provisional IRA Provos | a militant organization of Irish nationalists who used terrorism and guerilla warfare in an effort to drive British forces from Northern Ireland and achieve a united independent Ireland |
Real IRA Real Irish Republican Army RIRA Dissident Irish Republican Army | a radical terrorist group that broke away in when the mainstream Provisional IRA proposed a cease-fire, has continued terrorist activities in opposition to any peace agreement |
Ireland Republic of Ireland Irish Republic Eire | a republic consisting of of counties comprising the island of Ireland, achieved independence from the United Kingdom in |
Dublin Irish capital capital of Ireland | capital and largest city and major port of the Irish Republic |
Irish Sea | an arm of the North Atlantic between Great Britain and Ireland |
Irish person Irelander | a native or inhabitant of Ireland |
Irish Irish people | people of Ireland or of Irish extraction |
button | any of various plant parts that resemble buttons |
button pink Dianthus latifolius | much-branched pink with flowers in clusters, closely related to sweet William |