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 |
beanie beany | a small skullcap, formerly worn by schoolboys and college freshmen |
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 |
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 |
button | a round flat badge displaying information and suitable for pinning onto a garment, they passed out campaign buttons for their candidate |
silver lining bright side | a consoling aspect of a difficult situation, every cloud has a silver lining, look on the bright side of it |
button | any of various plant parts that resemble buttons |
marsh marigold kingcup meadow bright May blob cowslip water dragon Caltha palustris | swamp plant of Europe and North America having bright yellow flowers resembling buttercups |
button pink Dianthus latifolius | much-branched pink with flowers in clusters, closely related to sweet William |
globe amaranth bachelor's button Gomphrena globosa | tropical American herb having rose to red or purple flowers that can be dried without losing color |
mescal button sacred mushroom magic mushroom | the button-shaped top of the mescal cactus, a source of psilocybin |
cornflower bachelor's button bluebottle Centaurea cyanus | an annual Eurasian plant cultivated in North America having showy heads of blue or purple or pink or white flowers |
blazing star button snakeroot gayfeather gay-feather snakeroot | any of various North American plants of the genus Liatris having racemes or panicles of small discoid flower heads |
button tree button mangrove Conocarpus erectus | evergreen tree or shrub with fruit resembling buttons and yielding heavy hard compact wood |
orange milkwort yellow milkwort candyweed yellow bachelor's button Polygala lutea | bog plant of pine barrens of southeastern United States having spikes of irregular yellow-orange flowers |
button snakeroot Eryngium aquaticum | coarse prickly perennial eryngo with aromatic roots, southeastern United States, often confused with rattlesnake master |
rattlesnake master rattlesnake's master button snakeroot Eryngium yuccifolium | coarse prickly perennial eryngo of United States thought to cure rattlesnake bite |
button fern Tectaria cicutaria | Jamaican fern having round buttonlike bulbils |
Indian button fern Tectaria macrodonta | fern of tropical Asia having round buttonlike bulbils |
button fern Pellaea rotundifolia | fern of New Zealand and Australia having trailing fronds with dark green buttonlike leaflets |
nephritis Bright's disease | an inflammation of the kidney |
close up clam up dummy up shut up belt up button up be quiet keep mum | refuse to talk or stop talking, fall silent, The children shut up when their father approached |
button | fasten with buttons, button the dress |
button | provide with buttons, button a shirt |
bright hopeful promising | full or promise, had a bright future in publishing, the scandal threatened an abrupt end to a promising political career, a hopeful new singer on Broadway |
bright | having lots of light either natural or artificial, the room was bright and airy, a stage bright with spotlights |
bright | emitting or reflecting light readily or in large amounts, the sun was bright and hot, a bright sunlit room |
bright as a new penny(p) | (metaphor) shining brightly |
undimmed bright | not made dim or less bright, undimmed headlights, surprisingly the curtain started to rise while the houselights were still undimmed |
button-down | of a shirt, having the ends of the collar fastened down by buttons, Brooks Brothers button-down shirts |
buoyant chirpy perky | characterized by liveliness and lightheartedness, buoyant spirits, his quick wit and chirpy humor, looking bright and well and chirpy, a perky little widow in her s |
azure cerulean sky-blue bright blue | of a deep somewhat purplish blue color similar to that of a clear October sky, October's bright blue weather |
bright-red raspberry-red | of the red of fresh raspberries |
bright brilliant vivid | having striking color, bright dress, brilliant tapestries, a bird with vivid plumage |
button-down buttoned-down conservative | unimaginatively conventional, a colorful character in the buttoned-down, dull-grey world of business- Newsweek |
bright | splendid, the bright stars of stage and screen, a bright moment in history, the bright pageantry of court |