fine-tooth comb
fine-toothed comb | a method of examining in minute detail, he went over the contract with a fine-tooth comb looking for loopholes |
spotted eagle ray
spotted ray
Aetobatus narinari | ray with back covered with white or yellow spots, widely distributed in warm seas |
spotted antbird
Hylophylax naevioides | a kind of antbird |
spotted flycatcher
Muscicapa striata
Muscicapa grisola | common European woodland flycatcher with greyish-brown plumage |
spotted owl
Strix occidentalis | a large owl of North America found in forests from British Columbia to central Mexico, has dark brown plumage and a heavily spotted chest |
spotted salamander fire salamander
Salamandra maculosa | European salamander having dark skin with usually yellow spots |
| spotted salamander Ambystoma maculatum | glossy black North American salamander with yellow spots |
Chihuahuan spotted whiptail
Cnemidophorus exsanguis | having longitudinal stripes overlaid with light spots, upland lizard of United States southwest and Mexico |
spotted crake
Porzana porzana | Eurasian rail of swamps and marshes |
spotted sandpiper
Actitis macularia | common North American sandpiper |
| liver-spotted dalmatian | a brown-spotted dalmatian |
spotted hyena
laughing hyena
Crocuta crocuta | African hyena noted for its distinctive howl |
spotted lynx
Lynx pardina | of southern Europe |
jackass bat
spotted bat
Euderma maculata | a large bat of the southwestern United States having spots and enormous ears |
two-spotted ladybug
Adalia bipunctata | red ladybug with a black spot on each wing |
red-spotted purple
Limenitis astyanax | similar to the banded purple but with red spots on underwing surfaces |
spotted skunk
little spotted skunk
Spilogale putorius | small skunk with a marbled black and white coat, of United States and Mexico |
Australian arowana
Dawson River salmon
saratoga
spotted barramundi
spotted bonytongue
Scleropages leichardti | a species of large fish found in Australian rivers |
spotted sunfish
stumpknocker
Lepomis punctatus | inhabits streams from South Carolina to Florida, esteemed panfish |
Kentucky black bass
spotted black bass
Micropterus pseudoplites | a variety of black bass |
spotted weakfish
spotted sea trout
spotted squeateague
Cynoscion nebulosus | weakfish of southern Atlantic and Gulf Coasts of United States |
art
fine art | the products of human creativity, works of art collectively, an art exhibition, a fine collection of art |
fine-tooth comb
fine-toothed comb | a comb with teeth set close together |
fine arts
beaux arts | the study and creation of visual works of art |
small print
fine print | material printed in small type, he needed his glasses in order to read the fine print |
Master of Fine Arts
MFA | a master's degree in fine arts |
| Doctor of Fine Arts | an honorary degree in fine arts |
| fine print small print | the part of a contract that contains reservations and qualifications that are often printed in small type, don't sign a contract without reading the fine print |
| spotted dick | a suet pudding containing currants |
| fine spray | precipitation in very small drops |
| fine structure | the presence of groups of closely spaced spectrum lines observed in the atomic spectrum of certain elements, the fine structure results from slightly different energy levels |
leather flower vase-fine
vase vine
Clematis viorna | scandent subshrub of southeastern United States having large red-purple bell-shaped flowers with leathery recurved sepals |
Joe-Pye weed spotted Joe-Pye weed
Eupatorium maculatum | North American herb having whorled leaves and terminal clusters of small pinkish or purple flower heads |
spotted coral root
Corallorhiza maculata | common coral root having yellowish- or reddish- or purplish-brown leafless stems bearing loose racemes of similarly colored flowers with white purple-spotted lips, Guatemala to Canada |
common spotted orchid
Dactylorhiza fuchsii
Dactylorhiza maculata fuchsii | European orchid having lanceolate leaves spotted purple and pink to white or mauve flowers spotted or lined deep red or purple |
bell heather heather bell
fine-leaved heath
Erica cinerea | common low European shrub with purpleed flowers |
spotted gum
Eucalyptus maculata | large gum tree with mottled bark |
wild geranium
spotted cranesbill
Geranium maculatum | common wild geranium of eastern North America with deeply parted leaves and rose-purple flowers |
spotted cowbane
spotted hemlock
spotted water hemlock | tall biennial water hemlock of northeastern North America having purple-spotted stems and clusters of extremely poisonous tuberous roots resembling small sweet potatoes |
fine
mulct
amercement | money extracted as a penalty |
| library fine | fine imposed by a library on books that overdue when returned |
| spotted fever | any of several severe febrile diseases characterized by skin rashes or spots on the skin |
Rocky Mountain spotted fever
mountain fever
tick fever | caused by rickettsial bacteria and transmitted by wood ticks |
calibrate
graduate
fine-tune | make fine adjustments or divide into marked intervals for optimal measuring, calibrate an instrument, graduate a cylinder |
fine-tune
tweak | adjust finely, fine-tune the engine |
| polish refine fine-tune down | improve or perfect by pruning or polishing, refine one's style of writing |
ticket
fine | issue a ticket or a fine to as a penalty, I was fined for parking on the wrong side of the street, Move your car or else you will be ticketed! |
fine-looking
good-looking
better-looking
handsome
well-favored
well-favoured | pleasing in appearance especially by reason of conformity to ideals of form and proportion, a fine-looking woman, a good-looking man, better-looking than her sister, very pretty but not so extraordinarily handsome- Thackeray, our southern women are well-favored- Lillian Hellman |
| fine | characterized by elegance or refinement or accomplishment, fine wine, looking fine in her Easter suit, a fine gentleman, fine china and crystal, a fine violinist, the fine hand of a master |
fine-leaved
fine-leafed | having fine leaves |