release
outlet
vent | activity that frees or expresses creative energy or emotion, she had no other outlet for her feelings, he gave vent to his anger |
| vent | external opening of urinary or genital system of a lower vertebrate |
sand tiger
sand shark
Carcharias taurus
Odontaspis taurus | shallow-water shark with sharp jagged teeth found on both sides of Atlantic, sometimes dangerous to swimmers |
bank martin
bank swallow
sand martin
Riparia riparia | swallow of the northern hemisphere that nests in tunnels dug in clay or sand banks |
side-blotched lizard
sand lizard Uta stansburiana | one of the most abundant lizards in the arid western United States |
| sand lizard Lacerta agilis | a common and widely distributed lizard of Europe and central Asia |
hognose snake
puff adder sand viper | harmless North American snake with upturned nose, may spread its head and neck or play dead when disturbed |
| sand snake | small North American burrowing snake |
banded sand snake
Chilomeniscus cinctus | a sand snake of southwestern United States, lives in fine to coarse sand or loamy soil in which it `swims', banding resembles that of coral snakes |
horned viper
cerastes
sand viper horned asp
Cerastes cornutus | highly venomous viper of northern Africa and southwestern Asia having a horny spine above each eye |
sandgrouse
sand grouse | pigeon-like bird of arid regions of the Old World having long pointed wings and tail and precocial downy young |
beach flea
sand hopper
sandhopper
sand flea | small amphipod crustaceans that hop like fleas, common on ocean beaches |
| sand cat | a desert wildcat |
sand fly
sandfly
Phlebotomus papatasii | any of various small dipterous flies, bloodsucking females can transmit sandfly fever and leishmaniasis |
sand cricket
Jerusalem cricket
Stenopelmatus fuscus | large wingless nocturnal grasshopper that burrows in loose soil along the Pacific coast of the United States |
| sand dollar | flattened disklike sea urchins that live on sandy bottoms |
| sand rat Meriones longifrons | southern European gerbil |
| sand rat | small nearly naked African mole rat of desert areas |
hog badger
hog-nosed badger
sand badger
Arctonyx collaris | southeast Asian badger with a snout like a pig |
| sand stargazer | small pallid fishes of shoal tropical waters of North America and South America having eyes on stalks atop head, they burrow in sand to await prey |
sand lance
sand launce
sand eel
launce | very small silvery eellike schooling fishes that burrow into sandy beaches |
| sand dab | small food fishes of the Pacific coast of North America |
sand sole
Psettichthys melanostichus | a common flatfish of the Pacific coast of North America |
bunker
sand trap
trap | a hazard on a golf course |
| sand painting | a painting done by Amerindians (especially Navaho), made of fine colored sands on a neutral background |
| sand wedge | a wedge used to get out of sand traps |
vent
venthole
vent-hole
blowhole | a hole for the escape of gas or air |
| vent | a slit in a garment (as in the back seam of a jacket) |
backbone
grit
guts
moxie
sand
gumption | fortitude and determination, he didn't have the guts to try it |
| vol-au-vent | puff paste shell filled with a savory meat mixture usually with a sauce |
| sand dab | the lean flesh of a small flounder from the Pacific coast of North America |
dune
sand dune | a ridge of sand created by the wind, found in deserts or near lakes and oceans |
sandbar
sand bar | a bar of sand |
vent
volcano | a fissure in the earth's crust (or in the surface of some other planet) through which molten lava and gases erupt |
Sand
George Sand
Amandine Aurore Lucie Dupin
Baroness Dudevant | French writer known for works concerning women's rights and independence (-) |
sand spurry
sea spurry
Spergularia rubra | prostrate weedy herb with tiny pink flowers, widespread throughout Europe and Asia on sand dunes and heath and coastal cliffs, naturalized in eastern North America |
| sand verbena | any of various plants of the genus Abronia of western North America and Mexico having flowers resembling verbena |
snowball
sweet sand verbena Abronia elliptica | plant having heads of fragrant white trumpet-shaped flowers, grows in sandy arid regions |
| sweet sand verbena Abronia fragrans | taller than Abronia elliptica and having night-blooming flowers |
yellow sand verbena
Abronia latifolia | plant having hemispherical heads of yellow trumpet-shaped flowers, found in coastal dunes from California to British Columbia |
beach sand verbena
pink sand verbena
Abronia umbellata | prostrate herb having heads of deep pink to white flowers, found in coastal dunes from British Columbia to Baja California |
desert sand verbena
Abronia villosa | soft-haired sticky plant with heads of bright pink trumpet-shaped flowers, found in sandy desert soil, after ample rains may carpet miles of desert with pink from the southwestern United States to northern Mexico |
sand sage
silvery wormwood
Artemisia filifolia | silver-haired shrub of central and southern United States and Mexico, a troublesome weed on rangelands |
sand dropseed
Sporobolus cryptandrus | erect smooth grass of sandy places in eastern North America |
sand sedge
sand reed
Carex arenaria | European maritime sedge naturalized along Atlantic coast of United States, rootstock has properties of sarsaparilla |
b common bearberry
red bearberry
wild cranberry
mealberry
hog cranberry
sand berry
sandberry
mountain box
bear's grape
creashak
Arctostaphylos uva-ursi | evergreen mat-forming shrub of North America and northern Eurasia having small white flowers and red berries, leaves turn red in autumn |
sand myrtle
Leiophyllum buxifolium | low-growing evergreen shrub of New Jersey to Florida grown for its many white star-shaped flowers and glossy foliage |
sand leek
giant garlic
Spanish garlic
rocambole
Allium scorodoprasum | European leek cultivated and used like leeks |
Western sand cherry
Rocky Mountains cherry
Prunus besseyi | dwarf ornamental shrub of western United States having large black to red and yellow sweet edible fruit |
sand cherry
Prunus pumila
Prunus pumilla susquehanae
Prunus susquehanae
Prunus cuneata | small straggling American cherry growing on sandy soil and having minute scarcely edible purplish-black fruit |