Aloes wood () See Agalloch. |
Amboyna wood () A beautiful mottled and curled wood, used in cabinetwork. It is obtained from the Pterocarpus Indicus of Amboyna, Borneo, etc. |
Bethabara wood () A highly elastic wood, used for fishing rods, etc. The tree is unknown, but it is thought to be East Indian. |
Bottle green () A dark shade of green, like that of bottle glass. |
Brazil wood () The wood of the oriental Caesalpinia Sapan |
Brazil wood () A very heavy wood of a reddish color, imported from Brazil and other tropical countries, for cabinet-work, and for dyeing. The best is the heartwood of Caesalpinia echinata, a leguminous tree |
Brunswick green () An oxychloride of copper, used as a green pigment |
Calamander wood () A valuable furniture wood from India and Ceylon, of a hazel-brown color, with black stripes, very hard in texture. It is a species of ebony, and is obtained from the Diospyros quaesita. Called also Coromandel wood. |
Campeachy Wood () Logwood. |
Cocus wood () A West Indian wood, used for making flutes and other musical instruments. |
Gopher wood () A species of wood used in the construction of Noah's ark. |
Grass-green (a.) Green with grass. |
Grass-green (a.) Of the color of grass |
Green (superl.) Having the color of grass when fresh and growing |
Green (superl.) Having a sickly color |
Green (superl.) Full of life aud vigor |
Green (superl.) Not ripe |
Green (superl.) Not roasted |
Green (superl.) Immature in age or experience |
Green (superl.) Not seasoned |
Green (n.) The color of growing plants |
Green (n.) A grassy plain or plat |
Green (n.) Fresh leaves or branches of trees or other plants |
Green (n.) pl. Leaves and stems of young plants, as spinach, beets, etc., which in their green state are boiled for food. |
Green (n.) Any substance or pigment of a green color. |
Green (v. t.) To make green. |
Green (v. i.) To become or grow green. |
Green-broom (n.) A plant of the genus Genista (G. tinctoria) |
Green-eyed (a.) Having green eyes. |
Green-eyed (a.) Seeing everything through a medium which discolors or distorts. |
Green-leek (n.) An Australian parrakeet (Polytelis Barrabandi) |
Green-stall (n.) A stall at which greens and fresh vegetables are exposed for sale. |
Hoopoe (n.) Alt. of Hoopoo |
Kendal green () Alt. of Kendal |
Kiabooca wood () See Kyaboca wood. |
Kyaboca wood () Amboyna wood. |
Kyaboca wood () Sandalwood (Santalum album). |
Lincoln green () A color of cloth formerly made in Lincoln, England |
Lingoa wood () Amboyna wood. |
Mitter's green () A pigment of a green color, the chief constituent of which is oxide of chromium. |
Myall wood () A durable, fragrant, and dark-colored Australian wood, used by the natives for spears. It is obtained from the small tree Acacia homolophylla. |
Nicaragua wood () Brazil wood. |
Omander wood () The wood of Diospyros ebenaster, a kind of ebony found in Ceylon. |
Oyster-green (n.) A green membranous seaweed (Ulva) often found growing on oysters but common on stones, piles, etc. |
Rosetta wood () An east Indian wood of a reddish orange color, handsomely veined with darker marks. It is occasionally used for cabinetwork. |
Salt-green (a.) Sea-green in color. |
Sapan wood () A dyewood yielded by Caesalpinia Sappan, a thorny leguminous tree of Southern Asia and the neighboring islands. It is the original Brazil wood. |
Sappan wood () Sapan wood. |
Scheele's green () See under Green. |
Sea green () The green color of sea water. |
Battle of the Marne Belleau Wood Chateau-Thierry Marne River | a World War I battle in northwestern France where the Allies defeated the Germans in |
cyanobacteria blue-green algae | predominantly photosynthetic prokaryotic organisms containing a blue pigment in addition to chlorophyll, occur singly or in colonies in diverse habitats, important as phytoplankton |
yellow-green algae | any alga of the division Chrysophyta with its chlorophyll masked by yellow pigment |
green algae chlorophyte | algae that are clear green in color, often growing on wet ricks or damp wood or the surface of stagnant water |
green-tailed towhee Chlorura chlorura | towhee of the Rocky Mountains |
pewee peewee peewit pewit wood pewee Contopus virens | small oliveolored woodland flycatchers of eastern North America |
western wood pewee Contopus sordidulus | small flycatcher of western North America |
wood thrush Hylocichla mustelina | large thrush common in eastern American woodlands, noted for its melodious song |
wood warbler Phylloscopus sibilatrix | European woodland warbler with dull yellow plumage |
New World warbler wood warbler | small brightolored American songbird with a weak unmusical song |
wood swallow swallow shrike | Australasian and Asiatic bird related to the shrikes and resembling a swallow |
wood-frog wood frog Rana sylvatica | wideanging light-brown frog of moist North American woodlands especially spruce |
green frog spring frog Rana clamitans | similar to bullfrog, found in or near marshes and ponds, of United States and Canada |
Eurasian green toad Bufo viridis | Eurasian toad with variable chiefly green coloring |
American green toad Bufo debilis | small green or yellow-green toad with small black bars and stripes |
green turtle Chelonia mydas | large tropical turtle with greenish flesh used for turtle soup |
green lizard Lacerta viridis | a common Eurasian lizard about a foot long |
green snake grass snake | either of two North American chiefly insectivorous snakes that are green in color |
smooth green snake Opheodrys vernalis | of western and central United States |
rough green snake Opheodrys aestivus | of southern and eastern United States |
green snake | any of numerous African colubrid snakes |
green mamba | green phase of the black mamba |
wood tick American dog tick Dermacentor variabilis | common tick that can transmit Rocky Mountain spotted fever and tularemia |
capercaillie capercailzie horse of the wood Tetrao urogallus | large black Old World grouse |
green peafowl Pavo muticus | peafowl of southeast Asia |
wood pigeon ringdove cushat Columba palumbus | Eurasian pigeon with white patches on wings and neck |
hoopoe hoopoo | any of several crested Old World birds with a slender downwardurved bill |
Euopean hoopoe Upupa epops | pinkish-brown hoopoe with black-and-white wings |
wood hoopoe | tropical African bird having metallic blackish plumage but no crest |
green woodpecker Picus viridis | woodpecker of Europe and western Asia |
greenwing green-winged teal Anas crecca | common teal of Eurasia and North America |
wood duck summer duck wood widgeon Aix sponsa | showy North American duck that nests in hollow trees |
wood drake | male wood duck |
green gland | one of a pair of glands (believed to have excretory functions) in some crustaceans near the base of the large antennae |
wood ibis wood stork flinthead Mycteria americana | an American stork that resembles the true ibises in having a downwardurved bill, inhabits wooded swamps of New World tropics |
wood ibis wood stork Ibis ibis | any of several Old World birds of the genus Ibis |
weka maori hen wood hen | flightless New Zealand rail of thievish disposition having short wings each with a spur used in fighting |
lapwing green plover peewit pewit | large crested Old World plover having wattles and spurs |
green June beetle figeater | large greenish June beetle of southern United States |
wood ant Formica rufa | reddish-brown European ant typically living in anthills in woodlands |
dry-wood termite | any of various termites that live in and feed on dry wood that is not connected with the soil |
apple aphid green apple aphid Aphis pomi | bright green aphid, feeds on and causes curling of apple leaves |
green peach aphid | yellowish green aphid that is especially destructive to peaches |
green lacewing chrysopid stink fly | pale green unpleasant-smelling lacewing fly having carnivorous larvae |
wood rabbit cottontail cottontail rabbit | common small rabbit of North America having greyish or brownish fur and a tail with a white underside, a host for Ixodes pacificus and Ixodes scapularis (Lyme disease ticks) |
European wood mouse Apodemus sylvaticus | nocturnal yellowish-brown mouse inhabiting woods and fields and gardens |
wood mouse | any of various New World woodland mice |
wood rat woodat | any of various small short-tailed rodents of the northern hemisphere having soft fur grey above and white below with furred tails and large ears, some are hosts for Ixodes pacificus and Ixodes scapularis (Lyme disease ticks) |
dusky-footed wood rat | a wood rat with dusky feet |
skunk polecat wood pussy | American musteline mammal typically ejecting an intensely malodorous fluid when startled, in some classifications put in a separate subfamily Mephitinae |