copper | any of various small butterflies of the family Lycaenidae having coppery wings |
American copper Lycaena hypophlaeas | common copper butterfly of central and eastern North America |
copper rockfish Sebastodes caurinus | a rockfish of the Pacific coastal waters of North America |
brewery | a plant where beer is brewed by fermentation |
copper mine | a mine where copper is dug from the ground |
kettle boiler | a metal pot for stewing or boiling, usually has a lid |
kettle kettledrum tympanum tympani timpani | a large hemispherical brass or copper percussion instrument with a drumhead that can be tuned by adjusting the tension on it |
copper copper color | a reddish-brown color resembling the color of polished copper |
wort | unfermented or fermenting malt |
kettle hole kettle | (geology) a hollow (typically filled by a lake) that results from the melting of a mass of ice trapped in glacial deposits |
Two Kettle | a member of the Siouan people who constituted a division of the Teton Sioux |
bull cop copper fuzz pig | uncomplimentary terms for a policeman |
nark copper's nark | an informer or spy working for the police |
celandine greater celandine swallowwort swallow wort Chelidonium majus | perennial herb with branched woody stock and bright yellow flowers |
coyote brush coyote bush chaparral broom kidney wort Baccharis pilularis | widely spreading evergreen shrub of southwestern United States with flower heads in a leafy panicle |
copper beech purple beech Fagus sylvatica atropunicea Fagus purpurea Fagus sylvatica purpurea | variety of European beech with shining purple or copperolored leaves |
Guttiferae family Guttiferae Clusiaceae family Clusiaceae St John's wort family | widely distributed family of chiefly tropical trees and shrubs and vines that produce oils and resins and some usable timber |
St John's wort | any of numerous plants of the genus Hypericum having yellow flowers and transparently dotted leaves, traditionally gathered on St John's eve to ward off evil |
common St John's wort tutsan Hypericum androsaemum | deciduous bushy Eurasian shrub with golden yellow flowers and reddish-purple fruits from which a soothing salve is made in Spain |
great St John's wort Hypericum ascyron Hypericum pyramidatum | perennial shrub having large star-shaped yellow flowers in narrowly pyramidal cymes |
creeping St John's wort Hypericum calycinum | creeping evergreen shrub with bright yellow star-shaped summer flowers, useful as ground cover |
shrubby St John's wort Hypericum prolificum Hypericum spathulatum | stiff shrub having oblong entire leaves and dense cymes of yellow flowers |
St Peter's wort Hypericum tetrapterum Hypericum maculatum | European perennial St John's wort, Ireland and France to western Siberia |
marsh St-John's wort Hypericum virginianum | perennial marsh herb with pink to mauve flowers, southeastern United States |
wort | usually used in combination: `liverwort', `milkwort', `whorlywort' |
copper | a copper penny |
kettle kettleful | the quantity a kettle will hold |
rhinophyma hypertrophic rosacea toper's nose brandy nose rum nose rum-blossom potato nose hammer nose copper nose | enlargement of the nose with dilation of follicles and redness and prominent vascularity of the skin, often associated with excessive consumption of alcohol |
fix hole jam mess muddle pickle kettle of fish | informal terms for a difficult situation, he got into a terrible fix, he made a muddle of his marriage |
copper Cu atomic number | a ductile malleable reddish-brown corrosionesistant diamagnetic metallic element, occurs in various minerals but is the only metal that occurs abundantly in large masses, used as an electrical and thermal conductor |
chalcocite copper glance | a heavy grey mineral that is an ore of copper |
chalcopyrite copper pyrites | a yellow copper ore (CuFeS) made up of copper and iron sulfide |
blister copper | an impure form of copper having a black blistered surface |
copper-base alloy | any alloy whose principal component is copper |
copper oxide | an oxide of copper |
copper sulfate copper sulphate cupric sulfate cupric sulphate | a copper salt made by the action of sulfuric acid on copper oxide |
copper | coat with a layer of copper |
copper-bottom | provide with a copper bottom, copper-bottom a frying pan |
coppery copper colored | of something having the color of copper |
copper-bottomed | having a bottom of copper or sheathed with copper, copper-bottomed pots, a copper-bottomed ship |