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. |
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 |
Buffel duck
() A small duck (Charitonetta albeola) |
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. |
Decoy-duck
(n.) A duck used to lure wild ducks into a decoy |
Duck
(n.) A pet |
Duck
(n.) A linen (or sometimes cotton) fabric, finer and lighter than canvas, -- used for the lighter sails of vessels, the sacking of beds, and sometimes for men's clothing. |
Duck
(n.) The light clothes worn by sailors in hot climates. |
Duck
(v. t.) To thrust or plunge under water or other liquid and suddenly withdraw. |
Duck
(v. t.) To plunge the head of under water, immediately withdrawing it |
Duck
(v. t.) To bow |
Duck
(v. i.) To go under the surface of water and immediately reappear |
Duck
(v. i.) To drop the head or person suddenly |
Duck
(v. t.) Any bird of the subfamily Anatinae, family Anatidae. |
Duck
(v. t.) A sudden inclination of the bead or dropping of the person, resembling the motion of a duck in water. |
Duck-billed
(a.) Having a bill like that of a duck. |
Duck-legged
(a.) Having short legs, like a waddling duck |
Duck's-meat
(n.) Duckweed. |
Duck's-bill
(a.) Having the form of a duck's bill. |
Duck's-foot
(n.) The May apple (Podophyllum peltatum). |
Gopher wood
() A species of wood used in the construction of Noah's ark. |
Kiabooca wood
() See Kyaboca wood. |
Kyaboca wood
() Amboyna wood. |
Kyaboca wood
() Sandalwood (Santalum album). |
Lingoa wood
() Amboyna wood. |
Muscovy duck
() A duck (Cairina moschata), larger than the common duck, often raised in poultry yards. Called also musk duck. It is native of tropical America, from Mexico to Southern Brazil. |
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. |
Raven's-duck
(n.) A fine quality of sailcloth. |
Rosetta wood
() An east Indian wood of a reddish orange color, handsomely veined with darker marks. It is occasionally used for cabinetwork. |
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. |
Sea duck
() Any one of numerous species of ducks which frequent the seacoasts and feed mainly on fishes and mollusks. The scoters, eiders, old squaw, and ruddy duck are examples. They may be distinguished by the lobate hind toe. |
Sea wood louse
() A sea slater. |
Shittim wood
(n.) The wood of the shittah tree. |
Thyine wood
() The fragrant and beautiful wood of a North African tree (Callitris quadrivalvis), formerly called Thuja articulata. The tree is of the Cedar family, and furnishes a balsamic resin called sandarach. |
Vicissy duck
() A West Indian duck, sometimes domesticated. |
Wood
(a.) Mad |
Wood
(v. i.) To grow mad |
Wood
(n.) A large and thick collection of trees |
Wood
(n.) The substance of trees and the like |
Wood
(n.) The fibrous material which makes up the greater part of the stems and branches of trees and shrubby plants, and is found to a less extent in herbaceous stems. It consists of elongated tubular or needle-shaped cells of various kinds, usually interwoven with the shinning bands called silver grain. |
Wood
(n.) Trees cut or sawed for the fire or other uses. |
Wood
(v. t.) To supply with wood, or get supplies of wood for |
| ducking duck hunting | hunting ducks |
cinch breeze
picnic
snap duck soup
child's play
pushover
walkover
piece of cake | any undertaking that is easy to do, marketing this product will be no picnic |
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 |
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 |
hadrosaur
hadrosaurus
duck-billed dinosaur | any of numerous large bipedal ornithischian dinosaurs having a horny duck-like bill and webbed feet, may have been partly aquatic |
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 |
wood pigeon
ringdove cushat
Columba palumbus | Eurasian pigeon with white patches on wings and neck |
| wood hoopoe | tropical African bird having metallic blackish plumage but no crest |
| duck | small wild or domesticated web-footed broad-billed swimming bird usually having a depressed body and short legs |
| diving duck | any of various ducks of especially bays and estuaries that dive for their food |
dabbling duck
dabbler | any of numerous shallow-water ducks that feed by upending and dabbling |
black duck
Anas rubripes | a dusky duck of northeastern United States and Canada |
pintail pin-tailed duck
Anas acuta | long-necked river duck of the Old and New Worlds having elongated central tail feathers |
ruddy duck
Oxyura jamaicensis | reddish-brown stiff-tailed duck of North America and northern South America |
canvasback
canvasback duck
Aythya valisineria | North American wild duck valued for sport and food |
scaup
scaup duck
bluebill
broadbill | diving ducks of North America having a bluish-grey bill |
lesser scaup
lesser scaup duck
lake duck
Aythya affinis | common scaup of North America, males have purplish heads |
| wild duck | an undomesticated duck (especially a mallard) |
wood duck
summer duck
wood widgeon
Aix sponsa | showy North American duck that nests in hollow trees |
| wood drake | male wood duck |
mandarin duck
Aix galericulata | showy crested Asiatic duck, often domesticated |
muscovy duck
musk duck
Cairina moschata | large crested wild duck of Central America and South America, widely domesticated |
| sea duck | any of various large diving ducks found along the seacoast: eider, scoter, merganser |
eider
eider duck | duck of the northern hemisphere much valued for the fine soft down of the females |
merganser
fish duck
sawbill
sheldrake | large crested fish-eating diving duck having a slender hooked bill with serrated edges |
platypus
duckbill duckbilled platypus
duck-billed platypus
Ornithorhynchus anatinus | small densely furred aquatic monotreme of Australia and Tasmania having a broad bill and tail and webbed feet, only species in the family Ornithorhynchidae |
| duck down | down of the duck |
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 |
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 |
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 |
| Donald Duck | a fictional duck created in animated film strips by Walt Disney |
bird shot
buckshot
duck shot | small lead shot for shotgun shells |
driver
number one wood | a golf club (a wood) with a near vertical face that is used for hitting long shots from the tee |
| duck | a heavy cotton fabric of plain weave, used for clothing and tents |
| metal wood | golf wood with a metal head instead of the traditional wooden head |