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 |
copper mine | a mine where copper is dug from the ground |
copper copper color | a reddish-brown color resembling the color of polished copper |
bull cop copper fuzz pig | uncomplimentary terms for a policeman |
nark copper's nark | an informer or spy working for the police |
copper beech purple beech Fagus sylvatica atropunicea Fagus purpurea Fagus sylvatica purpurea | variety of European beech with shining purple or copperolored leaves |
copper | a copper penny |
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 |
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 |
scarce | deficient in quantity or number compared with the demand, fresh vegetables were scarce during the drought |
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 |
barely hardly just scarcely scarce | only a very short time before, they could barely hear the speaker, we hardly knew them, just missed being hit, had scarcely rung the bell when the door flew open, would have scarce arrived before she would have found some excuse to leave- W.B.Yeats |