Air Force Research Laboratory
AFRL | a United States Air Force defense laboratory responsible for discovering and developing and integrating fighting technologies for aerospace forces |
biology lab
biology laboratory
bio lab | a laboratory for biological research |
chemistry lab
chemistry laboratory
chem lab | a laboratory for research in chemistry |
| defense laboratory | a laboratory devoted to research and development for national defense |
| funnel | (nautical) smokestack consisting of a shaft for ventilation or the passage of smoke (especially the smokestack of a ship) |
| funnel | a conically shaped utensil having a narrow tube at the small end, used to channel the flow of substances into a container with a small mouth |
| funnel web | a funnel-shaped spider web, the funnel-web spider perches in the center of the web |
lab
laboratory
research lab
research laboratory
science lab
science laboratory | a workplace for the conduct of scientific research |
lab bench
laboratory bench | a workbench in a laboratory |
lab coat
laboratory coat | a light coat worn to protect clothing from substances used while working in a laboratory |
Naval Research Laboratory
NRL | the United States Navy's defense laboratory that conducts basic and applied research for the Navy in a variety of scientific and technical disciplines |
physics lab
physics laboratory | a laboratory for research in physics |
space station
space platform
space laboratory | a manned artificial satellite in a fixed orbit designed for scientific research |
United States Army Criminal Investigation Laboratory
U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Laboratory
US Army Criminal Investigation Laboratory
USACIL | a defense laboratory of the Criminal Investigation Command, the United States Army's primary forensic laboratory in support of criminal intelligence |
Department of Defense Laboratory System
LABLINK | a defense laboratory that provides essential services in fundamental science for national security and environmental protection and provides technologies that contribute to industrial competitiveness |
testing ground
laboratory | a region resembling a laboratory inasmuch as it offers opportunities for observation and practice and experimentation, the new nation is a testing ground for socioeconomic theories, Pakistan is a laboratory for studying the use of American troops to combat terrorism |
quail bush
quail brush
white thistle Atriplex lentiformis | spiny shrub with silvery-scurfy foliage of alkaline plains of southwestern United States and Mexico |
Russian thistle
Russian tumbleweed
Russian cactus
tumbleweed Salsola kali tenuifolia | prickly bushy Eurasian plant, a troublesome weed in central and western United States |
prickly poppy argemone
white thistle devil's fig | any plant of the genus Argemone having large white or yellow flowers and prickly leaves and stems and pods, chiefly of tropical America |
| thistle | any of numerous plants of the family Compositae and especially of the genera Carduus and Cirsium and Onopordum having prickly-edged leaves |
welted thistle
Carduus crispus | European biennial introduced in North America having flower heads in crowded clusters at ends of branches |
musk thistle
nodding thistle
Carduus nutans | Eurasian perennial naturalized in eastern North America having very spiny white cottony foliage and nodding musky crimson flower heads, valuable source of nectar |
| carline thistle | a thistle of the genus Carlina |
stemless carline thistle
Carlina acaulis | stemless perennial having large flowers with white or purple-brown florets nestled in a rosette of long spiny leaves hairy beneath, of alpine regions of southern and eastern Europe |
common carline thistle
Carlina vulgaris | Eurasian thistle growing in sand dunes and dry chalky soils |
star-thistle
caltrop Centauria calcitrapa | Mediterranean annual or biennial herb having pinkish to purple flowers surrounded by spine-tipped scales, naturalized in America |
Barnaby's thistle
yellow star-thistle
Centaurea solstitialis | European weed having a winged stem and hairy leaves, adventive in the eastern United States |
plume thistle
plumed thistle | any of numerous biennial to perennial herbs with handsome purple or yellow or occasionally white flower heads |
Canada thistle
creeping thistle
Cirsium arvense | European thistle naturalized in United States and Canada where it is a pernicious weed |
field thistle
Cirsium discolor | stout North American thistle with purplish-pink flower heads |
| woolly thistle Cirsium flodmanii | thistle of western North America having white woolly leaves |
European woolly thistle
Cirsium eriophorum | woolly thistle of western and central Europe and Balkan Peninsula |
melancholy thistle
Cirsium heterophylum
Cirsium helenioides | perennial stoloniferous thistle of northern Europe with lanceolate basal leaves and usually solitary heads of reddish-purple flowers |
brook thistle
Cirsium rivulare | of central and southwestern Europe |
bull thistle
boar thistle
spear thistle
Cirsium vulgare
Cirsium lanceolatum | European thistle with rather large heads and prickly leaves, extensively naturalized as a weed in the United States |
| blessed thistle sweet sultan Cnicus benedictus | annual of Mediterranean to Portugal having hairy stems and minutely spiny-toothed leaves and large heads of yellow flowers |
| globe thistle | any of various plants of the genus Echinops having prickly leaves and dense globose heads of bluish flowers |
prickly lettuce
horse thistle
Lactuca serriola
Lactuca scariola | European annual wild lettuce having prickly stems, a troublesome weed in parts of United States |
cotton thistle
woolly thistle Scotch thistle
Onopordum acanthium
Onopordon acanthium | biennial Eurasian white hairy thistle having pale purple flowers, naturalized in North America |
| golden thistle | any of several spiny Mediterranean herbs of the genus Scolymus having yellow flower heads |
milk thistle lady's thistle
Our Lady's mild thistle
holy thistle
blessed thistle Silybum marianum | tall Old World biennial thistle with large clasping white-blotched leaves and purple flower heads, naturalized in California and South America |
sow thistle
milk thistle | any of several Old World coarse prickly-leaved shrubs and subshrubs having milky juice and yellow flowers, widely naturalized, often noxious weeds in cultivated soil |
blueweed
blue devil
blue thistle
viper's bugloss
Echium vulgare | a coarse prickly European weed with spikes of blue flowers, naturalized in United States |
funnel
funnel shape | a conical shape with a wider and a narrower opening at the two ends |
| funnel | move or pour through a funnel, funnel the liquid into the small bottle |
| funnel-shaped | shaped in the form of a funnel |