Air cell () A cavity in the cellular tissue of plants, containing air only. |
Air cell () A receptacle of air in various parts of the system |
Alfa grass (n.) A plant (Macrochloa tenacissima) of North Africa |
Arrow grass (n.) An herbaceous grasslike plant (Triglochin palustre, and other species) with pods opening so as to suggest barbed arrowheads. |
Bent grass () Same as Bent, a kind of grass. |
Bermuda grass () A kind of grass (Cynodon Dactylon) esteemed for pasture in the Southern United States. It is a native of Southern Europe, but is now wide-spread in warm countries |
Blue-eyed grass () a grasslike plant (Sisyrinchium anceps), with small flowers of a delicate blue color. |
Blue grass () A species of grass (Poa compressa) with bluish green stems, valuable in thin gravelly soils |
Brome grass () A genus (Bromus) of grasses, one species of which is the chess or cheat. |
Bunch grass () A grass growing in bunches and affording pasture. In California, Atropis tenuifolia, Festuca scabrella, and several kinds of Stipa are favorite bunch grasses. In Utah, Eriocoma cuspidata is a good bunch grass. |
Cell (n.) A very small and close apartment, as in a prison or in a monastery or convent |
Cell (n.) A small religious house attached to a monastery or convent. |
Cell (n.) Any small cavity, or hollow place. |
Cell (n.) The space between the ribs of a vaulted roof. |
Cell (n.) Same as Cella. |
Cell (n.) A jar of vessel, or a division of a compound vessel, for holding the exciting fluid of a battery. |
Cell (n.) One of the minute elementary structures, of which the greater part of the various tissues and organs of animals and plants are composed. |
Cell (v. t.) To place or inclose in a cell. |
Couch grass () See Quitch grass. |
Dog's-tail grass (n.) A hardy species of British grass (Cynosurus cristatus) which abounds in grass lands, and is well suited for making straw plait |
Doob grass () A perennial, creeping grass (Cynodon dactylon), highly prized, in Hindostan, as food for cattle, and acclimated in the United States. |
Doub grass () Doob grass. |
Gama grass () A species of grass (Tripsacum dactyloides) tall, stout, and exceedingly productive |
Grama grass () The name of several kinds of pasture grasses found in the Western United States, esp. the Bouteloua oligostachya. |
Grass (n.) Popularly: Herbage |
Grass (n.) An endogenous plant having simple leaves, a stem generally jointed and tubular, the husks or glumes in pairs, and the seed single. |
Grass (n.) The season of fresh grass |
Grass (n.) Metaphorically used for what is transitory. |
Grass (v. t.) To cover with grass or with turf. |
Grass (v. t.) To expose, as flax, on the grass for bleaching, etc. |
Grass (v. t.) To bring to the grass or ground |
Grass (v. i.) To produce grass. |
Grass-green (a.) Green with grass. |
Grass-green (a.) Of the color of grass |
Grass-grown (a.) Overgrown with grass |
Grass tree () An Australian plant of the genus Xanthorrhoea, having a thick trunk crowned with a dense tuft of pendulous, grasslike leaves, from the center of which arises a long stem, bearing at its summit a dense flower spike looking somewhat like a large cat-tail. These plants are often called "blackboys" from the large trunks denuded and blackened by fire. They yield two kinds of fragrant resin, called Botany-bay gum, and Gum Acaroides. |
Grass tree () A similar Australian plant (Kingia australis). |
Guatemala grass () See Teosinte. |
Hair grass () A grass with very slender leaves or branches |
Hard grass () A name given to several different grasses, especially to the Roltbollia incurvata, and to the species of Aegilops, from one of which it is contended that wheat has been derived. |
Hariali grass () The East Indian name of the Cynodon Dactylon |
Johnson grass () A tall perennial grass (Sorghum Halepense), valuable in the Southern and Western States for pasture and hay. The rootstocks are large and juicy and are eagerly sought by swine. Called also Cuba grass, Means grass, Evergreen millet, and Arabian millet. |
Lyme grass () A coarse perennial grass of several species of Elymus, esp. E. Canadensis, and the European E. arenarius. |
Melic grass () A genus of grasses (Melica) of little agricultural importance. |
Para grass () A valuable pasture grass (Panicum barbinode) introduced into the Southern United States from Brazil. |
Paver (n.) One who paves |
Quack grass () See Quitch grass. |
Quitch grass () A perennial grass (Agropyrum repens) having long running rootstalks, by which it spreads rapidly and pertinaciously, and so becomes a troublesome weed. Also called couch grass, quick grass, quick grass, twitch grass. See Illustration in Appendix. |
Randall grass () The meadow fescue (Festuca elatior). See under Grass. |
Ray grass () A perennial European grass (Lolium perenne) |
cell | (biology) the basic structural and functional unit of all organisms, they may exist as independent units of life (as in monads) or may form colonies or tissues as in higher plants and animals |
somatic cell nuclear transplantation somatic cell nuclear transfer SCNT nuclear transplantation | moving a cell nucleus and its genetic material from one cell to another |
cell-mediated immune response | an immune response (chiefly against viral or fungal invasions or transplanted tissue) that involves T cells |
turf war | a bitter struggle for territory or power or control or rights, a turf war erupted between street gangs, the president's resignation was the result of a turf war with the board of directors |
Bacillus subtilis Bacillus globigii grass bacillus hay bacillus | a species of bacillus found in soil and decomposing organic matter, some strains produce antibiotics |
flame cell | organ of excretion in flatworms |
vesper sparrow grass finch Pooecetes gramineus | common North American finch noted for its evening song |
grassfinch grass finch | usually brightlyolored Australian weaverbirds, often kept as cage birds |
grass frog Rana temporaria | a common semiterrestrial European frog |
green snake grass snake | either of two North American chiefly insectivorous snakes that are green in color |
garter snake grass snake | any of numerous nonvenomous longitudinally-striped viviparous North American and Central American snakes |
grass snake ring snake ringed snake Natrix natrix | harmless European snake with a bright yellow collar, common in England |
viperine grass snake Natrix maura | a small harmless grass snake |
budgerigar budgereegah budgerygah budgie grass parakeet lovebird shell parakeet Melopsittacus undulatus | small Australian parakeet usually light green with black and yellow markings in the wild but bred in many colors |
flagellated cell | any cell or oneelled organism equipped with a flagellum |
choanocyte collar cell | any of the flagellated cells in sponges having a collar of cytoplasm around the flagellum, they maintain a flow of water through the body |
bullpen detention cell detention centre | a large cell where prisoners (people awaiting trial or sentence or refugees or illegal immigrants) are confined together temporarily |
cell electric cell | a device that delivers an electric current as the result of a chemical reaction |
cell jail cell prison cell | a room where a prisoner is kept |
cell cubicle | small room in which a monk or nun lives |
cell | any small compartment, the cells of a honeycomb |
cellular telephone cellular phone cellphone cell mobile phone | a hand-held mobile radiotelephone for use in an area divided into small sections, each with its own shortange transmitter receiver |
Clark cell Clark standard cell | a form of voltaic cell once used as a standard for electromotive force |
dry cell | a small Leclanche cell containing no free liquid, the electrolyte is a paste and the negative zinc pole forms the container of the cell, used in flashlights, portable radios, etc. |
electrolytic cell | a cell containing an electrolyte in which an applied voltage causes a reaction to occur that would not occur otherwise (such as the breakdown of water into hydrogen and oxygen) |
fuel cell | cell that produces electricity by oxidation of fuel (hydrogen and oxygen or zinc and air), often used in electric cars |
grass skirt | a skirt made of long blades of grass |
holding cell | a jail in a courthouse where accused persons can be confined during a trial |
Kerr cell | optical device consisting of a transparent cell with two electrodes between two polarizing media, passes light only if the two planes of polarization are parallel, used as a high-speed shutter or to modulate a laser beam |
Leclanche cell | voltaic cell that produces approximately . volts |
mercury cell | a primary cell consisting of a zinc anode and a cathode of mercury oxide and an electrolyte of potassium hydroxide |
photoelectric cell photoconductive cell photocell electric eye magic eye | a transducer used to detect and measure light and other radiations |
pot grass green goddess dope weed gage sess sens smoke skunk locoweed Mary Jane | street names for marijuana |
selenium cell | a photoelectric cell that uses a strip of selenium |
solar cell photovoltaic cell | a cell that converts solar energy into electrical energy |
standard cell | a primary cell used as a standard of electromotive force |
storage cell secondary cell | a cell that can be recharged |
voltaic cell galvanic cell primary cell | an electric cell that generates an electromotive force by an irreversible conversion of chemical to electrical energy, cannot be recharged |
Weston cell cadmium cell | a standard voltaic cell (trademark Weston) |
wet cell | a primary voltaic cell having a liquid electrolyte |
skin cell | any of the cells making up the skin |
epidermal cell | any of the cells making up the epidermis |
prickle cell | a cell in the germinal layer of the skin (the prickleell layer), has many spines and radiating processes |
epithelial cell | one of the closely packed cells forming the epithelium |
columnar cell columnar epithelial cell | an epithelial cell that is shaped like a column, some have cilia |
cuboidal cell cuboidal epithelial cell | an epithelial cell that shaped like a cube |
goblet cell | an epithelial cell that secretes mucous |
hair cell | a sensory epithelial cell present in the organ of Corti |
Kupffer's cell | specialized cells in the liver that destroy bacteria, foreign proteins, and worn-out blood cells |
squamous cell | an epithelial cell that is flat like a plate and form a single layer of epithelial tissue |