| motor control | control of muscles |
winter wren
Troglodytes troglodytes | small wren of coniferous forests of northern hemisphere |
winter flounder
blackback flounder
lemon sole Pseudopleuronectes americanus | important American food fish in the winter |
automobile horn
car horn
motor horn
horn hooter | a device on an automobile for making a warning noise |
camper
camping bus
motor home | a recreational vehicle equipped for camping out while traveling |
diesel
diesel engine
diesel motor | an internalombustion engine that burns heavy oil |
| electric motor | a motor that converts electricity to mechanical work |
| motor | machine that converts other forms of energy into mechanical energy and so imparts motion |
motor hotel
motor inn
motor lodge
tourist court
court | a hotel for motorists, provides direct access from rooms to parking area |
motor scooter
scooter | a wheeled vehicle with small wheels and a low-powered gasoline engine geared to the rear wheel |
motor vehicle
automotive vehicle | a self-propelled wheeled vehicle that does not run on rails |
outboard motor
outboard | internalombustion engine that mounts at stern of small boat |
power mower
motor mower | a lawn mower powered by a gasoline motor |
PT boat
mosquito boat
mosquito craft
motor torpedo boat | a small fast unarmored and lightly armed torpedo boat, P(atrol) T(orpedo) boat |
starter starter motor
starting motor | an electric motor for starting an engine |
stepper
stepping motor | a motor (especially an electric motor) that moves or rotates in small discrete steps |
| synchronous motor | electric motor in which the speed of rotation is proportional to the frequency of the A.C. power |
| wiper motor | electric motor that moves the windshield wiper |
end-plate
endplate
motor end plate | the flattened end of a motor neuron that transmits neural impulses to a muscle |
motor neuron
efferent neuron
motor nerve fiber
motoneuron | a neuron conducting impulses outwards from the brain or spinal cord |
motor nerve
efferent nerve
efferent | a nerve that conveys impulses toward or to muscles or glands |
motor fiber
efferent fiber | a nerve fiber that carries impulses toward the muscles or glands |
motor area
motor region
motor cortex
Rolando's area
excitable area | the cortical area that influences motor movements |
pyramidal tract
pyramidal motor system
corticospinal tract | any of the important motor nerves on each side of the central nervous system that run from the sensorimotor areas of the cortex through the brainstem to motor neurons of the cranial nerve nuclei and the ventral root of the spinal cord |
motor memory
muscle memory | your memory for motor skills |
Winter Olympic Games
Winter Olympics | an Olympics for winter sports |
| winter squash | any of various fruits of the gourd family with thick rinds and edible yellow to orange flesh that mature in the fall and can be stored for several months |
| winter crookneck squash | a squash with a hard rind and an elongated curved neck |
| winter cress | cress cultivated for winter salads |
| winter melon | the fruit of the winter melon vine, a green melon with pale green to orange flesh that keeps well |
| lemon sole winter flounder | flesh of American flounder, important in the winter |
winter savory
winter savoury | resinous leaves used in stews and stuffings and meat loaf |
| motor pool | a fleet of military vehicles controlled by a single agency and available for use as needed |
Detroit
Motor City
Motown | the largest city in Michigan and a major Great Lakes port, center of the United States automobile industry, located in southeastern Michigan on the Detroit river across from Windsor |
| motor | a nonspecific agent that imparts motion, happiness is the aim of all men and the motor of all action |
| nuclear winter | a long period of darkness and extreme cold that scientists predict would follow a full-scale nuclear war, a layer of dust and smoke in the atmosphere would cover the earth and block the rays of the sun, most living organisms would perish |
Japan allspice
Japanese allspice
winter sweet Chimonanthus praecox | deciduous Japanese shrub cultivated for its fragrant yellow flowers |
winter aconite
Eranthis hyemalis | small Old World perennial herb grown for its bright yellow flowers which appear in early spring often before snow is gone |
Christmas rose
winter rose
black hellebore Helleborus niger | European evergreen plant with white or purplish rose-like winter-blooming flowers |
Winteraceae
family Winteraceae
winter's bark family | small family of chiefly tropical shrubs and trees of genera Drimys and Pseudowintera, sometimes included in Magnoliaceae |
winter's bark winter's bark tree
Drimys winteri | South American evergreen tree yielding winter's bark and a light soft wood similar to basswood |
winter sweet poison arrow plant
Acocanthera oblongifolia
Acocanthera spectabilis | medium-sized shrubby tree of South Africa having thick leathery evergreen leaves and white or pink flowers and globose usually two-seeded purplish black fruits |
winter purslane
miner's lettuce
Cuban spinach
Montia perfoliata | succulent herb sometimes grown as a salad or pot herb, grows on dunes and waste ground of Pacific coast of North America |
winter cress
St. Barbara's herb
scurvy grass | any plant of the genus Barbarea: yellow-flowered Eurasian cresses, widely cultivated for winter salad |
Belle Isle cress
early winter cress
land cress
American cress
American watercress Barbarea verna
Barbarea praecox | of southwestern Europe, cultivated in Florida |
winter heliotrope
sweet coltsfoot Petasites fragrans | European herb with vanilla-scented white-pink flowers |
winter squash
winter squash plant | any of various plants of the species Cucurbita maxima and Cucurbita moschata producing squashes that have hard rinds and mature in the fall |
winter crookneck
winter crookneck squash
Cucurbita moschata | any of various plants bearing squash having hard rinds and elongated recurved necks |
winter melon
Persian melon
honeydew melon
winter melon vine
Cucumis melo inodorus | any of a variety of muskmelon vines having fruit with a smooth white rind and white or greenish flesh that does not have a musky smell |
winter heath
spring heath
Erica carnea | dwarf European shrub with very early blooming bell-shaped red flowers |