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 |
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. |
Female fern
() a common species of fern with large decompound fronds (Asplenium Filixfaemina), growing in many countries |
Fern
(adv.) Long ago. |
Fern
(a.) Ancient |
Fern
(n.) An order of cryptogamous plants, the Filices, which have their fructification on the back of the fronds or leaves. They are usually found in humid soil, sometimes grow epiphytically on trees, and in tropical climates often attain a gigantic size. |
Giant
(n.) A man of extraordinari bulk and stature. |
Giant
(n.) A person of extraordinary strength or powers, bodily or intellectual. |
Giant
(n.) Any animal, plant, or thing, of extraordinary size or power. |
Giant
(a.) Like a giant |
Gopher wood
() A species of wood used in the construction of Noah's ark. |
Hare's-foot fern
() A species of fern (Davallia Canariensis) with a soft, gray, hairy rootstock |
Kiabooca wood
() See Kyaboca wood. |
Kyaboca wood
() Amboyna wood. |
Kyaboca wood
() Sandalwood (Santalum album). |
Lingoa wood
() Amboyna wood. |
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. |
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 fern
() Any gorgonian which branches like a fern. |
Sea wood louse
() A sea slater. |
Shield
(n.) A broad piece of defensive armor, carried on the arm, -- formerly in general use in war, for the protection of the body. See Buckler. |
Shield
(n.) Anything which protects or defends |
Shield
(n.) Figuratively, one who protects or defends. |
Shield
(n.) In lichens, a Hardened cup or disk surrounded by a rim and containing the fructification, or asci. |
Shield
(n.) The escutcheon or field on which are placed the bearings in coats of arms. Cf. Lozenge. See Illust. of Escutcheon. |
Shield
(n.) A framework used to protect workmen in making an adit under ground, and capable of being pushed along as excavation progresses. |
Shield
(n.) A spot resembling, or having the form of, a shield. |
Shield
(n.) A coin, the old French crown, or ecu, having on one side the figure of a shield. |
Shield
(n.) To cover with, or as with, a shield |
Shield
(n.) To ward off |
Shield
(n.) To avert, as a misfortune |
Shield-bearer
(n.) One who, or that which, carries a shield. |
Shield-bearer
(n.) Any small moth of the genus Aspidisca, whose larva makes a shieldlike covering for itself out of bits of leaves. |
Shittim wood
(n.) The wood of the shittah tree. |
Stag-horn fern
() See under Stag. |
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. |
Water shield
() An aquatic American plant (Brasenia peltata) having floating oval leaves, and the covered with a clear jelly. |
Wood
(a.) Mad |
Wood
(v. i.) To grow mad |
Wood
(n.) A large and thick collection of trees |
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 |
| giant | any creature of exceptional size |
giant moa
Dinornis giganteus | the largest moa, about feet high |
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 |
giant salamander
Megalobatrachus maximus | large (up to more than three feet) edible salamander of Asia |
Pacific giant salamander
Dicamptodon ensatus | large (to inches) salamander of western North America |
wood-frog
wood frog
Rana sylvatica | wideanging light-brown frog of moist North American woodlands especially spruce |
| giant tortoise | very large tortoises of the Galapagos and Seychelles islands |
Komodo dragon
Komodo lizard
dragon lizard
giant lizard
Varanus komodoensis | the largest lizard in the world ( feet), found on Indonesian islands |
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 |
wood duck
summer duck
wood widgeon
Aix sponsa | showy North American duck that nests in hollow trees |
| wood drake | male wood duck |
giant kangaroo
great grey kangaroo
Macropus giganteus | very large greyish-brown Australian kangaroo formerly abundant in open wooded areas |
carapace
shell cuticle
shield a | hard outer covering or case of certain organisms such as arthropods and turtles |
giant conch
Strombus gigas | a large variety of conch |
giant clam
Tridacna gigas | a large clam inhabiting reefs in the southern Pacific and weighing up to pounds |
sea scallop
giant scallop
Pecten magellanicus | a large scallop inhabiting deep waters of the Atlantic coast of North America |
giant northwest shipworm
Bankia setaceae | giant shipworm of the Pacific coast of North America |
architeuthis
giant squid | largest mollusk known about but never seen (tofeet long) |
giant crab
Macrocheira kaempferi | very large deep-water Japanese crab |
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 |
giant petrel
giant fulmar
Macronectes giganteus | large brownish petrel chiefly of Antarctic seas |
| giant schnauzer | a large schnauzer |
giant hornet
Vespa crabro | European hornet introduced into the United States |
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 |
| giant cockroach | large tropical American cockroaches |
| giant water bug | large water bug with piercing and sucking mouthparts, feeds on young fishes |
giant silkworm moth
silkworm moth | any silkworm moth of the family Saturniidae |
silkworm giant silkworm
wild wilkworm | larva of a saturniid moth, spins a large amount of strong silk in constructing its cocoon |
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 |
giant eland
Taurotragus derbianus | large dark striped eland of western equatorial Africa |
skunk
polecat wood pussy | American musteline mammal typically ejecting an intensely malodorous fluid when startled, in some classifications put in a separate subfamily Mephitinae |
giant armadillo
tatou
tatu
Priodontes giganteus | about three feet long exclusive of tail |
ant bear giant anteater
great anteater
tamanoir
Myrmecophaga jubata | large shaggy-haired toothless anteater with long tongue and powerful claws, of South America |
giant panda
panda panda bear
coon bear
Ailuropoda melanoleuca | large black-and-white herbivorous mammal of bamboo forests of China and Tibet, in some classifications considered a member of the bear family or of a separate family Ailuropodidae |