topminnow poeciliid fish
poeciliid
live-bearer | small usually brightlyolored viviparous surface-feeding fishes of fresh or brackish warm waters, often used in mosquito control |
bill
peak
eyeshade
visor
vizor | a brim that projects to the front to shade the eyes, he pulled down the bill of his cap and trudged ahead |
| sun visor | a shade (sometimes of green mica) affixed above the windshield of an automobile |
| visor vizor | a piece of armor plate (with eye slits) fixed or hinged to a medieval helmet to protect the face |
Abu Sayyaf
Bearer of the Sword | a small gang of terrorist thugs claiming to seek a separate Islamic state for the Muslim minority in the Philippines, uses bombing and assassination and extortion and kidnapping, In Abu Sayyaf kidnapped twenty people and beheaded one of the American captives |
Aquarius
Aquarius the Water Bearer
Water Bearer | the eleventh sign of the zodiac, the sun is in this sign from about Januaryto February |
Aquarius
Water Bearer | (astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Aquarius |
| armiger armor-bearer | a squire carrying the armor of a knight |
| carrier bearer toter | someone whose employment involves carrying something, the bonds were transmitted by carrier |
color bearer
standard-bearer | the soldier who carries the standard of the unit in military parades or in battle |
holder
bearer | the person who is in possession of a check or note or bond or document of title that is endorsed to him or to whoever holds it, the bond was marked `payable to bearer' |
| bearer | a messenger who bears or presents, a bearer of good tidings |
| office-bearer | the person who holds an office |
pallbearer
bearer | one of the mourners carrying the coffin at a funeral |
| standard-bearer | an outstanding leader of a political movement |
stretcher-bearer
litter-bearer | one who helps carry a stretcher |
pine hyacinth
Clematis baldwinii
Viorna baldwinii | erect clematis of Florida having pink to purple flowers |
wild hyacinth indigo squill
Camassia scilloides | eastern camas, eastern and central North America |
| hyacinth | any of numerous bulbous perennial herbs |
common hyacinth
Hyacinthus orientalis | widely grown for its fragrance and its white, pink, blue, or purplish flowers |
Roman hyacinth
Hyacinthus orientalis albulus | hyacinth with loosely flowered spikes, several growing from one bulb |
summer hyacinth
cape hyacinth
Hyacinthus candicans
Galtonia candicans | southern African herb with white bell-shaped flowers |
wild hyacinth wood hyacinth
bluebell harebell Hyacinthoides nonscripta
Scilla nonscripta | sometimes placed in genus Scilla |
| grape hyacinth | any of various early flowering spring hyacinths native to Eurasia having dense spikes of rounded blue flowers resembling bunches of small grapes |
common grape hyacinth
Muscari neglectum | prolific species having particularly beautiful dark blue flowers |
tassel hyacinth
Muscari comosum | large beautiful Mediterranean species having sterile bluish-violet flowers with fringed corollas forming a tuft above the fertile flowers |
hyacinth bean
bonavist
Indian bean Egyptian bean
Lablab purpureus
Dolichos lablab | perennial twining vine of Old World tropics having trifoliate leaves and racemes of fragrant purple pea-like flowers followed by maroon pods of edible seeds, grown as an ornamental and as a vegetable on the Indian subcontinent, sometimes placed in genus Dolichos |
water hyacinth
water orchid
Eichhornia crassipes
Eichhornia spesiosa | a tropical floating aquatic plant having spikes of large blue flowers, troublesome in clogging waterways especially in southern United States |
coupon bond
bearer bond | a bond issued with detachable coupons that must be presented to the issuer for interest payments |
hyacinth
jacinth | a red transparent variety of zircon used as a gemstone |