Addle-headed (a.) Alt. of Addle-pated |
Basking shark () One of the largest species of sharks (Cetorhinus maximus), so called from its habit of basking in the sun |
Beetle-headed (a.) Dull |
Bluff-headed (a.) Built with the stem nearly straight up and down. |
Bronze (a.) An alloy of copper and tin, to which small proportions of other metals, especially zinc, are sometimes added. It is hard and sonorous, and is used for statues, bells, cannon, etc., the proportions of the ingredients being varied to suit the particular purposes. The varieties containing the higher proportions of tin are brittle, as in bell metal and speculum metal. |
Bronze (a.) A statue, bust, etc., cast in bronze. |
Bronze (a.) A yellowish or reddish brown, the color of bronze |
Bronze (a.) Boldness |
Bronze (n.) To give an appearance of bronze to, by a coating of bronze powder, or by other means |
Bronze (n.) To make hard or unfeeling |
Buckler-headed (a.) Having a head like a buckler. |
Buffle-headed (a.) Having a large head, like a buffalo |
Clear-headed (a.) Having a clear understanding |
Cool-headed (a.) Having a temper not easily excited |
Dog-headed (a.) Having a head shaped like that of a dog |
Double-headed (a.) Having two heads |
Dunder-headed (a.) Thick-headed |
Feather-headed (a.) Giddy |
Flat-headed (a.) Having a head with a flattened top |
Genus (n.) A class of objects divided into several subordinate species |
Genus (n.) An assemblage of species, having so many fundamental points of structure in common, that in the judgment of competent scientists, they may receive a common substantive name. A genus is not necessarily the lowest definable group of species, for it may often be divided into several subgenera. In proportion as its definition is exact, it is natural genus |
Giddy-headed (a.) Thoughtless |
Golden (a.) Made of gold |
Golden (a.) Having the color of gold |
Golden (a.) Very precious |
Golden-eye (n.) A duck (Glaucionetta clangula), found in Northern Europe, Asia, and America. The American variety (var. Americana) is larger. Called whistler, garrot, gowdy, pied widgeon, whiteside, curre, and doucker. Barrow's golden-eye of America (G. Islandica) is less common. |
Golden-rod (n.) A tall herb (Solidago Virga-aurea), bearing yellow flowers in a graceful elongated cluster. The name is common to all the species of the genus Solidago. |
Great (superl.) Large in space |
Great (superl.) Large in number |
Great (superl.) Long continued |
Great (superl.) Superior |
Great (superl.) Endowed with extraordinary powers |
Great (superl.) Holding a chief position |
Great (superl.) Entitled to earnest consideration |
Great (superl.) Pregnant |
Great (superl.) More than ordinary in degree |
Great (superl.) Older, younger, or more remote, by single generation |
Great (n.) The whole |
Great-bellied (a.) Having a great belly |
Great-grandchild (n.) The child of one's grandson or granddaughter. |
Great-granddaughter (n.) A daughter of one's grandson or granddaughter. |
Great-grandfather (n.) The father of one's grandfather or grandmother. |
Great-grandmother (n.) The mother of one's grandfather or grandmother. |
Great-grandson (n.) A son of one's grandson or granddaughter. |
Great-hearted (a.) High-spirited |
Great-hearted (a.) Generous |
Great-heartedness (n.) The quality of being greathearted |
Gross-headed (a.) Thick-skulled |
Hammerhead (n.) A shark of the genus Sphyrna or Zygaena, having the eyes set on projections from the sides of the head, which gives it a hammer shape. The Sphyrna zygaena is found in the North Atlantic. Called also hammer fish, and balance fish. |
Hammerhead (n.) A fresh-water fish |
shark repellent porcupine provision | a measure undertaken by a corporation to discourage unwanted takeover attempts |
golden parachute | giving top executives lucrative benefits that must be paid by the acquirer if they are discharged after a takeover |
Peasant's Revolt Great Revolt | a widespread rebellion in against poll taxes and other inequities that oppressed the poorer people of England, suppressed by Richard II |
great care | more attention and consideration than is normally bestowed by prudent persons, the pilot exercised great care in landing |
smooth | the act of smoothing, he gave his hair a quick smooth |
World War I World War Great War First World War War to End War | a war between the allies (Russia, France, British Empire, Italy, United States, Japan, Rumania, Serbia, Belgium, Greece, Portugal, Montenegro) and the Central Powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary, Turkey, Bulgaria) from to |
form genus | an artificial taxonomic category established on the basis of morphological resemblance for organisms of obscure true relationships especially fossil forms |
Heliobacter genus Heliobacter | a genus of helical or curved or straight aerobic bacteria with rounded ends and multiple flagella, found in the gastric mucosa of primates (including humans) |
bacteria genus | a genus of bacteria |
Aerobacter genus Aerobacter | aerobic bacteria widely distributed in nature |
Rhizobium genus Rhizobium | the type genus of Rhizobiaceae, usually occur in the root nodules of legumes, can fix atmospheric oxygen |
Agrobacterium genus Agrobacterium | small motile bacterial rods that can reduce nitrates and cause galls on plant stems |
genus Bacillus | type genus of the Bacillaceae, includes many saprophytes important in decay of organic matter and a number of parasites |
genus Clostridium | anaerobic or micro-aerophilic rod-shaped or spindle-shaped saprophytes, nearly cosmopolitan in soil, animal intestines, and dung |
genus Nostoc | type genus of the family Nostocaceae: freshwater blue-green algae |
genus Trichodesmium | a genus of blue-green algae |
Pseudomonas genus Pseudomonas | type genus of the family Pseudomonodaceae |
Xanthomonas genus Xanthomonas | a genus of bacteria similar to Pseudomonas but producing a yellow pigment that is not soluble in water |
Nitrobacter genus Nitrobacter | rod-shaped soil bacteria |
Nitrosomonas genus Nitrosomonas | ellipsoidal soil bacteria |
genus Thiobacillus | a genus of bacteria |
genus Spirillum | a genus of bacteria |
genus Vibrio | a genus of bacteria |
Bacteroides genus Bacteroides | type genus of Bacteroidaceae, genus of Gram-negative rodlike anaerobic bacteria producing no endospores and no pigment and living in the gut of man and animals |
Calymmatobacterium genus Calymmatobacterium | a genus of bacterial rods containing only the one species that causes granuloma inguinale |
Francisella genus Francisella | a genus of Gram-negative aerobic bacteria that occur as pathogens and parasite in many animals (including humans) |
genus Corynebacterium | the type genus of the family Corynebacteriaceae which is widely distributed in nature, the best known are parasites and pathogens of humans and domestic animals |
genus Listeria | a genus of aerobic motile bacteria of the family Corynebacteriaceae containing small Gram-positive rods |
genus Escherichia | a genus of bacteria |
genus Klebsiella | a genus of bacteria |
genus Salmonella | a genus of bacteria |
genus Serratia Serratia | a genus of motile peritrichous bacteria that contain small Gram-negative rod |
genus Shigella | a genus of bacteria |
genus Erwinia | a genus of bacteria |
genus Rickettsia | can cause typhus and Rocky Mountain spotted fever in humans |
genus Chlamydia | type genus of the family Chlamydiaceae: diseaseausing parasites |
genus Mycoplasma | type and sole genus of the family Mycoplasmataceae |
genus Actinomyces | type genus of the family Actinomycetaceae |
genus Streptomyces | type genus of the family Streptomycetaceae |
genus Mycobacterium | nonmotile Gram-positive aerobic bacteria |
Polyangium genus Polyangium | type genus of the family Polyangiaceae: myxobacteria with rounded fruiting bodies enclosed in a membrane |
Micrococcus genus Micrococcus | type genus of the family Micrococcaceae |
genus Staphylococcus | includes many pathogenic species |
genus Lactobacillus | type genus of the family Lactobacillaceae |
genus Diplococcus | a genus of bacteria |
genus Streptococcus | a genus of bacteria |
Spirochaeta genus Spirochaeta | the type genus of the family Spirochaetaceae, a bacterium that is flexible, undulating, and chiefly aquatic |
genus Treponema | type genus of Treponemataceae: anaerobic spirochetes with an undulating rigid body, parasitic in warm-blooded animals |
genus Borrelia | small flexible parasitic spirochetes having three to five wavy spirals |
genus Leptospira | very slender aerobic spirochetes, free-living or parasitic in mammals |