button quail button-quail bustard quail hemipode | small quail-like terrestrial bird of southern Eurasia and northern Africa that lacks a hind toe, classified with wading birds but inhabits grassy plains |
striped button quail Turnix sylvatica | a variety of button quail having stripes |
button | a round fastener sewn to shirts and coats etc to fit through buttonholes |
button | any artifact that resembles a button |
buttonhole button hole | a hole through which buttons are pushed |
coat button | a button on a coat |
horn button | a button that you press to activate the horn of an automobile |
mouse button | a push button on the mouse |
panic button | a button to push in order to summon help in case of an emergency, the circuit is operated by a panic button, when he saw that I was angry he hit the panic button |
push button push button | an electrical switch operated by pressing, the elevator was operated by push buttons, the push beside the bed operated a buzzer at the desk |
push-button radio | a radio receiver that can be tuned by pressing buttons |
release button | a device that when pressed will release part of a mechanism |
reset button | a push button that you press to activate the reset mechanism |
shirt button | a button on a shirt |
clitoris clit button | a female sexual organ homologous to the penis |
navel umbilicus bellybutton belly button omphalos omphalus | a scar where the umbilical cord was attached, you were not supposed to show your navel on television, they argued whether or not Adam had a navel, she had a tattoo just above her bellybutton |
gut issue hot-button issue | an issue that elicits strong emotional reactions |
button | a round flat badge displaying information and suitable for pinning onto a garment, they passed out campaign buttons for their candidate |
repeat repetition | an event that repeats, the events today were a repeat of yesterday's |
button | any of various plant parts that resemble buttons |
button pink Dianthus latifolius | much-branched pink with flowers in clusters, closely related to sweet William |
globe amaranth bachelor's button Gomphrena globosa | tropical American herb having rose to red or purple flowers that can be dried without losing color |
mescal button sacred mushroom magic mushroom | the button-shaped top of the mescal cactus, a source of psilocybin |
cornflower bachelor's button bluebottle Centaurea cyanus | an annual Eurasian plant cultivated in North America having showy heads of blue or purple or pink or white flowers |
brass buttons Cotula coronopifolia | South African herb with golden-yellow globose flower heads, naturalized in moist areas along coast of California, cultivated as an ornamental |
billy buttons | any of various plants of the genus Craspedia grown for their downy foliage and globose heads of golden flowers, Australia and New Zealand |
blazing star button snakeroot gayfeather gay-feather snakeroot | any of various North American plants of the genus Liatris having racemes or panicles of small discoid flower heads |
tansy golden buttons scented fern Tanacetum vulgare | common perennial aromatic herb native to Eurasia having buttonlike yellow flower heads and bitter-tasting pinnate leaves sometimes used medicinally |
button tree button mangrove Conocarpus erectus | evergreen tree or shrub with fruit resembling buttons and yielding heavy hard compact wood |
orange milkwort yellow milkwort candyweed yellow bachelor's button Polygala lutea | bog plant of pine barrens of southeastern United States having spikes of irregular yellow-orange flowers |
button snakeroot Eryngium aquaticum | coarse prickly perennial eryngo with aromatic roots, southeastern United States, often confused with rattlesnake master |
rattlesnake master rattlesnake's master button snakeroot Eryngium yuccifolium | coarse prickly perennial eryngo of United States thought to cure rattlesnake bite |
button fern Tectaria cicutaria | Jamaican fern having round buttonlike bulbils |
Indian button fern Tectaria macrodonta | fern of tropical Asia having round buttonlike bulbils |
button fern Pellaea rotundifolia | fern of New Zealand and Australia having trailing fronds with dark green buttonlike leaflets |
recur repeat | happen or occur again, This is a recurring story |
repeat echo | to say again or imitate, followers echoing the cries of their leaders |
repeat reiterate ingeminate iterate restate retell | to say, state, or perform again, She kept reiterating her request |
close up clam up dummy up shut up belt up button up be quiet keep mum | refuse to talk or stop talking, fall silent, The children shut up when their father approached |
button | fasten with buttons, button the dress |
button | provide with buttons, button a shirt |
reprise reprize repeat recapitulate | repeat an earlier theme of a composition |
duplicate reduplicate double repeat replicate | make or do or perform again, He could never replicate his brilliant performance of the magic trick |
repeat take over | do over, They would like to take it over again |
button-down | of a shirt, having the ends of the collar fastened down by buttons, Brooks Brothers button-down shirts |
button-down buttoned-down conservative | unimaginatively conventional, a colorful character in the buttoned-down, dull-grey world of business- Newsweek |
on the nose on the button | being precise with regard to a prescribed or specified criterion, his guess was on the nose, the prediction for snow was right on the button |
button-shaped | shaped like a button, button-shaped white flowers |
precisely exactly on the nose on the dot on the button | just as it should be, `Precisely, my lord,' he said |