attack onslaught onset onrush | (military) an offensive against an enemy (using weapons), the attack began at dawn |
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 |
onset oncoming | the beginning or early stages, the onset of pneumonia |
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 |
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 |
love-in-winter western prince's pine Chimaphila umbellata Chimaphila corymbosa | Eurasian herb with white or pinkish flowers in a terminal corymb |
winter jasmine Jasminum nudiflorum | deciduous rambling shrub widely cultivated for its winter-blooming yellow flowers |
winter hazel flowering hazel | any of several Asiatic deciduous shrubs cultivated for their nodding racemes of yellow flowers that appear before the leaves |
field pea field-pea plant Austrian winter pea Pisum sativum arvense Pisum arvense | variety of pea plant native to the Mediterranean region and North Africa and widely grown especially for forage |
rosebud cherry winter flowering cherry Prunus subhirtella | shrub or tree native to Japan cultivated as an ornamental for its rose-pink flowers |
winter currant Ribes sanguineum | a flowering shrub |
oregano marjoram pot marjoram wild marjoram winter sweet Origanum vulgare | aromatic Eurasian perennial |
dittany of crete cretan dittany crete dittany hop marjoram winter sweet Origanum dictamnus | dwarf aromatic shrub of Crete |
winter savory Satureja montana Satureia montana | erect perennial subshrub having pink or white flowers and leathery leaves with a flavor of thyme, southern Europe |
Jerusalem cherry winter cherry Madeira winter cherry Solanum pseudocapsicum | small South American shrub cultivated as a houseplant for its abundant ornamental but poisonous red or yellow cherry-sized fruit |
Chinese lantern plant winter cherry bladder cherry Physalis alkekengi | Old World perennial cultivated for its ornamental inflated papery orangeed calyx |
hemlock poison hemlock poison parsley California fern Nebraska fern winter fern Conium maculatum | large branching biennial herb native to Eurasia and Africa and adventive in North America having large fernlike leaves and white flowers, usually found in damp habitats, all parts extremely poisonous |
winter urn | a common name for a variety of Sarcosomataceae |
winter mushroom Flammulina velutipes | an edible agaric that is available in early spring or late fall when few other mushrooms are, has a viscid smooth orange to brown cap and a velvety stalk that turns black in maturity and pallid gills, often occur in clusters |
winter's bark | aromatic bark having tonic and stimulant properties |
type I diabetes insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus IDDM juvenile-onset diabetes juvenile diabetes growth-onset diabetes ketosis-prone diabetes ketoacidosis-prone diabetes autoimmune diabetes | severe diabetes mellitus with an early onset, characterized by polyuria and excessive thirst and increased appetite and weight loss and episodic ketoacidosis, diet and insulin injections are required to control the disease |
d type II diabetes non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus NIDDM non-insulin-dependent diabetes ketosisesistant diabetes mellitus ketosisesistant diabetes ketoacidosisesistant diabetes mellitus ketoacidosisesistant diabetes adult-onset diabetes mellitus adult-onset diabetes maturity-onset diabetes mellitus maturity-onset diabetes mature-onset diabetes | mild form of diabetes mellitus that develops gradually in adults, can be precipitated by obesity or severe stress or menopause or other factors, can usually be controlled by diet and hypoglycemic agents without injections of insulin |
winter solstice | December , when the sun is at its southernmost point |
winter wintertime | the coldest season of the year, in the northern hemisphere it extends from the winter solstice to the vernal equinox |
winter overwinter | spend the winter, We wintered on the Riviera, Shackleton's men overwintered on Elephant Island |
winter-blooming winter-flowering | of plants that bloom during the winter |