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 |
commutation ticket season ticket | a ticket good for several trips or to attend a season of entertainments, sold at a reduced rate |
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 |
winter solstice | December , when the sun is at its southernmost point |
silly season | a time usually late summer characterized by exaggerated news stories about frivolous matters for want of real news |
season time of year | one of the natural periods into which the year is divided by the equinoxes and solstices or atmospheric conditions, the regular sequence of the seasons |
winter wintertime | the coldest season of the year, in the northern hemisphere it extends from the winter solstice to the vernal equinox |
growing season | the season during which a crop grows best |
holiday season | a time when many people take holidays |
high season peak season | the season when travel is most active and rates are highest, they traveled to Europe in high season |
off-season | the season when travel is least active and rates are lowest |
rainy season | one of the two seasons in tropical climates |
dry season | one of the two seasons in tropical climates |