semester hour
credit hour | a unit of academic credit, one hour a week for an academic semester |
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 |
terminus terminal figure
term | (architecture) a statue or a human bust or an animal carved out of the top of a square pillar, originally used as a boundary marker in ancient Rome |
short-term memory
STM
immediate memory | what you can repeat immediately after perceiving it |
long-term memory
LTM | your general store of remembered information |
| term | any distinct quantity contained in a polynomial, the general term of an algebraic equation of the n-th degree |
| degree of a term | the sum of the exponents of the variables in the term |
| term | a word or expression used for some particular thing, he learned many medical terms |
| term paper | a composition intended to indicate a student's progress during a school term |
| term | one of the substantive phrases in a logical proposition, the major term of a syllogism must occur twice |
| major term | the term in a syllogism that is the predicate of the conclusion |
| minor term | the term in a syllogism that is the subject of the conclusion |
| middle term | the term in a syllogism that is common to both premises and excluded from the conclusion |
| condition term | (usually plural) a statement of what is required as part of an agreement, the contract set out the conditions of the lease, the terms of the treaty were generous |
slang slang expression
slang term | informal language consisting of words and expressions that are not considered appropriate for formal occasions, often vituperative or vulgar, their speech was full of slang expressions |
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 |
| term infant | infant born at a gestational age between and completed weeks |
| 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 |