Meuse Meuse River Argonne Argonne Forest Meuse-Argonne Meuse-Argonne operation | an American operation in World War I (), American troops under Pershing drove back the German armies which were saved only by the armistice on November |
stone curlew thick-knee Burhinus oedicnemus | large-headed large-eyed crepuscular or nocturnal shorebird of the Old World and tropical America having a thickened knee joint |
thick-billed murre Uria lomvia | a variety of murre |
forest tent caterpillar Malacosoma disstria | larvae of a gregarious North American moth that spins a web resembling a carpet rather than a tent, serious defoliator of deciduous trees |
forest goat spindle horn Pseudoryx nghetinhensis | cow-like creature with the glossy coat of a horse and the agility of a goat and the long horns of an antelope, characterized as a cow that lives the life of a goat |
thick skin | skin that is very thick (as an elephant or rhinoceros) |
forest fire | an uncontrolled fire in a wooded area |
forest wood woods | the trees and other plants in a large densely wooded area |
rain forest rainforest | a forest with heavy annual rainfall |
temperate rain forest | a rain forest in a temperate area |
tropical rain forest selva | a rain forest in a tropical area |
midst thick | the location of something surrounded by other things, in the midst of the crowd |
Petrified Forest National Park | a national park in Arizona having the world's largest collection of petrified coniferous trees |
New Forest | an area of woods and heathland in southern Hampshire that was set aside by William I as Crown property in , originally a royal hunting ground but now administered as parkland, noted for its ponies |
Black Forest Schwarzwald | a hilly forest region in southwestern Germany |
forest woodland timberland timber | land that is covered with trees and shrubs |
riparian forest | woodlands along the banks of stream or river |
Sherwood Forest | an ancient forest in central England, formerly a royal hunting ground, said to be the home of Robin Hood and his merry band |
satyr forest god | one of a class of woodland deities, attendant on Bacchus, identified with Roman fauns |
fire warden forest fire fighter ranger | an official who is responsible for managing and protecting an area of forest |
De Forest Lee De Forest Father of Radio | United States electrical engineer who inpatented the first triode vacuum tube, which made it possible to detect and amplify radio waves (-) |
dense blazing star Liatris pycnostachya | perennial of southeastern and central United States having very dense spikes of purple flowers, often cultivated for cut flowers |
forest red gum Eucalypt tereticornis | tall tree of Queensland and New South Wales and Victoria |
dense-leaved elodea Elodea densa Egeria densa | aquatic plant with deep green foliage useful to oxygenate an aquarium, sometimes placed in genus Egeria |
Morchella crassipes thick-footed morel | a delicious morel with a conic fertile portion having deep and irregular pits |
old growth virgin forest | forest or woodland having a mature or overly mature ecosystem more or less uninfluenced by human activity |
afforest forest | establish a forest on previously unforested land, afforest the mountains |
thick | abounding, having a lot of, the top was thick with dust |
thick-billed | having a thick beak |
thick-haired | having thick hair |
thick-stemmed | having a thick stem |
a blockheaded boneheaded duncical duncish fatheaded loggerheaded thick thickheaded thick-skulled wooden-headed | (used informally) stupid |
dense dim dull dumb obtuse slow | slow to learn or understand, lacking intellectual acuity, so dense he never understands anything I say to him, never met anyone quite so dim, although dull at classical learning, at mathematics he was uncommonly quick- Thackeray, dumb officials make some really dumb decisions, he was either normally stupid or being deliberately obtuse, worked with the slow students |
chummy buddy-buddy thick(p) | (used informally) associated on close terms, a close friend, the bartender was chummy with the regular customers, the two were thick as thieves for months |
thick | having component parts closely crowded together, a compact shopping center, a dense population, thick crowds, a thick forest, thick hair |
thickset | planted or growing close together, thickset trees |
thick-branched | having thick branches |
thick-bodied | having a thick body |
fogyish moss-grown mossy stick-in-the-mud(p) stodgy | (used pejoratively) out of fashion, old fashioned, moss-grown ideas about family life |
dense | having high relative density or specific gravity, dense as lead |
slurred thick | spoken as if with a thick tongue, the thick speech of a drunkard, his words were slurred |
adult big full-grown fully grown grown grownup | (of animals) fully developed, an adult animal, a grown woman |
thick deep | (of darkness) very intense, thick night, thick darkness, a face in deep shadow, deep night |
moss-grown mossy | overgrown with moss |
thick-lipped | having thick lips |
dense thick | hard to pass through because of dense growth, dense vegetation, thick woods |
thick-skinned tough-skinned | insensitive to criticism |
compact heavyset stocky thick thickset | having a short and solid form or stature, a wrestler of compact build, he was tall and heavyset, stocky legs, a thickset young man |
thick | not thin, of a specific thickness or of relatively great extent from one surface to the opposite usually in the smallest of the three solid dimensions, an inch thick, a thick board, a thick sandwich, spread a thick layer of butter, thick coating of dust, thick warm blankets |
thick | relatively dense in consistency, thick cream, thick soup, thick smoke, thick fog |