southern spadefoot
Scaphiopus multiplicatus | this spadefoot toad lives in the southwestern United States |
southern cabbage butterfly
Pieris protodice | common North American form of cabbage butterfly |
southern bog lemming
Synaptomys cooperi | of low bogs and meadows of northeastern and central United States and southern Canada |
southern flying squirrel
Glaucomys volans | small large-eyed nocturnal flying squirrel of eastern United States |
scup southern porgy
southern scup
Stenotomus aculeatus | porgy of southern Atlantic coastal waters of North America |
southern flounder
Paralichthys lethostigmus | flounder of southern United States |
| Southern Tai | a branch of the Tai languages |
| Southern Baptist Convention | an association of Southern Baptists |
| southern hemisphere | the hemisphere to the south of the equator |
Zimbabwe
Republic of Zimbabwe
Rhodesia
Southern Rhodesia | a landlocked republic in south central Africa formerly called Rhodesia, achieved independence from the United Kingdom in |
Southern Cross
Crux
Crux Australis | a small conspicuous constellation in the southern hemisphere in the Milky Way near Centaurus |
Triangulum Australe
Southern Triangle | a small bright constellation in the polar region of the southern hemisphere near Circinus and Apus |
| Southern Baptist | a member of the Southern Baptist Convention |
aurora australis
southern lights | the aurora of the southern hemisphere |
| El Nino southern oscillation | a more intense El Nino that occurs every few years when the welling up of cold nutrientich water does not occur, kills plankton and fish and affects weather patterns |
longleaf pine
pitch pine southern yellow pine
Georgia pine
Pinus palustris | large three-needled pine of southeastern United States having very long needles and gnarled twisted limbs, bark is red-brown deeply ridged, an important timber tree |
southern white cedar
coast white cedar
Atlantic white cedar
white cypress
white cedar Chamaecyparis thyoides | slow-growing medium-sized cedar of east coast of the United States, resembles American arborvitae |
southern red cedar
Juniperus silicicola | juniper of swampy coastal regions of southeastern United States, similar to eastern red cedar |
bald cypress
swamp cypress
pond bald cypress
southern cypress
Taxodium distichum | common cypress of southeastern United States having trunk expanded at base, found in coastal swamps and flooding river bottoms |
southern magnolia
evergreen magnolia
large-flowering magnolia
bull bay
Magnolia grandiflora | evergreen tree of southern United States having large stiff glossy leaves and huge white sweet-smelling flowers |
southern spatterdock
Nuphar sagittifolium | of flowing waters of the southeastern United States, may form obstructive mats in streams |
| southern aster | a variety of aster |
southern harebell
Campanula divaricata | bellflower of southeastern United States (Maryland to Georgia) having pale blue flowers |
southern beech
evergreen beech | any of various beeches of the southern hemisphere having small usually evergreen leaves |
southern red oak
swamp red oak
turkey oak Quercus falcata | large round-topped deciduous tree with spreading branches having narrow falcate leaves with deeply sinuate lobes and wood similar to that of northern red oaks, New Jersey to Illinois and southward |
southern live oak
Quercus virginiana | medium-sized evergreen native to eastern North America to the east coast of Mexico, often cultivated as shade tree for it wide-spreading crown, extremely hard tough durable wood once used in shipbuilding |
southern blue flag
Iris virginica | similar to blue flag, the eastern United States |
Southern crab apple
flowering crab Malus angustifolia | small tree or shrub of southeastern United States, cultivated as an ornamental for its roseolored blossoms |
Southern dewberry
Rubus trivialis | of southern North America |
arrow wood
southern arrow wood
Viburnum dentatum | deciduous shrub of eastern North America having blue-black berries and tough pliant wood formerly used to make arrows |
southern buckthorn
shittimwood shittim
mock orange Bumelia lycioides | shrubby thorny deciduous tree of southeastern United States with white flowers and small black drupaceous fruit |
common maidenhair
Venushair
Venus'-hair fern
southern maidenhair
Venus maidenhair
Adiantum capillus-veneris | delicate maidenhair fern with slender shining black leaf stalks, cosmopolitan |
broad beech fern
southern beech fern
Phegopteris hexagonoptera
Dryopteris hexagonoptera
Thelypteris hexagonoptera | beech fern of North American woodlands having strawolored stripes |
| southerly southern | from the south, used especially of wind, a hot southerly wind, southern breezes, the winds are southerly |
| southerly southern | situated in or oriented toward the south, a southern exposure, took a southerly course |
| southern | situated in or coming from regions of the south, the southern hemisphere, southern constellations |
| southern | in or characteristic of a region of the United States south of (approximately) the Mason-Dixon line, southern hospitality, southern cooking, southern plantations |