Feathery
91love-in-a-mist — noun 1. tropical American passion flower with finely dissected bracts; stems malodorous when crushed • Syn: ↑running pop, ↑wild water lemon, ↑Passiflora foetida • Hypernyms: ↑passionflower, ↑passionflower vine 2. chickweed with hairy silver grey… …
92Massachusetts fern — noun delicate feathery shield fern of the eastern United States; sometimes placed in genus Thelypteris • Syn: ↑Parathelypteris simulata, ↑Thelypteris simulata • Hypernyms: ↑fern • Member Holonyms: ↑Parathelypteris, ↑ …
93sertularian — noun feathery colony of long branched stems bearing stalkless paired polyps • Hypernyms: ↑hydrozoan, ↑hydroid • Member Holonyms: ↑Sertularia, ↑genus Sertularia * * * I. | ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷| ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ən adjective …
94silk oak — noun any of several Australian timber trees having usually fernlike foliage and mottled wood used in cabinetry and veneering • Hypernyms: ↑grevillea • Hyponyms: ↑red flowered silky oak, ↑Grevillea banksii, ↑silver oak, ↑Grevillela parallela, ↑ …
95smoke tree — noun 1. greyish green shrub of desert regions of southwestern United States and Mexico having sparse foliage and terminal spikes of bluish violet flowers; locally important as source of a light colored honey of excellent flavor • Syn: ↑Dalea… …
96A feather in the cap — Feather Feath er (f[e^][th] [ e]r), n. [OE. fether, AS. fe[eth]er; akin to D. veder, OHG. fedara, G. feder, Icel. fj[ o][eth]r, Sw. fj[ a]der, Dan. fj[ae]der, Gr. ptero n wing, feather, pe tesqai to fly, Skr. pattra wing, feather, pat to fly, and …
97Adlumia cirrhosa — Fumitory Fu mi*to*ry, n. [OE. fumetere, F. fumeterre, prop., smoke of the ground, fr. L. fumus smoke + terra earth. See {Fume}, and {Terrace}.] (Bot.) The common uame of several species of the genus Fumaria, annual herbs of the Old World, with… …
98Aigret — Ai gret, Aigrette Ai*grette, n. [F., a sort of white heron, with a tuft of feathers on its head; a tuft of feathers; dim. of the same word as heron. See {Heron}, and cf. {Egret}, {Egrette}.] 1. (Zo[ o]l.) The small white European heron. See… …
99Aigrette — Aigret Ai gret, Aigrette Ai*grette, n. [F., a sort of white heron, with a tuft of feathers on its head; a tuft of feathers; dim. of the same word as heron. See {Heron}, and cf. {Egret}, {Egrette}.] 1. (Zo[ o]l.) The small white European heron.… …
100all fours — Old Old, a. [Compar. {Older}; superl. {Oldest}.] [OE. old, ald, AS. ald, eald; akin to D. oud, OS. ald, OFries. ald, old, G. alt, Goth. alpeis, and also to Goth. alan to grow up, Icel. ala to bear, produce, bring up, L. alere to nourish. Cf.… …
