american : Idioms & Phrases

• noun an American whose ancestors were born in Africa
  Afro-American; African American; African-American.
  

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• noun a nonstandard form of American English characteristically spoken by African Americans in the United States
  Black Vernacular English; Black English Vernacular; Black Vernacular; African American English; AAVE; Ebonics; Black English.
  

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• noun a nonstandard form of American English characteristically spoken by African Americans in the United States
  Black Vernacular English; Black English Vernacular; Black Vernacular; African American English; AAVE; Ebonics; Black English.
  

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• noun an American whose ancestors were born in Africa
  Afro-American; African American; African-American.
  
• adjective satellite pertaining to or characteristic of Americans of African ancestry
  African-American.
  
  • Afro-American culture
  • many black people preferred to be called African-American or Afro-American

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• noun music created by African-American musicians; early forms were songs that had a melodic line and a strong rhythmic beat with repeated choruses
  black music.
  

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• noun an American whose ancestors were born in Africa
  Afro-American; African American; African-American.
  
• adjective satellite pertaining to or characteristic of Americans of African ancestry
  African-American.
  
  • Afro-American culture
  • many black people preferred to be called African-American or Afro-American

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• noun widely cultivated American monocarpic plant with greenish-white flowers on a tall stalk; blooms only after ten to twenty years and then dies
  Agave americana.
  

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• noun large alligator of the southeastern United States
  Alligator mississipiensis.
  

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• noun tropical American plants with basal rosettes of fibrous sword-shaped leaves and flowers in tall spikes; some cultivated for ornament or for fiber
  century plant; agave.
  

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• noun small deciduous clump-forming tree or shrub of eastern United States
  Aralia spinosa; Hercules'-club; devil's walking stick.
  

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• noun fleet antelope-like ruminant of western North American plains with small branched horns
  Antilocapra americana; pronghorn; prongbuck; pronghorn antelope.
  

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• noun small evergreen of eastern North America having tiny scalelike leaves on flattened branchlets
  northern white cedar; Thuja occidentalis; white cedar.
  

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• noun white-flowered West Indian plant whose root yields arrowroot starch
  arrowroot; Maranta arundinaceae; obedience plant.
  

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• noun slender aspen native to North America
  American aspen; Populus tremuloides.
  

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• noun a variety of badger native to America
  Taxidea taxus.
  

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• noun an association of Northern Baptists
  Northern Baptist Convention.
  

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• noun deciduous shrub of eastern North America whose leaves turn scarlet in autumn and having racemes of yellow flowers followed by ellipsoid glossy red berries
  Berberis canadensis.
  

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• noun large American shade tree with large dark green leaves and rounded crown
  American basswood; Tilia americana.
  

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• noun North American forest tree with light green leaves and edible nuts
  white beech; red beech; Fagus grandifolia; Fagus americana.
  

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• noun large shaggy-haired brown bison of North American plains
  American bison; buffalo; Bison bison.
  

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• noun a kind of bittern
  stake driver; Botaurus lentiginosus.
  

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• noun twining shrub of North America having yellow capsules enclosing scarlet seeds
  bittersweet; climbing bittersweet; waxwork; shrubby bittersweet; false bittersweet; staff vine; Celastrus scandens.
  

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• noun brown to black North American bear; smaller and less ferocious than the brown bear
  black bear; Euarctos americanus; Ursus americanus.
  

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• noun primarily a bark feeder on aerial parts and roots of apple and other trees
  Eriosoma lanigerum; woolly apple aphid.
  

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• noun of the eastern United States: New Jersey to South Carolina
  Narthecium americanum.
  

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• noun plant of western North America and northeastern Asia having prostrate stems with dense racemes of pale violet to lilac flowers
  Veronica americana; brooklime.
  

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• noun large shaggy-haired brown bison of North American plains
  American bison; buffalo; Bison bison.
  

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• noun bugbane of the eastern United States having erect racemes of white flowers
  Cimicifuga americana; summer cohosh.
  

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• noun the capital of the United States in the District of Columbia and a tourist mecca; George Washington commissioned Charles L'Enfant to lay out the city in 1791
  Washington D.C.; Washington; capital of the United States.
  

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• noun any of several pink-flowered marsh plant of the eastern United States resembling a true centaury
  Sabbatia stellaris; rose pink; bitter floom; Sabbatia Angularis; marsh pink.
  

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• noun small arboreal tropical American insectivorous lizards with the ability to change skin color
  Anolis carolinensis; anole.
  

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• noun hard smooth-textured cheese; originally made in Cheddar in southwestern England
  Armerican cheddar; cheddar cheese; cheddar.
  

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• noun large tree found from Maine to Alabama
  American chestnut; Castanea dentata.
  

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• noun civil war in the United States between the North and the South; 1861-1865
  United States Civil War; War between the States.
  

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• noun large reddish brown free-flying cockroach originally from southern United States but now widely distributed
  Periplaneta americana.
  

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• noun any of various tall perennial herbs constituting the genus Frasera; widely distributed in warm dry upland areas of California, Oregon, and Washington
  American columbo; deer's-ear; columbo; deer's-ears; pyramid plant.
  

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• noun a coot found in North America
  water hen; Fulica americana; marsh hen; mud hen.
  

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• noun common copper butterfly of central and eastern North America
  Lycaena hypophlaeas.
  

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• noun medium-sized tree of the eastern United States having pink blossoms and small yellow fruit
  garland crab; Malus coronaria.
  

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• noun trailing red-fruited plant
  large cranberry; Vaccinium macrocarpon.
  

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• noun deciduous North American shrub or small tree having three-lobed leaves and red berries
  Viburnum trilobum; cranberry bush; highbush cranberry; cranberry tree.
  

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• noun common large crayfishes of eastern North America
  

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• noun a common creeper in North America with a down-curved bill
  Certhia americana; brown creeper.
  

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• noun of southwestern Europe; cultivated in Florida
  Barbarea verna; early winter cress; American cress; Belle Isle cress; Barbarea praecox; land cress.
  

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• noun common crow of North America
  Corvus brachyrhyncos.
  

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• noun of eastern North America
  Northern dewberry; Rubus flagellaris.
  
• noun North American dewberry
  Rubus canadensis.
  

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• noun common tick that can transmit Rocky Mountain spotted fever and tularemia
  wood tick; Dermacentor variabilis.
  

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• noun violet of eastern North America having pale violet to white flowers
  Viola conspersa.
  

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• noun common North American shrub with reddish purple twigs and white flowers
  Cornus stolonifera; red osier dogwood; redbrush; red dogwood; red osier.
  

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• noun the widespread aspiration of Americans to live better than their parents did
  

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• noun small shrub of colder parts of North America and Greenland
  Betula glandulosa; Newfoundland dwarf birch.
  

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• noun a large eagle of North America that has a white head and dark wings and body
  Haliaeetus leucocephalus; bald eagle.
  

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• noun a common egret of the genus Egretta found in America; it is a variety of the Old World white egret Casmerodius albus
  great white heron; Egretta albus.
  

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• noun common elder of central and eastern North America bearing purple-black berries; fruit used in wines and jellies
  black elderberry; sweet elder; Sambucus canadensis.
  

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• noun large North American deer with large much-branched antlers in the male
  elk; Cervus elaphus canadensis; wapiti.
  
• noun common deer of temperate Europe and Asia
  red deer; elk; Cervus elaphus; wapiti.
  

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• noun large ornamental tree with graceful gradually spreading branches common in eastern North America
  rock elm; Ulmus americana; water elm; white elm.
  

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• noun the English language as used in the United States
  American; American English.
  

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• noun a part of Niagara Falls in western New York (north of Buffalo)
  

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• noun a featherfoil of the eastern United States with submerged spongy inflated flower stalks and white flowers
  water gillyflower; Hottonia inflata.
  

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• noun a major political party in the United States in the early 19th century; founded by Alexander Hamilton; favored a strong centralized government
  Federalist Party; Federal Party.
  

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• noun a federation of North American labor unions that merged with the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1955
  AFL.
  

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• noun the largest federation of North American labor unions; formed in 1955
  AFL-CIO.
  

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• noun stout perennial herb of the eastern United States with whitish flowers; leaves traditionally used by Catawba Indians to treat burns
  Parthenium integrifolium; wild quinine; prairie dock.
  

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• noun the national flag of the United States of America
  Old Glory; Star-Spangled Banner; Stars and Stripes.
  

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• noun a fish with a dark-blue back and whitish sides with red stripes; found in swamps and streams of Florida
  Jordanella floridae; flagfish.
  

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• noun erect deciduous North American shrub with yellow-white flowers
  Lonicera canadensis; fly honeysuckle.
  

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• noun New World flying squirrels
  

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• noun a game played by two teams of 11 players on a rectangular field 100 yards long; teams try to get possession of the ball and advance it across the opponents goal line in a series of (running or passing) plays
  American football.
  

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• noun a game played by two teams of 11 players on a rectangular field 100 yards long; teams try to get possession of the ball and advance it across the opponents goal line in a series of (running or passing) plays
  American football.
  

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• noun an American breed of foxhounds used for hunting both in packs and individually
  

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• noun American plant with roundish heart-shaped or kidney-shaped leaves; usually rooted in muddy bottoms of ponds and ditches
  Limnodium spongia.
  

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• noun American purple gallinule
  Porphyrula martinica.
  

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• noun any of various tall perennial herbs constituting the genus Frasera; widely distributed in warm dry upland areas of California, Oregon, and Washington
  American columbo; deer's-ear; columbo; deer's-ears; pyramid plant.
  

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• noun subshrub with serrate leaves and cream-colored to pink or purple flowers in spikelike racemes; North America
  wood sage; Teucrium canadense.
  

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• noun North American woodland herb similar to and used as substitute for the Chinese ginseng
  sang; Panax quinquefolius.
  

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• noun medium-sized birch of eastern North America having white or pale grey bark and valueless wood; occurs often as a second-growth forest tree
  gray birch; grey birch; American gray birch; Betula populifolia.
  

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• noun small green or yellow-green toad with small black bars and stripes
  Bufo debilis.
  

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• noun medium-sized birch of eastern North America having white or pale grey bark and valueless wood; occurs often as a second-growth forest tree
  gray birch; grey birch; American gray birch; Betula populifolia.
  

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• noun large deciduous shade tree of southern United States with small deep purple berries
  Celtis occidentalis.
  

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• noun any of several small greyish New World mice inhabiting e.g. grain fields
  harvest mouse.
  

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• noun nut-bearing shrub of eastern North America
  Corylus americana.
  

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• noun North American plant having large leaves and yellowish green flowers growing in racemes; yields a toxic alkaloid used medicinally
  white hellebore; Indian poke; Veratrum viride; bugbane.
  

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• noun an evergreen tree
  Christmas holly.
  

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• noun native American plant sometimes confused with the European hop
  Humulus americanus.
  

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• noun tree or large shrub with grey bark and blue-green leaves that turn red-orange in autumn
  Carpinus caroliniana.
  

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• noun a member of the race of people living in America when Europeans arrived
  Indian; Red Indian.
  
• noun any of the languages spoken by Amerindians
  Indian; American Indian; Amerindian language; Amerind.
  

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• noun US: the 4th Friday in September
  

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• noun common North American vine with compound leaves and bluish-black berrylike fruit
  Parthenocissus quinquefolia; woodbine; Virginia creeper.
  

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• . See Virginia creeper.

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• noun small North American falcon
  sparrow hawk; kestrel; Falco sparverius.
  

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• noun a former political party in the United States; formed in 1936 in New York when labor and liberals bolted the Democratic Party
  

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• noun brightly spotted crab of sandy beaches of the Atlantic coast of the United States
  lady crab; Ovalipes ocellatus; calico crab.
  

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• noun the English language as used in the United States
  American; American English.
  

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• noun medium-sized larch of Canada and northern United States including Alaska having a broad conic crown and rust-brown scaly bark
  Larix laricina; black larch; tamarack.
  

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• noun a North American evergreen shrub having glossy leaves and white or rose-colored flowers
  Kalmia latifolia; mountain laurel; wood laurel; calico bush.
  

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• noun the largest organization of United States war veterans
  

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• noun a form of leishmaniasis endemic in Mexico and Central American and South America; sores are limited to the skin and mucosa
  nasopharyngeal leishmaniasis; mucocutaneous leishmaniasis; leishmaniasis americana; New World leishmaniasis.
  

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• noun North American plant similar to true licorice and having a root with similar properties
  American licorice; wild liquorice; Glycyrrhiza lepidota; wild licorice.
  

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• noun large American shade tree with large dark green leaves and rounded crown
  American basswood; Tilia americana.
  

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• noun North American plant similar to true licorice and having a root with similar properties
  American licorice; wild liquorice; Glycyrrhiza lepidota; wild licorice.
  

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• noun flesh of cold-water lobsters having large tender claws; caught from Maine to the Carolinas
  Northern lobster; Maine lobster.
  
• noun lobster of Atlantic coast of America
  Homarus americanus; Northern lobster; Maine lobster.
  

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• noun water lily of eastern North America having pale yellow blossoms and edible globular nutlike seeds
  water chinquapin; yanquapin; Nelumbo lutea.
  

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• noun a magpie of Rocky Mountains in North America
  Pica pica hudsonia.
  

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• noun hardy palmately branched North American fern with divergent recurved branches borne on lustrous dark reddish stipes
  five-fingered maidenhair fern; Adiantum pedatum.
  

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• noun valued for its fur
  Martes americana; American marten.
  

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• noun mastodon of North America; in some classifications considered a mammoth rather than a mastodon
  American mastodon; Mammut americanum.
  

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• noun mastodon of North America; in some classifications considered a mammoth rather than a mastodon
  American mastodon; Mammut americanum.
  

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• noun common North American diving duck considered a variety of the European goosander
  Mergus merganser americanus.
  

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• noun usually rich dark brown
  Mustela vison.
  

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• noun the traditional mistletoe of Christmas in America: grows on deciduous trees and can severely weaken the host plant
  Phoradendron flavescens; Phoradendron serotinum.
  
• noun small herb with scalelike leaves on reddish-brown stems and berrylike fruits; parasitic on spruce and larch trees
  Arceuthobium pusillum.
  

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• noun a variety of mountain ash
  Sorbus americana.
  

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• noun palm of Central and South America
  Elaeis oleifera.
  

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• noun small tree of southern United States having panicles of dull white flowers followed by dark purple fruits
  devilwood; Osmanthus americanus.
  

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• noun a free-reed instrument in which air is drawn in through reeds by suction bellows
  

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• noun American songbird; male is black and orange or yellow
  oriole; New World oriole.
  

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• noun an agaric with a pallid cap and a stalk that is enlarged near the base
  Lepiota americana.
  

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• noun rock-inhabiting fern of northern North America growing in massive tufts and having fronds resembling parsley
  Cryptogramma acrostichoides; American parsley fern.
  

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• noun a former political party in the United States; active in the 1850s to keep power out of the hands of immigrants and Roman Catholics
  Know-Nothing Party.
  

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• (U. S. Politics), a party, about 1854, which opposed the influence of foreign-born citizens, and those supposed to owe allegiance to a foreign power.

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• noun short hairy perennial with early spring blue-violet or lilac flowers; North America and Siberia
  wild crocus; Eastern pasque flower; blue tulip; Pulsatilla patens; American pasqueflower; prairie anemone; Anemone ludoviciana; lion's beard.
  

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• noun erect hairy branching American herb having purple-blue flowers; yields an essential oil used as an insect repellent and sometimes in folk medicine
  pennyroyal; Hedeoma pulegioides.
  

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• noun medium-sized tree of dry woodlands in the southern and eastern United States bearing yellow or orange very astringent fruit that is edible when fully ripe
  possumwood; Diospyros virginiana.
  

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• noun American breed of muscular terriers with a short close-lying stiff coat
  American pit bull terrier; pit bull terrier; Staffordshire terrier.
  

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• noun large American food fish
  Hippoglossoides platessoides.
  

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• noun a hotel plan that includes three meals daily
  

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• noun very large spreading plane tree of eastern and central North America to Mexico
  buttonwood; Platanus occidentalis; American plane.
  

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• noun short hairy perennial with early spring blue-violet or lilac flowers; North America and Siberia
  wild crocus; Eastern pasque flower; blue tulip; Pulsatilla patens; American pasqueflower; prairie anemone; Anemone ludoviciana; lion's beard.
  

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• noun slender aspen native to North America
  American aspen; Populus tremuloides.
  

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• noun red raspberry of North America
  Rubus strigosus; Rubus idaeus strigosus.
  

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• noun tropical American annual herb having an inflated pod in which the ripe seeds rattle
  Crotalaria sagitallis.
  

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• noun common North American shrub or small tree
  Sambucus pubens; red-berried elder; stinking elder.
  

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• noun wild plum trees of eastern and central North America having red-orange fruit with yellow flesh
  goose plum; Prunus americana; August plum.
  

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• noun of northern United States and Canada
  Tamiasciurus hudsonicus; Sciurus hudsonicus; spruce squirrel; red squirrel.
  

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• noun flycatching warbler of eastern North America the male having bright orange on sides and wings and tail
  redstart; Setophaga ruticilla.
  

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• noun a revised version of the King James Version
  American Revised Version.
  

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• noun the revolution of the American Colonies against Great Britain; 1775-1783
  American Revolution; American War of Independence; American Revolutionary War.
  

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• noun a nationalist leader in the American Revolution and in the creation of the United States
  

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• noun the revolution of the American Colonies against Great Britain; 1775-1783
  American Revolution; American War of Independence; American Revolutionary War.
  

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• noun large American thrush having a rust-red breast and abdomen
  robin; Turdus migratorius.
  

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• noun rock-inhabiting fern of northern North America growing in massive tufts and having fronds resembling parsley
  Cryptogramma acrostichoides; American parsley fern.
  

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• noun valued for its fur
  Martes americana; American marten.
  

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• noun a high-stepping horse originating in Kentucky
  

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• noun a United States territory on the eastern part of the island of Samoa
  AS; Eastern Samoa.
  

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• noun greyish-black shrew mole of the United States and Canada
  Neurotrichus gibbsii.
  

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• noun the sign language used in the United States
  ASL.
  

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• noun common smelt of eastern North America and Alaska
  rainbow smelt.
  

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• noun shrubby tree of southern United States having large plumes of feathery flowers resembling puffs of smoke
  Cotinus americanus; chittamwood; Cotinus obovatus.
  

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• noun found along the Atlantic coast of the Americas
  Mustelus canis.
  

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• noun deciduous shrub of the eastern United States having highly aromatic leaves and bark and yellow flowers followed by scarlet or yellow berries
  spicebush; spice bush; Lindera benzoin; Benjamin bush; Benzoin odoriferum.
  

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• noun unarmed woody rhizomatous perennial plant distinguished from wild sarsaparilla by more aromatic roots and panicled umbels; southeastern North America to Mexico
  life-of-man; Aralia racemosa; petty morel.
  

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• noun American breed of muscular terriers with a short close-lying stiff coat
  American pit bull terrier; pit bull terrier; Staffordshire terrier.
  

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• noun (computer science) a code for information exchange between computers made by different companies; a string of 7 binary digits represents each character; used in most microcomputers
  ASCII.
  

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• noun a revised version of the King James Version
  American Revised Version.
  

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• noun perennial star grass of North America
  Hypoxis hirsuta.
  

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• noun one of the 50 states of the United States
  

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• noun a stock exchange in New York
  AMEX; Curb.
  

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• noun large tree found from Maine to Alabama
  American chestnut; Castanea dentata.
  

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• noun a North American tree of the genus Liquidambar having prickly spherical fruit clusters and fragrant sap
  sweet gum; Liquidambar styraciflua; red gum; sweet gum tree; bilsted.
  

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• noun very large spreading plane tree of eastern and central North America to Mexico
  buttonwood; Platanus occidentalis; American plane.
  

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• noun common toad of America
  Bufo americanus.
  

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• noun small slow-growing deciduous shrubby tree of dry sandy barrens of southeastern United States having leaves with bristle-tipped lobes resembling turkey's toes
  turkey oak; Quercus laevis.
  

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• noun similar to the twinflower of northern Europe and Asia
  Linnaea borealis americana.
  

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• noun more than 130 southeastern Virgin Islands; a dependent territory of the United States
  United States Virgin Islands; VI.
  

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• noun chiefly lithophytic or epiphytic fern of North America and east Asia
  rock polypody; rock brake; Polypodium virgianum.
  

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• noun the revolution of the American Colonies against Great Britain; 1775-1783
  American Revolution; American War of Independence; American Revolutionary War.
  

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• noun a water ouzel of western North America
  Cinclus mexicanus.
  

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• noun water shrew of North America
  Sorex palustris.
  

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• noun breed of medium-sized spaniels originating in America having chocolate or liver-colored curly coat
  

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• noun mat-forming perennial found in cold springs of the eastern United States
  Cardamine rotundifolia; mountain watercress.
  
• noun of southwestern Europe; cultivated in Florida
  Barbarea verna; early winter cress; American cress; Belle Isle cress; Barbarea praecox; land cress.
  

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• noun small American birch with peeling white bark often worked into e.g. baskets or toy canoes
  Betula papyrifera; canoe birch; Betula cordifolia; paperbark birch; paper birch.
  

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• noun large slow-growing deciduous tree of the eastern United States having stout spreading branches and leaves with usually 7 rounded lobes; yields strong and durable hard wood
  Quercus alba.
  

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• noun tall-growing pine of eastern North America; bark is brown with longitudinal fissures when mature; valued as a timber tree
  weymouth pine; eastern white pine; Pinus strobus.
  

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• noun a widgeon the male of which has a white crown
  Anas americana; baldpate.
  

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• noun an eastern United States native resembling the cultivated Japanese wisteria having pale purple-lilac flowers
  Wisteria frutescens; American wistaria.
  

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• noun an eastern United States native resembling the cultivated Japanese wisteria having pale purple-lilac flowers
  Wisteria frutescens; American wistaria.
  

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• noun small long-billed woodcock; prized as a game bird
  woodcock snipe; Philohela minor.
  

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• noun rank-smelling tropical American pigweed
  Spanish tea; Chenopodium ambrosioides; wormseed; Mexican tea.
  

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• noun any of the languages spoken by Amerindians
  Indian; American Indian; Amerindian language; Amerind.
  

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• noun an American who was born in Britain or one whose ancestors were British
  

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• noun a person who is opposed to the United States and its policies
  
• adjective opposed to the United States and its policies
  

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An`ti-A*mer"i*can adjective

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1. Opposed to the Americans, their aims, or interests, or to the genius of American institutions. Marshall.

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• noun an American who is of Asian descent
  

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• noun an American whose ancestors were born in Africa
  Afro-American; African American; African-American.
  

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• noun a native or inhabitant of Central America
  
• adjective of or relating to or characteristic of Central America or its people or languages
  

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• noun any one of the countries occupying Central America; these countries (except for Belize and Costa Rica) are characterized by low per capita income and unstable governments
  Central American country.
  

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• noun any one of the countries occupying Central America; these countries (except for Belize and Costa Rica) are characterized by low per capita income and unstable governments
  Central American country.
  

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• noun fern with shorter and narrower leaves than Florida strap fern; Florida to West Indies and Mexico and south to Argentina
  Campyloneurum augustifolium; narrow-leaved strap fern.
  

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• noun shad of Atlantic coast of North America; naturalized to Pacific coast
  Alosa sapidissima.
  

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• noun an American who was born in France or whose ancestors were French
  

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• noun an American who was born in Germany or whose ancestors were German
  

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• adjective of or relating to or characteristic of German Americans
  

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• noun an American whose first language is Spanish
  Hispanic; Hispanic American.
  

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• noun a native of Latin America
  Latino.
  

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• adjective of or relating to the countries of Latin America or their people
  
  • Latin-American countries
  • Latin-American music

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• noun a Mexican (or person of Mexican descent) living in the United States
  Mexicano.
  

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• noun a hotel plan that includes breakfast and dinner (but not lunch)
  

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• noun any member of the peoples living in North or South America before the Europeans arrived
  Amerindian.
  
• adjective of or pertaining to American Indians or their culture or languages
  Indian; Amerind; Amerindic.
  
  • Native American religions
  • Indian arrowheads

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• (U. S. Politics), a party of principles similar to those of the American party. It arose about 1843, but soon died out.

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• noun a native or inhabitant of North America
  
• adjective of or pertaining to or characteristic of the continent or countries of North America or their peoples
  

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• noun any country on the North American continent
  North American country.
  

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• noun an agreement for free trade between the United States and Canada and Mexico; became effective in 1994 for ten years
  NAFTA.
  

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• noun any country on the North American continent
  North American country.
  

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• noun an association including most countries in the western hemisphere; created in 1948 to promote military and economic and social and cultural cooperation
  OAS.
  

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• noun a member of the Paleo-American peoples who were the earliest human inhabitants of North America and South America during the late Pleistocene epoch
  Paleo-Indian; Paleo-Amerind.
  

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• noun the prehistoric culture of the earliest human inhabitants of North America and South America
  Paleo-Indian culture; Paleo-Amerind culture.
  

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• noun a day celebrating political and economic unity among American countries
  April 14.
  

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• noun the administrative agency of the Organization of American States
  

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Pan`-A*mer"i*can adjective

Etymology

Definitions

1. Of or pertaining to both North and South America.

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• adjective supporting the United States and its policies
  

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• noun a native or inhabitant of South America
  
• adjective of or pertaining to or characteristic of the continent or countries of South America or their peoples
  

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• noun large toothed frog of South America and Central America resembling the bullfrog
  crapaud; Leptodactylus pentadactylus.
  

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• noun any one of the countries occupying the South American continent
  South American country.
  

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• noun a member of a native Indian group in South America
  

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• noun any one of the countries occupying the South American continent
  South American country.
  

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• noun a South American toad
  

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• noun of the southern coast of South America
  Otaria Byronia.
  

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• noun fern of Peru and Bolivia
  Platycerium andinum.
  

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• noun an American whose first language is Spanish
  Hispanic; Hispanic American.
  

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• noun a war between the United States and Spain in 1898
  Spanish War.
  

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• adjective satellite considered contrary to the best interests of the United States
  

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• noun the revolution of the American Colonies against Great Britain; 1775-1783
  American Revolution; American War of Independence; American Revolutionary War.
  

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