americana : Idioms & Phrases

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agave americana

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

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

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

  • noun a North American vine with fragrant blossoms and edible tubers; important food crop of Native Americans
    wild bean; Indian potato; Apios tuberosa; groundnut; potato bean; groundnut vine.
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aythya americana

  • noun North American diving duck with a grey-and-black body and reddish-brown head
    redhead.
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brunfelsia americana

  • noun West Indian shrub with fragrant showy yellowish-white flowers
    lady-of-the-night.
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campanula americana

  • noun annual or perennial of eastern North America with long spikes of blue or white flowers
    tall bellflower.
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centaurea americana

  • noun annual of southwestern United States cultivated for its purple flower heads and its bracts that resemble small baskets
    basket flower.
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certhia americana

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

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

  • noun nut-bearing shrub of eastern North America
    American hazel.
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fagus americana

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

  • noun spreading American ash with leaves pale green or silvery beneath and having hard brownish wood
    white ash.
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fulica americana

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

  • noun tree of the West Indies and northern South America bearing succulent edible orange-sized fruit
    genipap fruit; marmalade box; jagua.
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grus americana

  • noun rare North American crane having black-and-white plumage and a trumpeting call
    whooping crane; whooper.
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heuchera americana

  • noun plant with basal leaves mottled with white and flowers in lax panicles on erect stems
    rock geranium.
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leishmaniasis americana

  • 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; American leishmaniasis; New World leishmaniasis.
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lepiota americana

  • noun an agaric with a pallid cap and a stalk that is enlarged near the base
    American parasol.
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linnaea borealis americana

  • noun similar to the twinflower of northern Europe and Asia
    American twinflower.
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malacosoma americana

  • noun moth whose larvae are tent caterpillars
    tent-caterpillar moth.
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mammea americana

  • noun tropical American tree having edible fruit with a leathery rind
    mamey; mammee; mammee tree; mammee apple.
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martes americana

  • noun valued for its fur
    American sable; American marten.
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morone americana

  • noun small silvery food and game fish of eastern United States streams
    white perch; silver perch.
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mycteria americana

  • noun an American stork that resembles the true ibises in having a downward-curved bill; inhabits wooded swamps of New World tropics
    wood stork; flinthead; wood ibis.
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parula americana

  • noun small grey-blue wood warbler with yellow throat and breast; of eastern North America
    parula warbler; northern parula.
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periplaneta americana

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

  • noun tropical American tree bearing large pulpy green fruits
    avocado; avocado tree.
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phytolacca americana

  • noun tall coarse perennial American herb having small white flowers followed by blackish-red berries on long drooping racemes; young fleshy stems are edible; berries and root are poisonous
    scoke; poke; garget; pigeon berry.
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pipa americana

  • noun a South American toad; incubates its young in pits in the skin of its back
    Surinam toad; Pipa pipa.
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prunus americana

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

  • noun evergreen of eastern North America with leathery leaves and numerous white flowers
    Pyrola americana; false wintergreen.
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pyrola rotundifolia americana

  • noun evergreen of eastern North America with leathery leaves and numerous white flowers
    Pyrola americana; false wintergreen.
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rhea americana

  • noun larger of two tall fast-running flightless birds similar to ostriches but three-toed; found from Brazil to Patagonia
    rhea.
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sorbus americana

  • noun a variety of mountain ash
    American mountain ash.
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tilia americana

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

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

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

  • noun a fungus composed of several apothecia that look like elongated rabbit ears; the sterile surface is dark brown and warty; the fertile surface is smooth and pinkish orange
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