bastard : Idioms & Phrases

• (Arch.), stones for ashlar work, roughly squared at the quarry.

Webster 1913

• noun tropical American annual weed with small radiate heads of white flowers; adventive in southern United States
  Parthenium hysterophorus.
  

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• a file intermediate between the coarsest and the second cut.

Webster 1913

• noun East Indian shrub
  Tephrosia purpurea.
  
• noun dense shrub of moist riverbanks and flood plains of the eastern United States having attractive fragrant foliage and dense racemes of dark purple flowers
  Amorpha fruticosa; false indigo.
  
• noun an erect to spreading hairy shrub of the Pacific coast of the United States having racemes of red to indigo flowers
  false indigo; Amorpha californica.
  

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• noun small evergreen tree of the southern United States and West Indies a source of lignum vitae wood
  Guaiacum sanctum.
  

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• noun aromatic plant of the eastern United States
  Trichostema dichotomum.
  

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• noun weedy plant having short dry chafflike leaves
  chaffweed; false pimpernel.
  

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• noun grey sea turtle of the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts of North America
  Atlantic ridley; Lepidochelys kempii; bastard ridley.
  

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• noun a first page of some books displaying only the title of the book
  half title.
  

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• noun woody creeping parasite of western North America having numerous thick powdery leaves and panicles of small dull-white flowers
  Comandra pallida.
  

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• noun grey sea turtle of the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts of North America
  Atlantic ridley; Lepidochelys kempii; bastard ridley.
  

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• (Print.), type having the face of a larger or a smaller size than the body; e.g., a nonpareil face on a brevier body.

Webster 1913

• noun tuft of small stiff feathers on the first digit of a bird's wing
  alula; spurious wing.
  

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• (Zoöl.), three to five quill feathers on a small joint corresponding to the thumb in some mam malia; the alula.

Webster 1913

• noun medium-sized tree of South Africa
  common yellowwood; Afrocarpus falcata.
  

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