caper : Idioms & Phrases

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bay-leaved caper

  • noun shrub or small tree of southern Florida to Central and South America
    Capparis flexuosa; bay-leaved caper.
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Bean caper

  • noun perennial shrub of the eastern Mediterranean region and southwestern Asia having flowers whose buds are used as capers
    bean caper; Zygophyllum fabago.
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  • . See Bran caper, in the Vocabulary.
Webster 1913

bean-caper family

  • noun small trees, shrubs, and herbs of warm arid and saline regions; often resinous; some poisonous: genera Zygophyllum, Tribulus, Guaiacum, Larrea
    family Zygophyllaceae; Zygophyllaceae.
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caper bush

Ca"per bush`, Ca"per tree` (Also<
  • Caper bush
  • Caper tree
)
Definitions
  1. See Capper, a plant, 2.
Webster 1913

caper family

  • noun a dilleniid dicot family of the order Rhoeadales that includes: genera Capparis, Cleome, Crateva, and Polanisia
    family Capparidaceae; Capparidaceae.
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Caper sauce

  • noun allemande sauce with capers
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  • a kind of sauce or catchup made of capers.
Webster 1913

caper spurge

  • noun poisonous Old World spurge; adventive in America; seeds yield a purgative oil
    Euphorbia lathyris; mole plant; myrtle spurge.
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caper tree

  • noun shrub or small tree of southern Florida to Central and South America
    Capparis flexuosa; bay-leaved caper.
  • noun shrub of southern Florida to West Indies
    caper tree; Capparis cynophallophora.
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Ca"per bush`, Ca"per tree` (Also<
  • Caper bush
  • Caper tree
)
Definitions
  1. See Capper, a plant, 2.
Webster 1913

colaptes caper collaris

  • noun western United States bird with red undersurface to wings and tail
    red-shafted flicker.
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common caper

  • noun prostrate spiny shrub of the Mediterranean region cultivated for its greenish flower buds which are pickled
    Capparis spinosa.
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jamaica caper tree

  • noun shrub of southern Florida to West Indies
    caper tree; Capparis cynophallophora.
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syrian bean caper

  • noun perennial shrub of the eastern Mediterranean region and southwestern Asia having flowers whose buds are used as capers
    bean caper; Zygophyllum fabago.
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To cut a caper

  • to frolic; to make a sportive spring; to play a prank.
Webster 1913