colorado : Idioms & Phrases

noun the state capital and largest city of Colorado; located in central Colorado on the South Platte river
Mile-High City; Denver.

noun black-and-yellow beetle that feeds in adult and larval stages on potato leaves; originally of eastern Rocky Mountains; now worldwide
potato bug; potato beetle; Leptinotarsa decemlineata; Colorado beetle.

(Zoöl.) A yellowish beetle (Doryphora decemlineata), with ten longitudinal, black, dorsal stripes. It has migrated eastwards from its original habitat in Colorado, and is very destructive to the potato plant; -- called also potato beetle and potato bug. See Potato beetle.

noun tall spruce with blue-green needles and dense conic crown; older trees become columnar with lower branches sweeping downward
Colorado blue spruce; Picea pungens; silver spruce.

noun medium to tall fir of central to western United States having a narrow erect crown and soft wood
white fir; Abies concolor; Abies lowiana; California white fir.

noun wildflower having vibrant deep pink tubular evening-blooming flowers; found in sandy and desert areas from southern California to southern Colorado and into Mexico
maravilla; desert four o'clock; Mirabilis multiflora.

(Geol.) A subdivision of the cretaceous formation of western North America, especially developed in Colorado and the upper Missouri region.

noun a large plateau to the south and west of the Rocky Mountains; abuts mountains on the north and east and ends in an escarpment overlooking lowlands to the south and west; the Grand Canyon is carved out of the southwestern corner

noun black-and-yellow beetle that feeds in adult and larval stages on potato leaves; originally of eastern Rocky Mountains; now worldwide
potato bug; potato beetle; Leptinotarsa decemlineata; Colorado beetle.

noun a river in Texas; flows southeast into the Gulf of Mexico
Colorado.
noun an important river in the southwestern United States; rises in the Rocky Mountains of northern Colorado and flows southwest through Utah into Arizona (where it flows through the Grand Canyon) and then southward through the southern tip of Nevada, then forming the border between California and Arizona and finally into Mexico where it empties into the Gulf of California; the main source of water in the southwestern United States
Colorado.

noun tall-growing annual of southwestern United States widely grown as green manure; yields a strong tough bast fiber formerly used by Indians for cordage
Sesbania exaltata.

noun a city in east central Colorado on the eastern edge of the Rocky Mountains; popular tourist center and site of the United States Air Force Academy

noun tall spruce with blue-green needles and dense conic crown; older trees become columnar with lower branches sweeping downward
Colorado blue spruce; Picea pungens; silver spruce.