easter : Idioms & Phrases

• noun a native or resident of Maine
  Mainer.
  

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• noun a rabbit that delivers Easter eggs
  

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• noun spring-blooming South American cactus with oblong joints and coral-red flowers; sometimes placed in genus Schlumbergera
  Schlumbergera gaertneri; Hatiora gaertneri.
  

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• noun a card expressing an Easter greeting
  

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• noun dwarf tufted nearly stemless herb having a rosette of woolly leaves and large white-rayed flower heads and bristly achenes; central Canada and United States west to Arizona
  Townsendia Exscapa; stemless daisy.
  

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• noun the day (in March or April) on which the festival of Easter is celebrated
  Easter Day.
  

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• (Ch. of Eng.), money due to the clergy at Easter, formerly paid in communication of the tithe for personal labor and subject to exaction. For Easter dues, Easter offerings, voluntary gifts, have been substituted.

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• noun an egg-shaped candy used to celebrate Easter
  
• noun a colored hard-boiled egg used to celebrate Easter
  

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• . (a) A painted or colored egg used as a present at Easter. (b) An imitation of an egg, in sugar or some fine material, sometimes made to serve as a box for jewelry or the like, used as an Easter present.

Webster 1913

• noun tall lily have large white trumpet-shaped flowers that bloom in the spring
  Lilium longiflorum; white trumpet lily; Bermuda lily.
  

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• noun evergreen woody twiner with large glossy leaves and showy corymbs of fragrant white trumpet-shaped flowers
  Beaumontia grandiflora; Nepal trumpet flower.
  

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• noun the day (in March or April) on which the festival of Easter is celebrated
  Easter Day.
  

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• (Zoöl.), one of numerous species of small passerine birds of the family Meliphagidæ, abundant in Australia and Oceania; called also honeysucker.

Webster 1913