nigra : Idioms & Phrases

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ballota nigra

  • noun ill-smelling European herb with rugose leaves and whorls of dark purple flowers
    black archangel; stinking horehound; black horehound; fetid horehound.
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betula nigra

  • noun birch of swamps and river bottoms throughout the eastern United States having reddish-brown bark
    river birch; red birch; black birch.
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brassica nigra

  • noun widespread Eurasian annual plant cultivated for its pungent seeds; a principal source of table mustard
    black mustard.
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centaurea nigra

  • noun a weedy perennial with tough wiry stems and purple flowers; native to Europe but widely naturalized
    hardheads; lesser knapweed; black knapweed.
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ciconia nigra

  • noun Old World stork that is glossy black above and white below
    black stork.
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dalbergia nigra

  • noun an important Brazilian timber tree yielding a heavy hard dark-colored wood streaked with black
    Brazilian rosewood; jacaranda; caviuna wood.
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fraxinus nigra

  • noun vigorous spreading North American tree having dark brown heavy wood; leaves turn gold in autumn
    brown ash; basket ash; hoop ash; black ash.
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juglans nigra

  • noun North American walnut tree with hard dark wood and edible nut
    black hickory; black walnut; black walnut tree.
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melanitta nigra

  • noun a variety of scoter
    common scoter.
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morus nigra

  • noun European mulberry having dark foliage and fruit
    black mulberry.
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phyllostachys nigra

  • noun small bamboo having thin green culms turning shining black
    kuri-chiku; black bamboo.
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pinus nigra

  • noun large two-needled timber pine of southeastern Europe
    black pine.
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populus nigra

  • noun large European poplar
    black poplar.
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populus nigra italica

  • noun distinguished by its columnar fastigiate shape and erect branches
    Lombardy poplar.
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prunus nigra

  • noun small tree native to northeastern North America having oblong orange-red fruit
    Canada plum.
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quercus nigra

  • noun relatively tall deciduous water oak of southeastern United States often cultivated as a shade tree; thrives in wet soil
    water oak; possum oak.
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salix nigra

  • noun North American shrubby willow having dark bark and linear leaves growing close to streams and lakes
    swamp willow; black willow.
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sambucus nigra

  • noun a common shrub with black fruit or a small tree of Europe and Asia; fruit used for wines and jellies
    black elder; bourtree; elderberry; common elder; European elder.
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substantia nigra

  • noun a layer of deeply pigmented grey matter in the midbrain; associated with the striate body; is involved in metabolic disturbances associated with Parkinson's disease and with Huntington's disease
    nucleus niger; locus niger.
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