nod : Idioms & Phrases
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Line of nodes
- a straight line joining the two nodes of an orbit.
Webster 1913
nod off
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verb change from a waking to a sleeping state
drowse off; drift off; flake out; drop off; dope off; fall asleep; doze off.
- he always falls asleep during lectures
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nodding groundsel
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noun plant with erect leafy stems bearing clusters of rayless yellow flower heads on bent individual stalks; moist regions of southwestern United States
Senecio bigelovii.
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nodding onion
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noun widely distributed North American wild onion with white to rose flowers
nodding onion; lady's leek; Allium cernuum.
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nodding thistle
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noun Eurasian perennial naturalized in eastern North America having very spiny white cottony foliage and nodding musky crimson flower heads; valuable source of nectar
musk thistle; Carduus nutans.
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nodding wild onion
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noun widely distributed North American wild onion with white to rose flowers
nodding onion; lady's leek; Allium cernuum.
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nodes of ranvier
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noun small gaps in the myelin sheath of medullated axons
nodes of Ranvier.
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ranvier's nodes
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noun small gaps in the myelin sheath of medullated axons
nodes of Ranvier.
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The land of Nod
- sleep.