nod : Idioms & Phrases


Line of nodes

  • a straight line joining the two nodes of an orbit.
Webster 1913

nod off

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • noun small gaps in the myelin sheath of medullated axons
    nodes of Ranvier.
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ranvier's nodes

  • noun small gaps in the myelin sheath of medullated axons
    nodes of Ranvier.
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The land of Nod

  • sleep.
Webster 1913