nova : Idioms & Phrases


aster novae-angliae

  • noun common perennial of eastern North America having showy purplish flowers; a parent of the Michaelmas daisy
    New England aster.
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himantopus novae-zelandiae

  • noun blackish stilt of New Zealand sometimes considered a color phase of the white-headed stilt
    kaki.
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nova lisboa

  • noun a city in the mountains in western Angola
    Huambo.
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nova lox

  • noun brine-cured salmon that is less salty than most; sometimes sugar is also used in the curing
    Nova salmon; Nova Scotia lox; Nova lox; Nova Scotia salmon.
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nova salmon

  • noun brine-cured salmon that is less salty than most; sometimes sugar is also used in the curing
    Nova salmon; Nova Scotia lox; Nova lox; Nova Scotia salmon.
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nova scotia

  • noun a peninsula in eastern Canada between the Bay of Fundy and the Saint Lawrence River
  • noun the Canadian province in the Maritimes consisting of the Nova Scotia peninsula and Cape Breton Island; French settlers who called the area Acadia were exiled to Louisiana by the British in the 1750s and their descendants are know as Cajuns
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nova scotia lox

  • noun brine-cured salmon that is less salty than most; sometimes sugar is also used in the curing
    Nova salmon; Nova Scotia lox; Nova lox; Nova Scotia salmon.
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nova scotia salmon

  • noun brine-cured salmon that is less salty than most; sometimes sugar is also used in the curing
    Nova salmon; Nova Scotia lox; Nova lox; Nova Scotia salmon.
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nova scotian

  • noun a native or inhabitant of Nova Scotia
    bluenose.
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nova style salmon

  • noun brine-cured salmon that is less salty than most; sometimes sugar is also used in the curing
    Nova salmon; Nova Scotia lox; Nova lox; Nova Scotia salmon.
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nova zembla

  • noun two islands in the Arctic Ocean belonging to Russia; site of a test center for nuclear warheads
    Novaya Zemlya.
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parathelypteris novae-boracensis

  • noun slender shield fern of moist woods of eastern North America; sometimes placed in genus Dryopteris
    New York fern; Dryopteris noveboracensis.
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