pride : Idioms & Phrases

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barbados pride

  • noun East Indian tree with racemes of yellow-white flowers; cultivated as an ornamental
    coralwood; Adenanthera pavonina; red sandalwood; coral-wood; peacock flower fence.
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civic pride

  • noun pride in your city
    civic spirit.
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London pride

  • . (Bot.) (a) A garden name for Saxifraga umbrosa, a hardy perennial herbaceous plant, a native of high lands in Great Britain . (b) A name anciently given to the Sweet William. Dr. Prior.
Webster 1913

mountain pride

  • noun mat-forming plant with deep pink flowers on short erect leafy stems; rocky places at high elevations from Oregon to California
    Penstemon newberryi.
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Mountain pride, ∨ Mountain green

  • (Bot.), a tree of Jamaica (Spathelia simplex), which has an unbranched palmlike stem, and a terminal cluster of large, pinnate leaves.
Webster 1913

pride of barbados

  • noun tropical shrub or small tree having showy yellow to orange-red flowers; sometimes placed in genus Poinciana
    paradise flower; Poinciana pulcherrima; flamboyant tree; Caesalpinia pulcherrima.
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pride of bolivia

  • noun semi-evergreen South American tree with odd-pinnate leaves and golden yellow flowers cultivated as an ornamental
    yellow jacaranda; tipu; tipu tree.
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pride of california

  • noun shrubby California perennial having large pink or violet flowers; cultivated as an ornamental
    Lathyrus splendens.
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Pride of India, ∨ Pride of China

  • . (Bot.) See Margosa.
Webster 1913

pride of place

  • noun the first or highest or most important or most ostentatious place
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Pride of the desert

  • (Zoöl.), the camel.
Webster 1913

pride oneself

  • verb feel proud of
    pride oneself.
    • She took great pride in her sons
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pride-of-india

  • noun tree of northern India and China having purple blossoms and small inedible yellow fruits; naturalized in the southern United States as a shade tree
    azedarach; azederach; China tree; Melia azederach; chinaberry tree; chinaberry; Melia azedarach; Persian lilac.
  • noun native to Asia, Australia, and East Indies, where it provides timber called pyinma; used elsewhere as an ornamental for its large showy flowers
    Queen's crape myrtle; Lagerstroemia speciosa.
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Purse pride

  • pride of money; insolence proceeding from the possession of wealth. Bp. Hall.
Webster 1913

Sand pride

  • (Zoöl.), a small british lamprey now considered to be the young of larger species; called also sand prey.
Webster 1913

self-pride

  • noun a feeling of pride in yourself
    self-esteem.
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take pride

  • verb feel proud of
    pride oneself.
    • She took great pride in her sons
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Venus's pride

  • (Bot.), an old name for Quaker ladies. See under Quaker.
Webster 1913