rainbow : Idioms & Phrases

• a fainter arch or rainbow, formed by the moon.

Webster 1913

• a similar bow seen in the spray of waves at sea.

Webster 1913

• noun a stout cylindrical cactus of the southwest United States and adjacent Mexico
  

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• noun small freshwater fish of South America and the West Indies; often kept in aquariums
  Lebistes reticulatus; guppy.
  

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• noun a kind of lorikeet
  Trichoglossus moluccanus.
  

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• noun Pacific coast fish
  Hipsurus caryi; rainbow perch.
  

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• noun Chinese pink with deeply toothed rose-lilac flowers with a purplish eye; usually raised as an annual
  china pink; Dianthus chinensis.
  

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• noun streamlined cigar-shaped jack; good game fish
  Elagatis bipinnulata.
  

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• noun Pacific coast fish
  Hipsurus caryi; rainbow perch.
  

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• noun deciduous ornamental hybrid of southeastern Asia and Hawaii having racemes of flowers ranging in color from cream-colored to orange and red
  Cassia javonica.
  

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• noun common smelt of eastern North America and Alaska
  American smelt.
  
• noun important marine and landlocked food fish of eastern North America and Alaska
  Osmerus mordax.
  

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• noun flesh of Pacific trout that migrate from salt to fresh water
  
• noun found in Pacific coastal waters and streams from lower California to Alaska
  Salmo gairdneri.
  

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• (Zoöl.), a bright-colored trout (Salmoirideus), native of the mountains of California, but now extensively introduced into the Eastern States. Japan, and other countries; called also brook trout, mountain trout, and golden trout.

Webster 1913

• . (Zoöl.) See under Wrasse.

Webster 1913

• a smaller bow, usually of red and green colors only, sometimes seen within the primary or without the secondary rainbow, and in contact with them.

Webster 1913