rocky : Idioms & Phrases

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rocky marciano

  • noun United States prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship in 1952 (1924-1969)
    Marciano; Rocco Marciano.
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rocky mountain bee plant

  • noun plant of western North America having trifoliate leaves and white or pink spider-shaped flowers; sometimes used as an ornamental
    stinking clover; Cleome serrulata.
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rocky mountain bighorn

  • noun wild sheep of mountainous regions of western North America having massive curled horns
    bighorn; Ovis canadensis; cimarron; Rocky Mountain bighorn; bighorn sheep.
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rocky mountain bristlecone pine

  • noun small slow-growing upland pine of western United States (Rocky Mountains) having dense branches with fissured rust-brown bark and short needles in bunches of 5 and thorn-tipped cone scales; among the oldest living things some over 4500 years old
    Pinus aristata; bristlecone pine.
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rocky mountain dogbane

  • noun North American plant similar to common dogbane
    Apocynum pumilum.
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rocky mountain goat

  • noun sure-footed mammal of mountainous northwestern North America
    mountain goat; Oreamnos americanus.
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rocky mountain jay

  • noun a Canada jay with a white head; widely distributed from Montana to Arizona
    Perisoreus canadensis capitalis.
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Rocky Mountain locust

  • (Zoöl.), the Western locust, or grasshopper. See Grasshopper.
Webster 1913

rocky mountain national park

  • noun a national park in Colorado having mountains and lakes and streams and forests
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rocky mountain pinon

  • noun small compact two-needled pinon of southwestern United States; important as a nut pine
    Pinus edulis.
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Rocky Mountain sheep

  • noun wild sheep of mountainous regions of western North America having massive curled horns
    bighorn; Ovis canadensis; cimarron; Rocky Mountain bighorn; bighorn sheep.
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  • . (Zoöl.) See Bighorn.
  • .(Zoöl.) See Bighorn.
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rocky mountain spotted fever

  • noun caused by rickettsial bacteria and transmitted by wood ticks
    tick fever; mountain fever.
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rocky mountain whitefish

  • noun whitefish of the western United States and Canada
    Prosopium williamsonii.
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rocky mountains

  • noun the chief mountain range of western North America; extends from British Columbia to northern New Mexico; forms the continental divide
    Rockies.
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rocky mountains cherry

  • noun dwarf ornamental shrub of western United States having large black to red and yellow sweet edible fruit
    Western sand cherry; Prunus besseyi.
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rocky-mountain maple

  • noun small maple of northwestern North America
    dwarf maple; Acer glabrum.
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