sand : Idioms & Phrases

• noun a sand snake of southwestern United States; lives in fine to coarse sand or loamy soil in which it `swims'; banding resembles that of coral snakes
  Chilomeniscus cinctus.
  

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• noun prostrate herb having heads of deep pink to white flowers; found in coastal dunes from British Columbia to Baja California
  beach sand verbena; Abronia umbellata.
  

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• calcareous matter found in the pineal gland.

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• noun soft-haired sticky plant with heads of bright pink trumpet-shaped flowers; found in sandy desert soil; after ample rains may carpet miles of desert with pink from the southwestern United States to northern Mexico
  Abronia villosa.
  

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• (Anat.), otoliths. See Otolith.

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• a kind of sand suitable for purposes of molding.

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• noun French writer known for works concerning women's rights and independence (1804-1876)
  Sand; Amandine Aurore Lucie Dupin; Baroness Dudevant.
  

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• (Founding) molding sand used for a mold while slightly damp, and not dried before the cast is made.

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Has"tings sands"

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1. (Geol.) The lower group of the Wealden formation; -- so called from its development around Hastings, in Sussex, England.

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• an iron ore in grains, usually the magnetic iron ore, formerly used to sand paper after writing.

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• (Founding), a kind of sand containing clay, used in making molds.

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• (Founding), dry, nonadhesive sand, sprinkled upon the partings of a mold to facilitate the separation.

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• noun prostrate herb having heads of deep pink to white flowers; found in coastal dunes from British Columbia to Baja California
  beach sand verbena; Abronia umbellata.
  

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• something of no cohession or fiber; a feeble union or tie; something not to be relied upon.

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• verb sand roughly
  
  • rough-sand the door before painting it

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• noun southeast Asian badger with a snout like a pig
  hog-nosed badger; hog badger; Arctonyx collaris.
  

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• (Zoöl.), the Japanese badger (Meles ankuma).

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• (a) A bag filled with sand or earth, used for various purposes, as in fortification, for ballast, etc. (b) A long bag filled with sand, used as a club by assassins.

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• soap mixed with sand, made into a ball for use at the toilet.

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• noun a bar of sand
  sandbar.
  

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• . (a) (Chem.) A vessel of hot sand in a laboratory, in which vessels that are to be heated are partially immersed . (b) A bath in which the body is immersed in hot sand.

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• a thick layer of sand, whether deposited naturally or artificially; specifically, a thick layer of sand into which molten metal is run in casting, or from a reducing furnace.

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• noun evergreen mat-forming shrub of North America and northern Eurasia having small white flowers and red berries; leaves turn red in autumn
  mountain box; creashak; common bearberry; wild cranberry; mealberry; bear's grape; sandberry; hog cranberry; Arctostaphylos uva-ursi; red bearberry.
  

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• (Zoöl.), a collective name for numerous species of limicoline birds, such as the sandpipers, plovers, tattlers, and many others; called also shore birds.

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• noun stiff shrubby blackberry of the eastern United States (Connecticut to Florida)
  Rubus cuneifolius.
  

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• a process of engraving and cutting glass and other hard substances by driving sand against them by a steam jet or otherwise; also, the apparatus used in the process.

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• . (a) A box with a perforated top or cover, for sprinkling paper with sand . (b) A box carried on locomotives, from which sand runs on the rails in front of the driving wheel, to prevent slipping.

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• (Zoöl.), an American anomuran crustacean (Hippa talpoidea) which burrows in sandy seabeaches. It is often used as bait by fishermen. See Illust. under Anomura.

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• (Zoöl.), a tubular vessel having a calcareous coating, and connecting the oral ambulacral ring with the madreporic tubercle. It appears to be excretory in function.

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• verb pour molten metal into a mold of sand
  

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• noun a desert wildcat
  

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• noun small straggling American cherry growing on sandy soil and having minute scarcely edible purplish-black fruit
  Prunus pumilla susquehanae; Prunus pumila; Prunus cuneata; Prunus susquehanae.
  

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• (Zoöl.), the redshank. Prov. Eng.

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• . (Zoöl.) Same as Sand saucer, below.

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• . (Zoöl.) (a) The lady crab . (b) A land crab, or ocypodian.

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• noun a fissure in the wall of a horse's hoof often causing lameness
  

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• (Far.), a crack extending downward from the coronet, in the wall of a horse's hoof, which often causes lameness.

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• noun large wingless nocturnal grasshopper that burrows in loose soil along the Pacific coast of the United States
  Stenopelmatus fuscus; Jerusalem cricket.
  

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• (Zoöl.), any one of several species of large terrestrial crickets of the genus Stenophelmatus and allied genera, native of the sandy plains of the Western United States.

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• (Zoöl.), any ophidiod fish. See Illust. under Ophidiod.

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• noun the lean flesh of a small flounder from the Pacific coast of North America
  
• noun small food fishes of the Pacific coast of North America
  

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• (Zoöl.), a small American flounder (Limanda ferruginea); called also rusty dab. The name is also applied locally to other allied species.

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• (Zoöl.), a small etheostomoid fish of the Ohio valley (Ammocrypta pellucida).

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• noun alternatively placed in genus Martynia
  Martynia arenaria; Proboscidea arenaria.
  

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• noun flattened disklike sea urchins that live on sandy bottoms
  

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• (Zoöl.), any one of several species of small flat circular sea urchins, which live on sandy bottoms, especially Echinarachnius parma of the American coast.

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• drifting sand; also, a mound or bank of drifted sand.

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• noun erect smooth grass of sandy places in eastern North America
  Sporobolus cryptandrus.
  

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• noun a ridge of sand created by the wind; found in deserts or near lakes and oceans
  dune.
  

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• noun very small silvery eellike schooling fishes that burrow into sandy beaches
  launce; sand lance; sand eel.
  

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• . (Zoöl.) (a) A lant, or launce . (b) A slender Pacific Ocean fish of the genus Gonorhynchus, having barbels about the mouth.

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• sandstone which splits up into flagstones.

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• noun small amphipod crustaceans that hop like fleas; common on ocean beaches
  sand flea; beach flea; sandhopper.
  

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• . (Zoöl.) (a) Any species of flea which inhabits, or breeds in, sandy places, especially the common dog flea . (b) the chigoe . (c) Any leaping amphipod crustacean; a beach flea, or orchestian. See Beach flea, under Beach.

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• a vast body of sand borne along by the wind. James Bruce.

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• . (Zoöl.) (a) The sandnecker . (b) The European smooth dab (Pleuronectes microcephalus); called also kitt, marysole, smear dab, town dab.

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• noun any of various small dipterous flies; bloodsucking females can transmit sandfly fever and leishmaniasis
  Phlebotomus papatasii; sandfly.
  

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• (Zoöl.), any one of several species of small dipterous flies of the genus Simulium, abounding on sandy shores, especially Simulium nocivum of the United States. They are very troublesome on account of their biting habits. Called also no-see-um, punky, and midge.

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• (Geol.) See Sand pipe, below.

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• (Bot.), any species of grass which grows in sand; especially, a tufted grass (Triplasis purpurea) with numerous bearded joints, and acid awl-shaped leaves, growing on the Atlantic coast.

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• noun pigeon-like bird of arid regions of the Old World having long pointed wings and tail and precocial downy young
  sandgrouse.
  

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• (Zoöl.), any one of many species of Old World birds belonging to the suborder Pterocletes, and resembling both grouse and pigeons. Called also rock grouse, rock pigeon, and ganga. They mostly belong to the genus Pterocles, as the common Indian species (P. exustus). The large sand grouse (P. arenarius), the painted sand grouse (P. fasciatus), and the pintail sand grouse (P. alchata) are also found in India. See Illust. under Pterocletes.

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• a hill of sand; a dune.

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• noun small amphipod crustaceans that hop like fleas; common on ocean beaches
  sand flea; beach flea; sandhopper.
  

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• (Zoöl.), a beach flea; an orchestian.

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• (Zoöl.), a sand wasp.

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• noun very small silvery eellike schooling fishes that burrow into sandy beaches
  launce; sand lance; sand eel.
  

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• . (Zoöl.) (a) A small lark (Alaudala raytal), native of India . (b) A small sandpiper, or plover, as the ringneck, the sanderling, and the common European sandpiper . (c) The Australian red-capped dotterel (Ægialophilus ruficapillus); called also red-necked plover.

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• noun very small silvery eellike schooling fishes that burrow into sandy beaches
  launce; sand lance; sand eel.
  

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• (Zoöl.), a lant, or launce.

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• noun European leek cultivated and used like leeks
  Spanish garlic; giant garlic; Allium scorodoprasum; rocambole.
  

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• noun a common and widely distributed lizard of Europe and central Asia
  Lacerta agilis.
  
• noun one of the most abundant lizards in the arid western United States
  side-blotched lizard; Uta stansburiana.
  

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• (Zoöl.), a common European lizard (Lacerta agilis).

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• noun swallow of the northern hemisphere that nests in tunnels dug in clay or sand banks
  bank swallow; Riparia riparia; bank martin.
  

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• (Zoöl.), the bank swallow.

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• (Zoöl.), the coast rat.

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• (Zoöl.), a large Egyptian lizard (Monitor arenarius) which inhabits dry localities.

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• (Zoöl.), the dunlin. Prov. Eng.

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• noun low-growing evergreen shrub of New Jersey to Florida grown for its many white star-shaped flowers and glossy foliage
  Leiophyllum buxifolium.
  

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• . (Bot.) See under Myrtle.

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• noun a painting done by Amerindians (especially Navaho); made of fine colored sands on a neutral background
  

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• (Zoöl.), either of two small Asiatic partridges of the genus Ammoperdix. The wings are long and the tarsus is spurless. One species (A. Heeji) inhabits Palestine and Arabia. The other species (A. Bonhami), inhabiting Central Asia, is called also seesee partridge, and teehoo.

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• noun low mat-forming herb of rocky places in United States
  chickweed phlox; Phlox bifida; Phlox stellaria.
  

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• a picture made by putting sand of different colors on an adhesive surface.

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• . (Zoöl.) (a) The sauger . (b) The lizard fish.

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• a sand storm which takes the form of a whirling pillar in its progress in desert tracts like those of the Sahara and Mongolia.

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• (Geol.), a tubular cavity, from a few inches to several feet in dept, occurring especially in calcareous rocks, and often filled with gravel, sand, etc.; called also sand gall.

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

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• in artesian well boring, a long, slender bucket with a valve at the bottom for raising sand from the well.

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• noun small nearly naked African mole rat of desert areas
  
• noun southern European gerbil
  Meriones longifrons.
  

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• (Zoöl.), the pocket gopher.

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• noun European maritime sedge naturalized along Atlantic coast of United States; rootstock has properties of sarsaparilla
  sand reed; Carex arenaria.
  

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• a rock made of cemented sand.

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• (Zoöl.), the turnstone.

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• noun silver-haired shrub of central and southern United States and Mexico; a troublesome weed on rangelands
  silvery wormwood; Artemisia filifolia.
  

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• (Zoöl.), the mass of egg capsules, or oöthecæ, of any mollusk of the genus Natica and allied genera. It has the shape of a bottomless saucer, and is coated with fine sand; called also sand collar.

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• (Zoöl.), an amphipod crustacean (Lepidactylis arenarius), which burrows in the sandy seabeaches of Europe and America.

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• noun European maritime sedge naturalized along Atlantic coast of United States; rootstock has properties of sarsaparilla
  sand reed; Carex arenaria.
  

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• noun shallow-water shark with sharp jagged teeth found on both sides of Atlantic; sometimes dangerous to swimmers
  Odontaspis taurus; sand shark; Carcharias taurus.
  

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• (Zoöl.), an American shark (Odontaspis littoralis) found on the sandy coasts of the Eastern United States; called also gray shark, and dogfish shark. See Illust. under Remora.

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• (Zoöl.), any one of several species of Old World lizards belonging to the genus Seps; as, the ocellated sand skink (Seps ocellatus) of Southern Europe.

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• (Zoöl.), a beach flea, or orchestian.

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• (Zoöl.), a silverside.

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• noun small North American burrowing snake
  

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• . (Zoöl.) (a) Any one of several species of harmless burrowing snakes of the genus Eryx, native of Southern Europe, Africa, and Asia, especially E. Jaculus of India and E. Johnii, used by snake charmers. (b) Any innocuous South African snake of the genus Psammophis, especially P. sibilans.

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• (Zoöl.), the sandpiper.

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• noun a common flatfish of the Pacific coast of North America
  Psettichthys melanostichus.
  

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• noun prostrate weedy herb with tiny pink flowers; widespread throughout Europe and Asia on sand dunes and heath and coastal cliffs; naturalized in eastern North America
  sea spurry; Spergularia rubra.
  

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• (Zoöl.), an ophiurioid starfish living on sandy sea bottoms; a brittle star.

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• noun small pallid fishes of shoal tropical waters of North America and South America having eyes on stalks atop head; they burrow in sand to await prey
  

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• a cloud of sand driven violently by the wind.

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• the sandnecker.

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• (Zoöl.), the bank swallow. See under Bank.

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• noun shallow-water shark with sharp jagged teeth found on both sides of Atlantic; sometimes dangerous to swimmers
  Odontaspis taurus; sand shark; Carcharias taurus.
  

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• noun a hazard on a golf course
  bunker; trap.
  

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• a tube made of sand. Especially: (a) A tube of vitrified sand, produced by a stroke of lightning; a fulgurite. (b) (Zoöl.) Any tube made of cemented sand. (c) (Zoöl.) In starfishes, a tube having calcareous particles in its wall, which connects the oral water tube with the madreporic plate.

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• noun a tumor derived from fibrous tissue of the meninges or choroid plexus or certain other structures associated with the brain; characterized by sandlike particles
  psammoma.
  

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• noun any of various plants of the genus Abronia of western North America and Mexico having flowers resembling verbena
  

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• noun highly venomous viper of northern Africa and southwestern Asia having a horny spine above each eye
  horned viper; cerastes; Cerastes cornutus; horned asp.
  
• noun harmless North American snake with upturned nose; may spread its head and neck or play dead when disturbed
  puff adder; hognose snake.
  

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• . (Zoöl.) See Hognose snake.

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• (Zoöl.), any one of numerous species of hymenopterous insects belonging to the families Pompilidæ and Spheridæ, which dig burrows in sand. The female provisions the nest with insects or spiders which she paralyzes by stinging, and which serve as food for her young.

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• noun a wedge used to get out of sand traps
  

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• adjective satellite having greatly reduced vision
  dim-sighted; visually impaired; purblind; visually challenged; near-blind.
  

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Sand"-blind" adjective

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1. Having defective sight; dim-sighted; purblind. Shak.

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• (Bot.), a tropical American tree (Hura crepitans). Its fruit is a depressed many-celled woody capsule which, when completely dry, bursts with a loud report and scatters the seeds. See Illust. of Regma.

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• (Zoöl.), the American brown crane (Grus Mexicana).

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• (Bot.), a kind of coarse grass (Ammophila arundinacea). See Beach grass, under Beach.

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• minute fragments of shells constituting a considerable part of the seabeach in some places.

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• noun taller than Abronia elliptica and having night-blooming flowers
  Abronia fragrans.
  
• noun plant having heads of fragrant white trumpet-shaped flowers; grows in sandy arid regions
  snowball; Abronia elliptica.
  

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• noun dwarf ornamental shrub of western United States having large black to red and yellow sweet edible fruit
  Prunus besseyi; Rocky Mountains cherry.
  

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• noun plant having hemispherical heads of yellow trumpet-shaped flowers; found in coastal dunes from California to British Columbia
  Abronia latifolia.
  

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