shield : Idioms & Phrases

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canadian shield

  • noun a large plateau that occupies more than 40% of the land area of Canada; it extends from the Great Lakes northward to the Arctic Ocean
    Laurentian Plateau; Laurentian Highlands.
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fragrant shield fern

  • noun fern or northern Eurasia and North America having fragrant fronds
    Dryopteris fragrans; fragrant wood fern; fragrant cliff fern.
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goldie's shield fern

  • noun North American fern with a blackish lustrous stipe
    goldie's wood fern; Dryopteris goldiana; Goldie's fern.
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heat shield

  • noun a protective covering that protects a spacecraft from overheating on reentry
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nipple shield

  • noun a rubber or plastic shield to protect the nipples of nursing women
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prickly shield fern

  • noun North American fern whose more or less evergreen leathery fronds are covered with pale brown chafflike scales
    Braun's holly fern; Polystichum braunii.
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Shield fern

  • noun any of various ferns of the genera Dryopteris or Polystichum or Lastreopsis having somewhat shield-shaped coverings on the sori
    buckler fern.
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  • (Bot.), any fern of the genus Aspidium, in which the fructifications are covered with shield-shaped indusia; called also wood fern. See Illust. of Indusium.
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shield of david

  • noun a six-pointed star formed from two equilateral triangles; an emblem symbolizing Judaism
    Star of David; Solomon's seal; Magen David; Mogen David.
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shield-bearer

Shield"-bear`er noun
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  1. One who, or that which, carries a shield.
  2. (Zoöl.) Any small moth of the genus Aspidisca, whose larva makes a shieldlike covering for itself out of bits of leaves.
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shield-shaped

  • adjective satellite (of a leaf shape) round, with the stem attached near the center of the lower surface rather than the margin (as a nasturtium leaf for example)
    peltate.
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soft shield fern

  • noun European shield fern cultivated in many varieties
    Polystichum setiferum.
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water shield

Wa"ter shield`
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  1. (Bot.) An aquatic American plant (Brasenia peltata) having floating oval leaves, and the covered with a clear jelly.
Webster 1913

water-shield

  • noun aquatic plant with floating oval leaves and purple flowers; in lakes and slow-moving streams; suitable for aquariums
    Brasenia schreberi; water-target.
  • noun common aquatic plant of eastern North America having floating and submerged leaves and white yellow-spotted flowers
    fanwort; Cabomba caroliniana.
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water-shield family

  • noun in some classifications considered an independent family of water lilies; comprises the genera Cabomba and Brasenia
    Cabombaceae; subfamily Cabombaceae.
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