southern : Idioms & Phrases

• noun a more intense El Nino that occurs every few years when the welling up of cold nutrient-rich water does not occur; kills plankton and fish and affects weather patterns
  

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• noun deciduous shrub of eastern North America having blue-black berries and tough pliant wood formerly used to make arrows
  arrow wood; Viburnum dentatum.
  

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• noun a variety of aster
  

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• noun a member of the Southern Baptist Convention
  

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• noun an association of Southern Baptists
  

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• noun any of various beeches of the southern hemisphere having small usually evergreen leaves
  evergreen beech.
  

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• noun beech fern of North American woodlands having straw-colored stripes
  Phegopteris hexagonoptera; Thelypteris hexagonoptera; broad beech fern; Dryopteris hexagonoptera.
  

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• noun similar to blue flag; the eastern United States
  Iris virginica.
  

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• noun of low bogs and meadows of northeastern and central United States and southern Canada
  Synaptomys cooperi.
  

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• noun shrubby thorny deciduous tree of southeastern United States with white flowers and small black drupaceous fruit
  mock orange; Bumelia lycioides; shittim; shittimwood.
  

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• noun common North American form of cabbage butterfly
  Pieris protodice.
  

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• noun small tree or shrub of southeastern United States; cultivated as an ornamental for its rose-colored blossoms
  flowering crab; Malus angustifolia.
  

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• noun a small conspicuous constellation in the southern hemisphere in the Milky Way near Centaurus
  Crux; Crux Australis.
  

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• (Astron.), a constellation of the southern hemisphere containing several bright stars so related in position as to resemble a cross.

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• noun common cypress of southeastern United States having trunk expanded at base; found in coastal swamps and flooding river bottoms
  Taxodium distichum; swamp cypress; pond bald cypress; bald cypress.
  

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• noun of southern North America
  Rubus trivialis.
  

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• (Astron.), a constelation of the southern hemisphere (Piscis Australis) containing the bright star Fomalhaut.

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• noun flounder of southern United States
  Paralichthys lethostigmus.
  

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• noun small large-eyed nocturnal flying squirrel of eastern United States
  Glaucomys volans.
  

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• noun bellflower of southeastern United States (Maryland to Georgia) having pale blue flowers
  Campanula divaricata.
  

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• noun the hemisphere to the south of the equator
  

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• noun the aurora of the southern hemisphere
  aurora australis.
  

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• noun medium-sized evergreen native to eastern North America to the east coast of Mexico; often cultivated as shade tree for it wide-spreading crown; extremely hard tough durable wood once used in shipbuilding
  Quercus virginiana.
  

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• noun evergreen tree of southern United States having large stiff glossy leaves and huge white sweet-smelling flowers
  Magnolia grandiflora; bull bay; evergreen magnolia; large-flowering magnolia.
  

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• noun delicate maidenhair fern with slender shining black leaf stalks; cosmopolitan
  Venushair; Venus'-hair fern; Adiantum capillus-veneris; Venus maidenhair; common maidenhair.
  

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• noun porgy of southern Atlantic coastal waters of North America
  southern porgy; scup; Stenotomus aculeatus.
  

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• noun juniper of swampy coastal regions of southeastern United States; similar to eastern red cedar
  Juniperus silicicola.
  

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• noun large round-topped deciduous tree with spreading branches having narrow falcate leaves with deeply sinuate lobes and wood similar to that of northern red oaks; New Jersey to Illinois and southward
  turkey oak; swamp red oak; Quercus falcata.
  

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• noun a landlocked republic in south central Africa formerly called Rhodesia; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1980
  Zimbabwe; Republic of Zimbabwe; Rhodesia.
  

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• noun porgy of southern Atlantic coastal waters of North America
  southern porgy; scup; Stenotomus aculeatus.
  

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• noun this spadefoot toad lives in the southwestern United States
  Scaphiopus multiplicatus.
  

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• noun of flowing waters of the southeastern United States; may form obstructive mats in streams
  Nuphar sagittifolium.
  

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• (U.S. Hist. & Geog.), the States of the American Union lying south of Pennsylvania and the Ohio River, with Arkansas, Louisiana, and Texas. Before the Civil War, Missouri also, being a slave State, was classed as one of the Southern States.

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• noun a branch of the Tai languages
  

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• noun a small bright constellation in the polar region of the southern hemisphere near Circinus and Apus
  Triangulum Australe.
  

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• noun slow-growing medium-sized cedar of east coast of the United States; resembles American arborvitae
  Atlantic white cedar; white cypress; coast white cedar; Chamaecyparis thyoides; white cedar.
  

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• noun large three-needled pine of southeastern United States having very long needles and gnarled twisted limbs; bark is red-brown deeply ridged; an important timber tree
  Pinus palustris; Georgia pine; pitch pine; longleaf pine.
  

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