English words for 'Alternative form of rockfish.'
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noun
- North Atlantic rockfish
- Any of genus Sebastes, or edible red rockfishs.
- male salmon that has recently spawned
- large edible fish found off coast of United States from Massachusetts to Mexico
- especially Sebastes norvegicus, found in North American waters, also called rosefish or ocean perch.
- A large red edible fish, Sciaenops ocellatus, also called channel bass or red drum.
- Etelis oculatus, queen snapper.
- Rhomboplites aurorubens, vermillion snapper.
- Centroberyx affinis, eastern nannygai.
- A slimehead, of family Trachichthyidae.
- Lutjanus spp., snappers.
- Oncorhynchus nerka, sockeye salmon.
noun
- A gopher rockfish (Sebastes carnatus).
- (programming) A Golang programmer.
- A gopher tortoise (Gopherus spp.).
- A ground squirrel (Marmotinae spp.).
- Alternative spelling of gofer.
- A small burrowing rodent native to North and Central America, especially in the family Geomyidae (pocket gophers).
- a zealously energetic person (especially a salesman)
- any of various terrestrial burrowing rodents of Old and New Worlds; often destroy crops
- burrowing edible land tortoise of southeastern North America
- burrowing rodent of the family Geomyidae having large external cheek pouches; of Central America and southwestern North America
noun
- Any of type of fish in the family Agonidae, also known as alligatorfish, starsnout, hooknose and rockhead.
- A vessel with shallow cuplike compartments in which eggs are cooked over boiling water
- (US, dialect) An American wigeon (Anas americana).
- (soccer) An attacker with good movement inside the penalty box, see Wikipedia:Goal poacher.
- A person who trespasses in order to take game illegally, one who poaches; a person who illegally takes animals or plants from the wild.
- a cooking vessel designed to poach food (such as fish or eggs)
- small slender fish (to 8 inches) with body covered by bony plates; chiefly of deeper northern Pacific waters
- someone who hunts or fishes illegally on the property of another
noun
- The huss or rock salmon.
- (countable) Distaff.
- (CB radio slang) A crystal used to control the radio frequency.
- (uncountable) The naturally occurring aggregate of solid mineral matter that constitutes a significant part of the earth's crust.
- The striped bass.
- (US, slang) A crystallized lump of crack cocaine.
- (rock paper scissors) A closed hand (a handshape resembling a rock), that beats scissors and loses to paper. It beats lizard and loses to Spock in rock-paper-scissors-lizard-Spock.
- (uncountable) The flax or wool on a distaff.
- (informal, cricket) A cricket ball, especially a new one that has not been softened by use
- A large hill or island having no vegetation.
- (chiefly UK, Ireland) A boulder or large stone; or (US, Canada) a smaller stone; a pebble.
- An act of rocking; a rocking motion; a sway.
- (British, uncountable) A type of confectionery made from sugar in the shape of a stick, traditionally having some text running through its length.
- A mass of stone projecting out of the ground or water.
- A lump or cube of ice.
- (colloquial) A precious stone or gem, especially a diamond.
- (US, basketball, slang) A basketball.
- (South Africa, slang, derogatory) An Afrikaner.
- (figuratively) Something that is strong, stable, and dependable; a person who provides security or support to another.
- (US, baseball, slang) A mistake.
- (curling) Synonym of stone.
- (geology) Any natural material with a distinctive composition of minerals.
- (US, slang) An unintelligent person, especially one who repeats mistakes.
- (music) A style of music characterized by basic drum-beat, generally 4/4 riffs, based on (usually electric) guitar, bass guitar, drums, keyboards (often), and vocals.
- (US poker slang) An extremely conservative player who is willing to play only the very strongest hands.
- hard bright-colored stick candy (typically flavored with peppermint)
- (figurative) someone who is strong and stable and dependable
- a lump or mass of hard consolidated mineral matter
- pitching dangerously to one side
- material consisting of the aggregate of minerals like those making up the Earth's crust
- a genre of popular music originating in the 1950s; a blend of black rhythm-and-blues with white country-and-western
verb
- (transitive) To cause to shake or sway violently.
- (intransitive) To have people dancing and enjoying rock music.
- (transitive and intransitive, of ore etc.) To be washed and panned in a cradle or in a rocker.
- (transitive) To wear (a piece of clothing, outfit etc.) successfully or with style; to carry off (a particular look, style).
- To pelt with rocks; to stone.
- (intransitive) To sway one's body as a stim.
- (transitive) To do something with excitement yet skillfully.
- (intransitive, slang) To be very favourable or skilful; excel; be fantastic.
- (transitive) To thrill or excite, especially with rock music.
- (intransitive) To play, perform, or enjoy rock music, especially with a lot of skill or energy.
- (intransitive) To sway or tilt violently back and forth.
- (transitive and intransitive) To move gently back and forth.
- (slang, ambitransitive, euphemistic) To make love to or have sex (with).
- (intransitive, stative) To be cool.
- (intransitive) To do well or to be operating at high efficiency.
- (transitive) To disturb the emotional equilibrium of; to distress; to greatly impact (most often positively).
- cause to move back and forth
- move back and forth or sideways
- be excellent or outstanding
noun
- spiny-finned freshwater food and game fishes
- support consisting of a branch or rod that serves as a resting place (especially for a bird)
- a linear measure of 16.5 feet
- any of numerous fishes of America and Europe
- any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of various families of the order Perciformes
- an elevated place serving as a seat
- a square rod of land
- (textiles) A frame used to examine cloth.
- A bar used to support a candle, especially in a church.
- (Ghana) Distichodus engycephalus, Distichodus rostratus
- (figuratively) A position that is overly elevated or haughty.
- Any of the three species of spiny-finned freshwater fish in the genus Perca.
- (theater) A platform for lights to be directed at the stage.
- (Australia) Johnius belangerii, Macquaria ambigua, Macquaria colonorum, Macquaria novemaculeata, Nemadactylus macropterus
- (South Africa) Acanthopagrus berda
- (figuratively) A position that is secure and advantageous, especially one which is prominent or elevated.
- Several similar species in the order Perciformes, such as the grouper.
- A pole connecting the fore gear and hind gear of a spring carriage; a reach.
- (UK) Lateolabrax japonicus, Tautogolabrus adspersus
- A rod, staff, tree branch, ledge, etc., used as a roost by a bird.
- A cubic measure of stonework equal to 16.6 × 1.5 × 1 feet.
- (US) Kyphosus azureus
verb
- sit, as on a branch
- cause to perch or sit
- to come to rest, settle
- (intransitive) To stay in an elevated position.
- (transitive, intransitive, textiles) To inspect cloth using a perch.
- (transitive) To place something on (or as if on) a perch.
- (intransitive) To rest on a perch (especially, of a bird); to roost.
- (intransitive) To sit upon the edge of something.
noun
- Alternative form of billard (“coalfish”).
- Temporary lodgings in a private residence, such as is organised for members of a visiting sports team.
- A short piece of wood, especially one used as firewood.
- An allocated space or berth in a boat or ship.
- A short informal letter.
- (figurative) Berth; position.
- (architecture) An ornament in Norman work, resembling a billet of wood, either square or round.
- A place where a soldier is assigned to lodge.
- A written order to quarter soldiers.
- A sealed ticket for a draw or lottery.
- A loop that receives the end of a buckled strap.
- (heraldry) A rectangle used as a charge on an escutcheon.
- A short cutting of sugar cane produced by a harvester or used for planting.
- (metallurgy) A semi-finished length of metal.
- (saddlery) A strap that enters a buckle.
- lodging for military personnel (especially in a private home)
- a short personal letter
verb
prefix
noun
- The sablefish.
- (countable) Any other marten, especially Martes americana (syn. Mustela americana).
- (countable) A small carnivorous mammal of the Old World that resembles a weasel, Martes zibellina, from cold regions in Eurasia and the North Pacific islands, valued for its dark brown fur.
- (countable and uncountable) A dark brown colour, resembling the fur of some sables.
- (in the plural, sables) Black garments, especially worn in mourning.
- (countable) An artist's brush made from the fur of the sable, the kolinsky sable-hair brush.
- (heraldry) A black colour on a coat of arms.
- (countable and uncountable) A pelt of fur of a sable or of one of another species of martens; a coat made from this fur.
- marten of northern Asian forests having luxuriant dark brown fur
- a scarf (or trimming) made of sable
- an artist's brush made of sable hairs
- the expensive dark brown fur of the marten
- a very dark black
adj
noun
- Percina caprodes, an American freshwater fish, the log perch, rockfish, a kind of darter.
- A grunt, Haemulon parra.
- Lachnolaimus maximus, an edible species of wrasse, found in the Caribbean.
- Several of the species of Bodianus.
- The pigfish or sailor's choice, Orthopristis chrysoptera, or other species in genus Orthospristis.
- A pinfish, Lagodon rhomboides, ranging from Massachusetts to Texas.
- A large, red, spiny-headed, European marine fish (Scorpaena scrofa).
- large wrasse of western Atlantic; head of male resembles a pig's snout
- found from Long Island southward
prefix
noun
- (US, informal) Ellipsis of flathead catfish
- (only "flatheads" as plural) A type of screw or bolt designed to fit in a countersink so that it sits flush with a surface.
- (only "flatheads" as plural) Synonym of side valve.
- Any fish in the family Platycephalidae.
- food fish of the Indonesian region of the Pacific; resembles gurnards
- pallid bottom-dwelling flat-headed fish with large eyes and a duck-like snout
noun
- the lean flesh of any of various valuable market fish caught among rocks
- marine food and game fish with dark longitudinal stripes; migrates upriver to spawn; sometimes placed in the genus Morone
- marine food fish found among rocks along the northern coasts of Europe and America
- Sebastes, mainly of the North Pacific
- Certain fish of genus Scorpaena, such as Madeira rockfish (Scorpaena maderensis), a common Mediterranean species
- Hexagrammos, a genus of greenling from the North Pacific
- (Internet slang, derogatory, ethnic slur, US) A black person who does not know how to swim.
- A long-spined bullhead (Taurulus bubalis)
- Myliobatis goodei (southern eagle ray)
- Scyliorhinus stellaris (nursehound), a shark known as rock salmon when used in cuisine
- A fish in the family Sebastidae, marine fishes that inhabit oceans around the world
- A logperch (Percina caprodes), also known as common logperch or log perch
- Acanthoclinus, a genus of fish from New Zealand
- Salvelinus, a genus of fish in the salmon family
- A stonefishes (genus Synanceia), venomous fishes from the Indo-Pacific
- Certain groupers, in the subfamily Epinephelinae
- Hypoplectrodes, a genus of fish in the family Serranidae
- A striped bass (Morone saxatilis), a species of fish from North America
noun
- Nonstandard form of Goldfish (“a small orange saltine-like cracker shaped in the form of a fish”).
- (figuratively, informal) A person with an unreliable memory.
- A type of small fish, Carassius auratus, typically orange-colored.
- small golden or orange-red freshwater fishes of Eurasia used as pond or aquarium fishes
noun
- Any of certain fish of the family Pinguipedidae.
- A person who weaves; especially, one who weaves cloth for a living.
- A horizontal strand of material used in basket weaving.
- Any of certain spider species, such as the sheet weaver or the funnel weaver, so named because they spin interesting and characteristic webs.
- An aquatic beetle of the genus Gyrinus.
- A weaverbird.
- finch-like African and Asian colonial birds noted for their elaborately woven nests
- a craftsman who weaves cloth
noun
- The byssus of certain shellfish.
- The curved underside of an axehead, extending from the lower end of the cutting edge to the axehandle.
- The cluster of small feathers at the base of the beak in some birds.
- (slang, originally gambling) A fake customer or companion; an intermediary.
- A barb or sharp point of an arrow or other instrument, projecting backward to prevent the head from being easily drawn out.
- Facial hair on the chin, cheeks, jaw and neck.
- One who helps to conceal infidelity in a monogamous relationship by acting as a cover.
- The gills of some bivalves, such as the oyster.
- (LGBTQ) A woman who accompanies a gay man, or a man who accompanies a lesbian, in order to give the impression that the person being accompanied is heterosexual.
- (entomology, lepidopterology) The hairs of the labial palpi of moths and butterflies.
- That part of the underside of a horse's lower jaw which is above the chin, and bears the curb of a bridle.
- The appendages to the jaw in some cetaceans, and to the mouth or jaws of some fishes.
- (botany) The long or stiff hairs on a plant; the awn.
- Long, hairlike feathers that protrude from the chest of a turkey.
- a person who diverts suspicion from someone (especially a woman who accompanies a male homosexual in order to conceal his homosexuality)
- the hair growing on the lower part of a man's face
- a tuft or growth of hairs or bristles on certain plants such as iris or grasses
- tuft of strong filaments by which e.g. a mussel makes itself fast to a fixed surface
- hairy growth on or near the face of certain mammals
verb
- (transitive) To take by the beard; to seize, pluck, or pull the beard of (a man), in anger or contempt.
- (transitive) To boldly and bravely oppose or confront, often to the chagrin of the one being bearded.
- (intransitive, beekeeping) Of bees, to accumulate together in a beard-like shape.
- (transitive) To deprive (an oyster or similar shellfish) of the gills.
- (LGBTQ, slang, ambitransitive) Of a gay man or woman: to accompany a gay person of the opposite sex in order to give the impression that they are heterosexual.
- go along the rim, like a beard around the chin
noun
- nontechnical name for any of numerous edible marine and freshwater spiny-finned fishes
- any of various North American freshwater fish with lean flesh (especially of the genus Micropterus)
- the lean flesh of a saltwater fish of the family Serranidae
- the lowest part in polyphonic music
- an adult male singer with the lowest voice
- the lowest adult male singing voice
- the lowest part of the musical range
- the member with the lowest range of a family of musical instruments
- (music) One who sings in the bass range.
- (music) An instrument that plays in the bass range, in particular a double bass, bass guitar, electric bass or bass synthesiser.
- The perch; any of various marine and freshwater fish resembling the perch, all within the order of Perciformes.
- A low spectrum of sound tones.
- (music notation) The clef sign that indicates that the pitch of the notes is below middle C; a bass clef.
- The fibrous inner bark of the linden or lime tree, used for making mats.
- (music) A section of a musical group that produces low-pitched sound, lower than the baritone and tenor.
- Fibers from other plants, especially palm trees
- Anything made from such fibers, such as a hassock, basket or thick mat.
adj
verb
noun
- North Atlantic rockfish
- Any of genus Sebastes, or edible red rockfishs.
- male salmon that has recently spawned
- large edible fish found off coast of United States from Massachusetts to Mexico
- especially Sebastes norvegicus, found in North American waters, also called rosefish or ocean perch.
- A large red edible fish, Sciaenops ocellatus, also called channel bass or red drum.
- Etelis oculatus, queen snapper.
- Rhomboplites aurorubens, vermillion snapper.
- Centroberyx affinis, eastern nannygai.
- A slimehead, of family Trachichthyidae.
- Lutjanus spp., snappers.
- Oncorhynchus nerka, sockeye salmon.
noun
- A gopher rockfish (Sebastes carnatus).
- (programming) A Golang programmer.
- A gopher tortoise (Gopherus spp.).
- A ground squirrel (Marmotinae spp.).
- Alternative spelling of gofer.
- A small burrowing rodent native to North and Central America, especially in the family Geomyidae (pocket gophers).
- a zealously energetic person (especially a salesman)
- any of various terrestrial burrowing rodents of Old and New Worlds; often destroy crops
- burrowing edible land tortoise of southeastern North America
- burrowing rodent of the family Geomyidae having large external cheek pouches; of Central America and southwestern North America
noun
- Any of type of fish in the family Agonidae, also known as alligatorfish, starsnout, hooknose and rockhead.
- A vessel with shallow cuplike compartments in which eggs are cooked over boiling water
- (US, dialect) An American wigeon (Anas americana).
- (soccer) An attacker with good movement inside the penalty box, see Wikipedia:Goal poacher.
- A person who trespasses in order to take game illegally, one who poaches; a person who illegally takes animals or plants from the wild.
- a cooking vessel designed to poach food (such as fish or eggs)
- small slender fish (to 8 inches) with body covered by bony plates; chiefly of deeper northern Pacific waters
- someone who hunts or fishes illegally on the property of another
noun
- The huss or rock salmon.
- (countable) Distaff.
- (CB radio slang) A crystal used to control the radio frequency.
- (uncountable) The naturally occurring aggregate of solid mineral matter that constitutes a significant part of the earth's crust.
- The striped bass.
- (US, slang) A crystallized lump of crack cocaine.
- (rock paper scissors) A closed hand (a handshape resembling a rock), that beats scissors and loses to paper. It beats lizard and loses to Spock in rock-paper-scissors-lizard-Spock.
- (uncountable) The flax or wool on a distaff.
- (informal, cricket) A cricket ball, especially a new one that has not been softened by use
- A large hill or island having no vegetation.
- (chiefly UK, Ireland) A boulder or large stone; or (US, Canada) a smaller stone; a pebble.
- An act of rocking; a rocking motion; a sway.
- (British, uncountable) A type of confectionery made from sugar in the shape of a stick, traditionally having some text running through its length.
- A mass of stone projecting out of the ground or water.
- A lump or cube of ice.
- (colloquial) A precious stone or gem, especially a diamond.
- (US, basketball, slang) A basketball.
- (South Africa, slang, derogatory) An Afrikaner.
- (figuratively) Something that is strong, stable, and dependable; a person who provides security or support to another.
- (US, baseball, slang) A mistake.
- (curling) Synonym of stone.
- (geology) Any natural material with a distinctive composition of minerals.
- (US, slang) An unintelligent person, especially one who repeats mistakes.
- (music) A style of music characterized by basic drum-beat, generally 4/4 riffs, based on (usually electric) guitar, bass guitar, drums, keyboards (often), and vocals.
- (US poker slang) An extremely conservative player who is willing to play only the very strongest hands.
- hard bright-colored stick candy (typically flavored with peppermint)
- (figurative) someone who is strong and stable and dependable
- a lump or mass of hard consolidated mineral matter
- pitching dangerously to one side
- material consisting of the aggregate of minerals like those making up the Earth's crust
- a genre of popular music originating in the 1950s; a blend of black rhythm-and-blues with white country-and-western
verb
- (transitive) To cause to shake or sway violently.
- (intransitive) To have people dancing and enjoying rock music.
- (transitive and intransitive, of ore etc.) To be washed and panned in a cradle or in a rocker.
- (transitive) To wear (a piece of clothing, outfit etc.) successfully or with style; to carry off (a particular look, style).
- To pelt with rocks; to stone.
- (intransitive) To sway one's body as a stim.
- (transitive) To do something with excitement yet skillfully.
- (intransitive, slang) To be very favourable or skilful; excel; be fantastic.
- (transitive) To thrill or excite, especially with rock music.
- (intransitive) To play, perform, or enjoy rock music, especially with a lot of skill or energy.
- (intransitive) To sway or tilt violently back and forth.
- (transitive and intransitive) To move gently back and forth.
- (slang, ambitransitive, euphemistic) To make love to or have sex (with).
- (intransitive, stative) To be cool.
- (intransitive) To do well or to be operating at high efficiency.
- (transitive) To disturb the emotional equilibrium of; to distress; to greatly impact (most often positively).
- cause to move back and forth
- move back and forth or sideways
- be excellent or outstanding
noun
- spiny-finned freshwater food and game fishes
- support consisting of a branch or rod that serves as a resting place (especially for a bird)
- a linear measure of 16.5 feet
- any of numerous fishes of America and Europe
- any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of various families of the order Perciformes
- an elevated place serving as a seat
- a square rod of land
- (textiles) A frame used to examine cloth.
- A bar used to support a candle, especially in a church.
- (Ghana) Distichodus engycephalus, Distichodus rostratus
- (figuratively) A position that is overly elevated or haughty.
- Any of the three species of spiny-finned freshwater fish in the genus Perca.
- (theater) A platform for lights to be directed at the stage.
- (Australia) Johnius belangerii, Macquaria ambigua, Macquaria colonorum, Macquaria novemaculeata, Nemadactylus macropterus
- (South Africa) Acanthopagrus berda
- (figuratively) A position that is secure and advantageous, especially one which is prominent or elevated.
- Several similar species in the order Perciformes, such as the grouper.
- A pole connecting the fore gear and hind gear of a spring carriage; a reach.
- (UK) Lateolabrax japonicus, Tautogolabrus adspersus
- A rod, staff, tree branch, ledge, etc., used as a roost by a bird.
- A cubic measure of stonework equal to 16.6 × 1.5 × 1 feet.
- (US) Kyphosus azureus
verb
- sit, as on a branch
- cause to perch or sit
- to come to rest, settle
- (intransitive) To stay in an elevated position.
- (transitive, intransitive, textiles) To inspect cloth using a perch.
- (transitive) To place something on (or as if on) a perch.
- (intransitive) To rest on a perch (especially, of a bird); to roost.
- (intransitive) To sit upon the edge of something.
noun
- Alternative form of billard (“coalfish”).
- Temporary lodgings in a private residence, such as is organised for members of a visiting sports team.
- A short piece of wood, especially one used as firewood.
- An allocated space or berth in a boat or ship.
- A short informal letter.
- (figurative) Berth; position.
- (architecture) An ornament in Norman work, resembling a billet of wood, either square or round.
- A place where a soldier is assigned to lodge.
- A written order to quarter soldiers.
- A sealed ticket for a draw or lottery.
- A loop that receives the end of a buckled strap.
- (heraldry) A rectangle used as a charge on an escutcheon.
- A short cutting of sugar cane produced by a harvester or used for planting.
- (metallurgy) A semi-finished length of metal.
- (saddlery) A strap that enters a buckle.
- lodging for military personnel (especially in a private home)
- a short personal letter
verb
noun
- The sablefish.
- (countable) Any other marten, especially Martes americana (syn. Mustela americana).
- (countable) A small carnivorous mammal of the Old World that resembles a weasel, Martes zibellina, from cold regions in Eurasia and the North Pacific islands, valued for its dark brown fur.
- (countable and uncountable) A dark brown colour, resembling the fur of some sables.
- (in the plural, sables) Black garments, especially worn in mourning.
- (countable) An artist's brush made from the fur of the sable, the kolinsky sable-hair brush.
- (heraldry) A black colour on a coat of arms.
- (countable and uncountable) A pelt of fur of a sable or of one of another species of martens; a coat made from this fur.
- marten of northern Asian forests having luxuriant dark brown fur
- a scarf (or trimming) made of sable
- an artist's brush made of sable hairs
- the expensive dark brown fur of the marten
- a very dark black
adj
noun
- Percina caprodes, an American freshwater fish, the log perch, rockfish, a kind of darter.
- A grunt, Haemulon parra.
- Lachnolaimus maximus, an edible species of wrasse, found in the Caribbean.
- Several of the species of Bodianus.
- The pigfish or sailor's choice, Orthopristis chrysoptera, or other species in genus Orthospristis.
- A pinfish, Lagodon rhomboides, ranging from Massachusetts to Texas.
- A large, red, spiny-headed, European marine fish (Scorpaena scrofa).
- large wrasse of western Atlantic; head of male resembles a pig's snout
- found from Long Island southward
noun
- (US, informal) Ellipsis of flathead catfish
- (only "flatheads" as plural) A type of screw or bolt designed to fit in a countersink so that it sits flush with a surface.
- (only "flatheads" as plural) Synonym of side valve.
- Any fish in the family Platycephalidae.
- food fish of the Indonesian region of the Pacific; resembles gurnards
- pallid bottom-dwelling flat-headed fish with large eyes and a duck-like snout
noun
- the lean flesh of any of various valuable market fish caught among rocks
- marine food and game fish with dark longitudinal stripes; migrates upriver to spawn; sometimes placed in the genus Morone
- marine food fish found among rocks along the northern coasts of Europe and America
- Sebastes, mainly of the North Pacific
- Certain fish of genus Scorpaena, such as Madeira rockfish (Scorpaena maderensis), a common Mediterranean species
- Hexagrammos, a genus of greenling from the North Pacific
- (Internet slang, derogatory, ethnic slur, US) A black person who does not know how to swim.
- A long-spined bullhead (Taurulus bubalis)
- Myliobatis goodei (southern eagle ray)
- Scyliorhinus stellaris (nursehound), a shark known as rock salmon when used in cuisine
- A fish in the family Sebastidae, marine fishes that inhabit oceans around the world
- A logperch (Percina caprodes), also known as common logperch or log perch
- Acanthoclinus, a genus of fish from New Zealand
- Salvelinus, a genus of fish in the salmon family
- A stonefishes (genus Synanceia), venomous fishes from the Indo-Pacific
- Certain groupers, in the subfamily Epinephelinae
- Hypoplectrodes, a genus of fish in the family Serranidae
- A striped bass (Morone saxatilis), a species of fish from North America
noun
- Nonstandard form of Goldfish (“a small orange saltine-like cracker shaped in the form of a fish”).
- (figuratively, informal) A person with an unreliable memory.
- A type of small fish, Carassius auratus, typically orange-colored.
- small golden or orange-red freshwater fishes of Eurasia used as pond or aquarium fishes
noun
- Any of certain fish of the family Pinguipedidae.
- A person who weaves; especially, one who weaves cloth for a living.
- A horizontal strand of material used in basket weaving.
- Any of certain spider species, such as the sheet weaver or the funnel weaver, so named because they spin interesting and characteristic webs.
- An aquatic beetle of the genus Gyrinus.
- A weaverbird.
- finch-like African and Asian colonial birds noted for their elaborately woven nests
- a craftsman who weaves cloth
noun
- The byssus of certain shellfish.
- The curved underside of an axehead, extending from the lower end of the cutting edge to the axehandle.
- The cluster of small feathers at the base of the beak in some birds.
- (slang, originally gambling) A fake customer or companion; an intermediary.
- A barb or sharp point of an arrow or other instrument, projecting backward to prevent the head from being easily drawn out.
- Facial hair on the chin, cheeks, jaw and neck.
- One who helps to conceal infidelity in a monogamous relationship by acting as a cover.
- The gills of some bivalves, such as the oyster.
- (LGBTQ) A woman who accompanies a gay man, or a man who accompanies a lesbian, in order to give the impression that the person being accompanied is heterosexual.
- (entomology, lepidopterology) The hairs of the labial palpi of moths and butterflies.
- That part of the underside of a horse's lower jaw which is above the chin, and bears the curb of a bridle.
- The appendages to the jaw in some cetaceans, and to the mouth or jaws of some fishes.
- (botany) The long or stiff hairs on a plant; the awn.
- Long, hairlike feathers that protrude from the chest of a turkey.
- a person who diverts suspicion from someone (especially a woman who accompanies a male homosexual in order to conceal his homosexuality)
- the hair growing on the lower part of a man's face
- a tuft or growth of hairs or bristles on certain plants such as iris or grasses
- tuft of strong filaments by which e.g. a mussel makes itself fast to a fixed surface
- hairy growth on or near the face of certain mammals
verb
- (transitive) To take by the beard; to seize, pluck, or pull the beard of (a man), in anger or contempt.
- (transitive) To boldly and bravely oppose or confront, often to the chagrin of the one being bearded.
- (intransitive, beekeeping) Of bees, to accumulate together in a beard-like shape.
- (transitive) To deprive (an oyster or similar shellfish) of the gills.
- (LGBTQ, slang, ambitransitive) Of a gay man or woman: to accompany a gay person of the opposite sex in order to give the impression that they are heterosexual.
- go along the rim, like a beard around the chin
noun
- nontechnical name for any of numerous edible marine and freshwater spiny-finned fishes
- any of various North American freshwater fish with lean flesh (especially of the genus Micropterus)
- the lean flesh of a saltwater fish of the family Serranidae
- the lowest part in polyphonic music
- an adult male singer with the lowest voice
- the lowest adult male singing voice
- the lowest part of the musical range
- the member with the lowest range of a family of musical instruments
- (music) One who sings in the bass range.
- (music) An instrument that plays in the bass range, in particular a double bass, bass guitar, electric bass or bass synthesiser.
- The perch; any of various marine and freshwater fish resembling the perch, all within the order of Perciformes.
- A low spectrum of sound tones.
- (music notation) The clef sign that indicates that the pitch of the notes is below middle C; a bass clef.
- The fibrous inner bark of the linden or lime tree, used for making mats.
- (music) A section of a musical group that produces low-pitched sound, lower than the baritone and tenor.
- Fibers from other plants, especially palm trees
- Anything made from such fibers, such as a hassock, basket or thick mat.
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