Word Meanings - CRESSY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Abounding in cresses. The cressy islets white in flower. Tennyson.

Related words: (words related to CRESSY)

• WHITECAP
  The European redstart; -- so called from its white forehead. The whitethroat; -- so called from its gray head. The European tree sparrow. 2. A wave whose crest breaks into white foam, as when the wind is freshening.
• WHITE-FRONTED
  Having a white front; as, the white-fronted lemur. White- fronted goose , the white brant, or snow goose. See Snow goose, under Snow.
• WHITE FLY
  Any one of numerous small injurious hemipterous insects of the genus Aleyrodes, allied to scale insects. They are usually covered with a white or gray powder.
• FLOWERY-KIRTLED
  Dressed with garlands of flowers. Milton.
• WHITESTER
  A bleacher of lines; a whitener; a whitster.
• WHITE-HEART
  A somewhat heart-shaped cherry with a whitish skin.
• FLOWER-DE-LUCE
  A genus of perennial herbs with swordlike leaves and large three-petaled flowers often of very gay colors, but probably white in the plant first chosen for the royal French emblem. Note: There are nearly one hundred species, natives of the north
• WHITESIDE
  The golden-eye.
• WHITE-EAR
  The wheatear.
• FLOWERY
  1. Full of flowers; abounding with blossoms. 2. Highly embellished with figurative language; florid; as, a flowery style. Milton. The flowery kingdom, China.
• FLOWERLESSNESS
  State of being without flowers.
• WHITEBLOW
  See WHITLOW
• FLOWERLESS
  Having no flowers. Flowerless plants, plants which have no true flowers, and produce no seeds; cryptigamous plants.
• WHITEWING
  The chaffinch; -- so called from the white bands on the wing. The velvet duck.
• WHITEWALL
  The spotted flycatcher; -- so called from the white color of the under parts.
• WHITE MUSTARD
  A kind of mustard with rough-hairy foliage, a long-beaked hispid pod, and pale seeds, which yield mustard and mustard oil. The plant is also grown for forage.
• WHITE-WATER
  A dangerous disease of sheep.
• WHITETHROAT
  Any one of several species of Old World warblers, esp. the common European species , called also strawsmear, nettlebird, muff, and whitecap, the garden whitethroat, or golden warbler , and the lesser whitethroat .
• WHITEBILL
  The American coot.
• WHITE-EYE
  Any one of several species of small Old World singing of the genus Zosterops, as Zosterops palpebrosus of India, and Z. coerulescens of Australia. The eyes are encircled by a ring of white feathers, whence the name. Called also bush creeper, and
• WINDFLOWER
  The anemone; -- so called because formerly supposed to open only when the wind was blowing. See Anemone.
• CAULIFLOWER
  An annual variety of Brassica oleracea, or cabbage of which the cluster of young flower stalks and buds is eaten as a vegetable. 2. The edible head or "curd" of a caulifower plant. (more info) caulis, and by E. flower; F. chou cabbage is fr. L.
• HEPPELWHITE
  Designating a light and elegant style developed in England under George III., chiefly by Messrs. A.Heppelwhite & Co.
• MAYFLOWER
  In England, the hawthorn; in New England, the trailing arbutus ; also, the blossom of these plants.
• UNFLOWER
  To strip of flowers. G. Fletcher.