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Word Meanings - HEWHOLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The European green woodpecker. See Yaffle.

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  • GREENLANDER
    A native of Greenland.
  • GREENLET
    l. One of numerous species of small American singing birds, of the genus Vireo, as the solitary, or blue-headed (Vireo solitarius); the brotherly-love ; the warbling greenlet ; the yellow-throated greenlet and others. See Vireo. 2. Any species
  • GREENSAND
    A variety of sandstone, usually imperfectly consolidated, consisting largely of glauconite, a silicate of iron and potash of a green color, mixed with sand and a trace of phosphate of lime. Note: Greensand is often called marl, because
  • GREENFISH
    See POLLOCK
  • GREENOCKITE
    Native cadmium sulphide, a mineral occurring in yellow hexagonal crystals, also as an earthy incrustation.
  • GREENHOUSE
    A house in which tender plants are cultivated and sheltered from the weather.
  • GREENWEED
    See GREENBROOM
  • GREENHORN
    A raw, inexperienced person; one easily imposed upon. W. Irving.
  • GREEN-STALL
    A stall at which greens and fresh vegetables are exposed for sale.
  • GREENISH
    Somewhat green; having a tinge of green; as, a greenish yellow. -- Green"ish*ness, n.
  • GREENBACKER
    One of those who supported greenback or paper money, and opposed the resumption of specie payments.
  • GREENGAGE
    A kind of plum of medium size, roundish shape, greenish flesh, and delicious flavor. It is called in France Reine Claude, after the queen of Francis I. See Gage.
  • GREENROOM
    The retiring room of actors and actresses in a theater.
  • GREEN-BROOM
    A plant of the genus Genista ; dyer's weed; -- called also greenweed.
  • YAFFLE
    The European green woodpecker . It is noted for its loud laughlike note. Called also eccle, hewhole, highhoe, laughing bird, popinjay, rain bird, yaffil, yaffler, yaffingale, yappingale, yackel, and woodhack.
  • GREENHEAD
    The mallard. The striped bass. See Bass.
  • GREENTH
    The state or quality of being green; verdure. The greenth of summer. G. Eliot.
  • GREENFINCH
    1. A European finch ; -- called also green bird, green linnet, green grosbeak, green olf, greeny, and peasweep. 2. The Texas sparrow , in which the general color is olive green, with four rufous stripes on the head.
  • GREENBONE
    Any garfish . The European eelpout.
  • GREENHEAD; GREENHOOD
    A state of greenness; verdancy. Chaucer.
  • AYEGREEN
    The houseleek . Halliwell.
  • BRUNSWICK GREEN
    An oxychloride of copper, used as a green pigment; also, a carbonate of copper similarly employed.
  • SHAGREEN; SHAGREENED
    Covered with rough scales or points like those on shagreen. (more info) 1. Made or covered with the leather called shagreen. "A shagreen case of lancets." T. Hook.
  • SHAGREEN
    To chagrin.
  • SCHEELE'S GREEN
    See GREEN
  • PUTTING GREEN
    The green, or plot of smooth turf, surrounding a hole. "The term putting green shall mean the ground within twenty yards of the hole, excepting hazards." Golf Rules.

 

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