| helladic civilization | (n) the bronze-age culture of mainland Greece that flourished 2500-1100 BC, Syn. Helladic culture, Helladic civilisation |
| mitchella | (n) creeping evergreen herbs of North America, Syn. genus Mitchella |
| morchella | (n) genus of edible fungi: morel, Syn. genus Morchella |
| morchellaceae | (n) a family of edible fungi including the true morels, Syn. family Morchellaceae |
| morchella crassipes | (n) a delicious morel with a conic fertile portion having deep and irregular pits, Syn. thick-footed morel |
| morchella semilibera | (n) a morel with the ridged and pitted fertile portion attached to the stipe for about half its length, Syn. half-free morel, cow's head |
| shellac | (n) lac purified by heating and filtering; usually in thin orange or yellow flakes but sometimes bleached white |
| shellac | (n) a thin varnish made by dissolving lac in ethanol; used to finish wood, Syn. shellac varnish |
| shellac | (v) cover with shellac, Syn. shellack |
| shellac wax | (n) a hard wax separated from shellac by its insolubility in alcohol, Syn. lac wax |
| black morel | (n) a morel whose pitted fertile body is attached to the stalk with little free skirt around it; the fertile body is grey when young and black in old age, Syn. Morchella conica, Morchella angusticeps, narrowhead morel, conic morel |
| blanket flower | (n) annual of central United States having showy long-stalked yellow flower heads marked with scarlet or purple in the center, Syn. fire wheel, Gaillardia pulchella, Indian blanket, fire-wheel |
| common morel | (n) an edible and choice morel with a globular to elongate head with an irregular pattern of pits and ridges, Syn. sponge mushroom, Morchella esculenta, sponge morel |
| french polish | (n) a varnish for wood consisting of shellac dissolved in alcohol, Syn. French polish shellac |
| partridgeberry | (n) creeping woody plant of eastern North America with shiny evergreen leaves and scarlet berries, Syn. boxberry, twinberry, Mitchella repens |
| Hellanodic | n. [ Gr. &unr_;; &unr_;, &unr_;, a Greek + &unr_; right, judgment. ] (Gr. Antiq.) A judge or umpire in games or combats. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Lumachella | { ‖ } n. [ F. lumachelle, It. lumachella, fr. lamachella a little snail, dim. of lumaca a snail, fr. L. limax, -acis. ] (Min.) A grayish brown limestone, containing fossil shells, which reflect a beautiful play of colors. It is also called fire marble, from its fiery reflections. [ 1913 Webster ] Variants: Lumachel |
| Shellapple | n. (Zool.) See Sheldafle. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Shell-lac | { } n. [ Shell + lac a resinous substance; cf. D. shellak, G. schellack. ] 1. Lac which has been reduced to a thin crust. See the Note under 2d Lac. [ 1913 Webster ] 2. A solution of shellac{ 1 } in alcohol or other volatile solvent, used as a varnish. [ PJC ] 3. A phonograph record, made of a material containing shellac; -- no longer manufactured. [ Obsolescent ] RHUD [ PJC ] Variants: Shellac |
