mitchell | (n) English aeronautical engineer (1895-1937), Syn. R. J. Mitchell, Reginald Joseph Mitchell |
mitchell | (n) United States aviator and general who was an early advocate of military air power (1879-1936), Syn. Billy Mitchell, William Mitchell |
mitchell | (n) United States astronomer who studied sunspots and nebulae (1818-1889), Syn. Maria Mitchell |
mitchell | (n) United States writer noted for her novel about the South during the American Civil War (1900-1949), Syn. Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell, Margaret Mitchell |
mitchell | (n) United States labor leader; president of the United Mine Workers of America from 1898 to 1908 (1870-1919), Syn. John Mitchell |
mitchell | (n) United States dancer who formed the first Black classical ballet company (born in 1934), Syn. Arthur Mitchell |
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 |
rochelle salt | (n) a double salt used in Seidlitz powder; acts as a cathartic, Syn. potassium sodium tartrate, Rochelle salts |
seychelles | (n) a republic on the Seychelles islands; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1976, Syn. Republic of Seychelles |
seychelles | (n) a group of about 90 islands in the western Indian Ocean to the north of Madagascar, Syn. Seychelles islands |
seychelles monetary unit | (n) monetary unit in Seychelles |
seychelles rupee | (n) the basic unit of money in Seychelles; equal to 100 cents, Syn. rupee |
seychellois | (n) a native or inhabitant of Seychelles |
seychellois | (adj) of the Seychelles or their people |
zannichellia | (n) horned pondweed: completely submerged herbs; in some classifications included in Potamogetonaceae, Syn. genus Zannichellia |
zannichelliaceae | (n) alternative classification for some genera included in Potamogetonaceae; one species, Syn. family Zannichelliaceae |
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 |
common zebra | (n) of the plains of central and eastern Africa, Syn. Burchell's zebra, Equus Burchelli |
grass pink | (n) an orchid, Syn. Calopogon tuberosum, Calopogon pulchellum |
horned pondweed | (n) found in still or slow-moving fresh or brackish water; useful to oxygenate cool water ponds and aquaria, Syn. Zannichellia palustris |
melba | (n) Australian operatic soprano (1861-1931), Syn. Helen Porter Mitchell, Dame Nellie Melba |
native orange | (n) small Australian tree bearing edible dark purple fruit, Syn. Capparis mitchellii |
partridgeberry | (n) creeping woody plant of eastern North America with shiny evergreen leaves and scarlet berries, Syn. boxberry, twinberry, Mitchella repens |
robin's plantain | (n) common perennial of eastern North America having flowers with usually violet-purple rays, Syn. Erigeron pulchellus |
seidlitz powder | (n) an effervescing salt containing sodium bicarbonate and Rochelle salt and tartaric acid; used as a cathartic, Syn. Rochelle powder, Seidlitz powders |
speckled rattlesnake | (n) markings vary but usually harmonize with background; of southwestern Arizona and Baja California, Syn. Crotalus mitchellii |
victoria | (n) port city and the capital of Seychelles, Syn. capital of Seychelles |