taller than Abronia elliptica and having night-blooming flowers
<noun.plant>

Abronia fragrans

sweet sand verbena

plant having hemispherical heads of yellow trumpet-shaped flowers; found in coastal dunes from California to British Columbia
<noun.plant>

Abronia latifolia

yellow sand verbena

plant having hemispherical heads of wine-red flowers; found in coastal dunes from California to Mexico
<noun.plant>

Abronia maritima

beach pancake

prostrate herb having heads of deep pink to white flowers; found in coastal dunes from British Columbia to Baja California
<noun.plant>

Abronia umbellata

beach sand verbena

pink sand verbena

soft-haired sticky plant with heads of bright pink trumpet-shaped flowers; found in sandy desert soil; after ample rains may carpet miles of desert with pink from the southwestern United States to northern Mexico
<noun.plant>

Abronia villosa

desert sand verbena

a mountainous region of central Italy on the Adriatic
<noun.location>

Abruzzi

Abruzzi e Molise

a mountainous region of central Italy on the Adriatic
<noun.location>

Abruzzi

Abruzzi e Molise

a New York school of painting characterized by freely created abstractions; the first important school of American painting to develop independently of European styles
<noun.artifact>

Abstract Expressionism

action painting

Persian physician and influential philosopher; his interpretation of Aristotle influenced St. Thomas Aquinas; writings on medicine were important for almost 500 years (980-1037)
<noun.person>

Abu Ali al-Husain ibn Abdallah ibn Sina

Avicenna

ibn-Sina

a sheikhdom of eastern Arabia and capital of the United Arab Emirates
<noun.location>

Abu Dhabi

United Arab Emirates's capital

a terrorist group that has worked with Al Qaeda; claimed responsibility for attacks in Iraq and Turkey
<noun.group>

Abu Hafs al-Masri Brigades

a Palestinian international terrorist organization that split from the PLO in 1974; has conducted terrorist attacks in 20 countries
<noun.group>

ANO

Abu Nidal Organization

Arab Revolutionary Brigades

Black September

Fatah Revolutionary Council

Fatah-RC

Revolutionary Organization of Socialist Muslims

sample sentences

"in the 1980s the Fatah-RC was considered the most dangerous and murderous Palestinian terror group"

a small gang of terrorist thugs claiming to seek a separate Islamic state for the Muslim minority in the Philippines; uses bombing and assassination and extortion and kidnapping
<noun.group>

Abu Sayyaf

Bearer of the Sword

sample sentences

"In 2001 Abu Sayyaf kidnapped twenty people and beheaded one of the American captives"

damsel fishes
<noun.animal>

Abudefduf

genus Abudefduf

large blue-grey black-striped damselfish; nearly worldwide
<noun.animal>

Abudefduf saxatilis

sergeant major

capital of Nigeria in the center of the country
<noun.location>

Abuja

Nigerian capital

capital of Nigeria

a bay on the Mediterranean Sea in northern Egypt
<noun.object>

Abukir

Abukir Bay

a bay on the Mediterranean Sea in northern Egypt
<noun.object>

Abukir

Abukir Bay

Arabian philosopher born in Spain; wrote detailed commentaries on Aristotle that were admired by the Schoolmen (1126-1198)
<noun.person>

Abul-Walid Mohammed ibn-Ahmad Ibn-Mohammed ibn-Roshd

Averroes

ibn-Roshd

herbs or shrubs or small trees: flowering maple; Indian mallow
<noun.plant>

Abutilon

genus Abutilon

tall annual herb or subshrub of tropical Asia having velvety leaves and yellow flowers and yielding a strong fiber; naturalized in southeastern Europe and United States
<noun.plant>

Abutilon theophrasti

China jute

Indian mallow

butter-print

velvet-leaf

velvetleaf

velvetweed

German art historian (1866-1929)
<noun.person>

Aby Moritz Warburg

Aby Warburg

Warburg

German art historian (1866-1929)
<noun.person>

Aby Moritz Warburg

Aby Warburg

Warburg

an ancient Greek colony on the Asiatic side of the Dardanelles; scene of the legend of Hero and Leander
<noun.location>

Abydos

a promontory in northern Morocco opposite the Rock of Gibraltar; one of the Pillars of Hercules
<noun.object>

Abila

Abyla

Jebel Musa

Ethiopia is a republic in northeastern Africa on the Red Sea; formerly called Abyssinia
<noun.location>

Abyssinia

Ethiopia

Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia

Yaltopya

a small slender short-haired breed of African origin having brownish fur with a reddish undercoat
<noun.animal>

Abyssinian

Abyssinian cat

large evergreen arborescent herb having huge paddle-shaped leaves and bearing inedible fruit that resemble bananas but edible young flower shoots; sometimes placed in genus Musa
<noun.plant>

Abyssinian banana

Ensete ventricosum

Ethiopian banana

Musa ensete

a small slender short-haired breed of African origin having brownish fur with a reddish undercoat
<noun.animal>

Abyssinian

Abyssinian cat

a radioactive element of the actinide series; found in uranium ores
<noun.substance>

Ac

actinium

atomic number 89