English English Dictionary

A species of grass (Poa compressa) with bluish green stems, valuable in thin gravelly soils; wire grass.

The common jay of the United States (Cyanocitta, or Cyanura, cristata). The predominant color is bright blue.

The European blue titmouse (Parus coeruleus); the bluecap.

A plant. Same as Bluebottle.

A broad, flat Scottish cap of blue woolen, or one wearing such cap; a Scotchman.

The blue-cheeked honeysucker of Australia.

Having blue eyes.

a grasslike plant (Sisyrinchium anceps), with small flowers of a delicate blue color.

A name given to fluor spar in Derbyshire, where it is used for ornamental purposes.

Having blue veins or blue streaks.

A trout (Salmo oquassa) inhabiting some of the lakes of Maine.

A salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka) of the Columbia River and northward.

An American river herring (Clupea aestivalis), closely allied to the alewife.

The hero of a mediaeval French nursery legend, who, leaving home, enjoined his young wife not to open a certain room in his castle. She entered it, and found the murdered bodies of his former wives. -- Also used adjectively of a subject which it is forbidden to investigate.

A plant of the genus Scilla (Scilla nutans).

A plant of the genus Campanula, especially the Campanula rotundifolia, which bears blue bell-shaped flowers; the harebell.

The berry of several species of Vaccinium, an ericaceous genus, differing from the American huckleberries in containing numerous minute seeds instead of ten nutlets. The commonest species are V. Pennsylvanicum and V. vacillans. V. corymbosum is the tall blueberry.

A duck of the genus Fuligula. Two American species (F. marila and F. affinis) are common. See Scaup duck.

A small song bird (Sialia sialis), very common in the United States, and, in the north, one of the earliest to arrive in spring. The male is blue, with the breast reddish. It is related to the European robin.

A plant (Centaurea cyanus) which grows in grain fields. It receives its name from its blue bottle-shaped flowers.