अंग्रेजी अंग्रेजी शब्दकोश

Jealousy.

Any one of several plants with yellow roots.

See Xanthorhiza.

Same as Orangeroot.

A disease of the bile in horses, cattle, and sheep, causing yellowness of the eyes; jaundice.

A disease of plants, esp. of peach trees, in which the leaves turn to a yellowish color; jeterus.

A group of butterflies in which the predominating color is yellow. It includes the common small yellow butterflies. Called also redhorns, and sulphurs. See Sulphur.

A kind of pepper grass (Lepidium campestre).

Alt. of Yellowshins

See Yellolegs.

Any one of several species of marine carangoid fishes of the genus Seriola; especially, the large California species (S. dorsalis) which sometimes weighs thirty or forty pounds, and is highly esteemed as a food fish; -- called also cavasina, and white salmon.

The mademoiselle, or silver perch.

The menhaden.

The runner, 12.

A California rockfish (Sebastodes flavidus).

The sailor's choice (Diplodus rhomboides).

Any one of several species of American ground warblers of the genus Geothlypis, esp. the Maryland yellowthroat (G. trichas), which is a very common species.

A kind of grass, perhaps a species of Agrostis.

The wood of any one of several different kinds of trees; also, any one of the trees themselves. Among the trees so called are the Cladrastis tinctoria, an American leguminous tree; the several species of prickly ash (Xanthoxylum); the Australian Flindersia Oxleyana, a tree related to the mahogany; certain South African species of Podocarpus, trees related to the yew; the East Indian Podocarpus latifolia; and the true satinwood (Chloroxylon Swietenia). All these Old World trees furnish valuable timber.

A European yellow-flowered, gentianaceous (Chlora perfoliata). The whole plant is intensely bitter, and is sometimes used as a tonic, and also in dyeing yellow.