garden chair
1: chair left outside for use on a lawn or in a garden [syn: {lawn chair}]
garden current
1: cultivated European current bearing small edible red berries [syn: {red currant}, {Ribes rubrum}]
garden egg
1: hairy upright herb native to southeastern Asia but widely cultivated for its large glossy edible fruit commonly used as a vegetable [syn: {eggplant}, {aubergine}, {brinjal}, {eggplant bush}, {mad a...
garden forget-me-not
1: small biennial to perennial herb of Europe, northern Africa and western Asia having blue, purple or white flowers [syn: {Myosotis sylvatica}]
garden heliotrope
1: tall rhizomatous plant having very fragrant flowers and rhizomes used medicinally [syn: {common valerian}, {Valeriana officinalis}]
garden hose
1: a hose used for watering a lawn or garden
garden huckleberry
1: improved garden variety of black nightshade having small edible orange or black berries [syn: {wonderberry}, {sunberry}, {Solanum nigrum guineese}, {Solanum melanocerasum}, {Solanum burbankii}]
garden lettuce
1: annual or perennial garden plant having succulent leaves used in salads; widely grown [syn: {common lettuce}, {Lactuca sativa}]
garden loosestrife
1: frequently considered a weed; Europe and Asia [syn: {yellow loosestrife}, {Lysimachia vulgaris}]
garden nasturtium
1: strong-growing annual climber having large flowers of all shades of orange from orange-red to yellowish orange and seeds that are pickled and used like capers [syn: {Indian cress}, {Tropaeolum maju...
Garden of Eden
1: a beautiful garden where Adam and Eve were placed at the Creation; when they disobeyed and ate the forbidden fruit from the tree of knowledge of good and evil they were driven from their paradise (...
garden orache
1: Asiatic plant resembling spinach often used as a potherb; naturalized in Europe and North America [syn: {mountain spinach}, {Atriplex hortensis}]
garden party
1: a party of people assembled for social interaction out of doors [syn: {lawn party}, {fete champetre}]
garden pea
1: the flattened to cylindric inflated multi-seeded fruit of the common pea plant 2: plant producing peas usually eaten fresh rather than dried [syn: {garden pea plant}, {common pea}, {Pisum sativum}]...
garden pea plant
1: plant producing peas usually eaten fresh rather than dried [syn: {garden pea}, {common pea}, {Pisum sativum}]
garden pepper cress
1: annual herb used as salad green and garnish [syn: {common garden cress}, {pepper grass}, {pepperwort}, {Lepidium sativum}]
garden pink
1: any of various flowers of plants of the genus Dianthus cultivated for their fragrant flowers [syn: {pink}]
garden plant
1: any of a variety of plants usually grown especially in a flower or herb garden
garden rhubarb
1: long-cultivated hybrid of Rheum palmatum; stems often cooked in pies or as sauce or preserves [syn: {pie plant}, {Rheum cultorum}, {Rheum rhabarbarum}, {Rheum rhaponticum}]
garden rocket
1: erect European annual often grown as a salad crop to be harvested when young and tender [syn: {rocket}, {roquette}, {rocket salad}, {arugula}, {Eruca sativa}, {Eruca vesicaria sativa}]
garden snail
1: any of several inedible snails of the genus Helix; often destructive pests
garden sorrel
1: low perennial with small silvery-green ovate to hastate leaves [syn: {French sorrel}, {Rumex scutatus}] 2: European sorrel with large slightly acidic sagittate leaves grown throughout north tempera...
garden spider
1: a common European garden spider [syn: {Aranea diademata}]
Garden State
1: a Mid-Atlantic state on the Atlantic; one of the original 13 colonies [syn: {New Jersey}, {NJ}]
garden strawberry
1: widely cultivated [syn: {cultivated strawberry}, {Fragaria ananassa}]
garden symphilid
1: minute arthropod often infesting the underground parts of truck-garden and greenhouse crops [syn: {garden centipede}, {symphilid}, {Scutigerella immaculata}]
garden tool
1: used for working in gardens or yards [syn: {lawn tool}]
garden truck
1: fresh fruits and vegetable grown for the market [syn: {produce}, {green goods}, {green groceries}]
garden violet
1: European violet typically having purple to white flowers; widely naturalized [syn: {sweet violet}, {English violet}, {Viola odorata}]
gardener
1: someone who takes care of a garden [syn: {nurseryman}] 2: someone employed to work in a garden
gardener's delight
1: an old cottage garden plant of southeastern Europe widely cultivated for its attractive white woolly foliage and showy crimson flowers [syn: {mullein pink}, {rose campion}, {dusty miller}, {Lychnis...
gardener's garters
1: perennial grass of marshy meadows and ditches having broad leaves; Europe and North America [syn: {reed canary grass}, {lady's laces}, {ribbon grass}, {Phalaris arundinacea}]
gardenia
1: any of various shrubs and small trees of the genus Gardenia having large fragrant white or yellow flowers
Gardenia augusta
1: evergreen shrub widely cultivated for its large fragrant waxlike white flowers and glossy leaves [syn: {cape jasmine}, {cape jessamine}, {Gardenia jasminoides}]
Gardenia jasminoides
1: evergreen shrub widely cultivated for its large fragrant waxlike white flowers and glossy leaves [syn: {cape jasmine}, {cape jessamine}, {Gardenia augusta}]
gardening
1: the cultivation of plants [syn: {horticulture}]
Gardiner
1: British historian remembered for his ten-volume history of England (1829-1902) [syn: {Samuel Rawson Gardiner}]
Gardner
1: United States collector and patron of art who built a museum in Boston to house her collection and opened it to the public in 1903 (1840-1924) [syn: {Isabella Stewart Gardner}] 2: writer of detecti...
Garfield
1: 20th President of the United States; assassinated by a frustrated office-seeker (1831-1881) [syn: {James Garfield}, {James A. Garfield}, {James Abraham Garfield}, {President Garfield}]
garfish
1: primitive predaceous North American fish covered with hard scales and having long jaws with needle-like teeth [syn: {gar}, {garpike}, {billfish}, {Lepisosteus osseus}] [also: {garfishes} (pl)]
garganey
1: small Eurasian teal [syn: {Anas querquedula}]
gargantuan
1: of great mass; huge and bulky; "a jumbo jet"; "jumbo shrimp" [syn: {elephantine}, {giant}, {jumbo}]
garget
1: tall coarse perennial American herb having small white flowers followed by blackish-red berries on long drooping racemes; young fleshy stems are edible; berries and root are poisonous [syn: {poke},...
gargle
1: a medicated solution used for gargling and rinsing the mouth [syn: {mouthwash}] 2: the sound produced while gargling v 1: utter with gargling or burbling sounds 2: rinse one's mouth and throat with...
gargoyle
1: a spout that terminates in a grotesquely carved figure of a person or animal 2: an ornament consisting of a grotesquely carved figure of a person or animal
gargoylism
1: hereditary disease (autosomal recessive) consisting of an error is mucopolysaccharide metabolism; characterized by severe abnormalities in development of skeletal cartilage and bone and mental reta...
gari
1: cassava with long tuberous edible roots and soft brittle stems; used especially to make cassiri (an intoxicating drink) and tapioca [syn: {bitter cassava}, {manioc}, {mandioc}, {mandioca}, {tapioca...
Garibaldi
1: Italian patriot whose conquest of Sicily and Naples led to the formation of the Italian state (1807-1882) [syn: {Giuseppe Garibaldi}] 2: a loose high-necked blouse with long sleeves; styled after t...
garish
1: tastelessly showy; "a flash car"; "a flashy ring"; "garish colors"; "a gaudy costume"; "loud sport shirts"; "a meretricious yet stylish book"; "tawdry ornaments" [syn: {brassy}, {cheap}, {flash}, {...
garishly
1: in a tastelessly garish manner; "the temple was garishly decorated with bright plastic flowers" [syn: {tawdrily}, {gaudily}]
garishness
1: tasteless showiness [syn: {flashiness}, {gaudiness}, {loudness}, {brashness}, {meretriciousness}, {tawdriness}, {glitz}] 2: strident color or excessive ornamentation [syn: {gaudiness}]
Garland
1: United States singer and film actress (1922-1969) [syn: {Judy Garland}] 2: a city in northeastern Texas (suburb of Dallas) 3: an anthology of short literary pieces and poems and ballads etc. [syn: ...
garland crab
1: medium-sized tree of the eastern United States having pink blossoms and small yellow fruit [syn: {American crab apple}, {Malus coronaria}]
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garland flower
1: widely cultivated low evergreen shrub with dense clusters of fragrant pink to deep rose flowers [syn: {Daphne cneorum}]
garlic
1: bulbous herb of southern Europe widely naturalized; bulb breaks up into separate strong-flavored cloves [syn: {Allium sativum}] 2: aromatic bulb used as seasoning [syn: {ail}]
garlic bread
1: French or Italian bread sliced and spread with garlic butter then crisped in the oven
garlic chive
1: a plant of eastern Asia; larger than Allium schoenoprasum [syn: {Chinese chive}, {Oriental garlic}, {Allium tuberosum}] 2: large flat leaves used as chive is used
garlic clove
1: one of the small bulblets that can be split off of the axis of a larger garlic bulb [syn: {clove}]
garlic mustard
1: European herb that smells like garlic [syn: {hedge garlic}, {sauce-alone}, {jack-by-the-hedge}, {Alliaria officinalis}]
garlic sauce
1: garlic mayonnaise [syn: {aioli}, {aioli sauce}]
garlicky
1: relating to or tasting or smelling of garlic; "garlicky sauce"
garment
1: an article of clothing; "garments of the finest silk" v : provide with clothes or put clothes on; "Parents must feed and dress their child" [syn: {dress}, {clothe}, {enclothe}, {garb}, {raiment}, {...
garment cutter
1: someone who cuts cloth etc. to measure in making garments
garment industry
1: makers and sellers of fashionable clothing [syn: {apparel industry}, {fashion industry}, {fashion business}, {rag trade}]
garment worker
1: a person who makes garments [syn: {garmentmaker}, {garment-worker}]
garment-worker
1: a person who makes garments [syn: {garmentmaker}, {garment worker}]
garmented
1: dressed or clothed especially in fine attire; often used in combination; "the elegantly attired gentleman"; "neatly dressed workers"; "monks garbed in hooded robes"; "went about oddly garmented"; "...
garmentless
1: possessing no clothing [syn: {clothesless}, {raimentless}]
garmentmaker
1: a person who makes garments [syn: {garment-worker}, {garment worker}]
garner
1: a storehouse for threshed grain or animal feed [syn: {granary}] v 1: acquire or deserve by one's efforts or actions [syn: {earn}] 2: store grain 3: assemble or get together; "gather some stones"; "...
garnet
1: any of a group of hard glassy minerals (silicates of various metals) used as gemstones and as an abrasive
garnet lac
1: lac refined by treating with solvent; garnet-colored
Garnier
1: French architect (1825-1898) [syn: {Jean Louis Charles Garnier}]
garnierite
1: a green mineral consisting of hydrated nickel magnesium silicate; a source of nickel
garnish
1: something (such as parsley) added to a dish for flavor or decoration 2: any decoration added as a trimming or adornment v 1: take a debtor's wages on legal orders, such as for child support; "His e...
garnished
1: having decorative or flavorful additions; sometimes used in combination; "a whole salmon garnished with lemon slices"; "parsley-garnished potatoes"
garnishee
1: take a debtor's wages on legal orders, such as for child support; "His employer garnished his wages in order to pay his debt" [syn: {garnish}]
garnishment
1: a court order to an employer to withhold all or part of an employee's wages and to send the money to the court or to the person who won a lawsuit against the employee
Garonne
1: a river that rises in the Pyrenees and flows northwest to the Bay of Biscay [syn: {Garonne River}]
Garonne River
1: a river that rises in the Pyrenees and flows northwest to the Bay of Biscay [syn: {Garonne}]
garotte
1: an instrument of execution for execution by strangulation [syn: {garrote}, {garrotte}, {iron collar}] v : strangle with an iron collar; "people were garrotted during the Inquisition in Spain" [syn:...
garpike
1: primitive predaceous North American fish covered with hard scales and having long jaws with needle-like teeth [syn: {gar}, {garfish}, {billfish}, {Lepisosteus osseus}]
garret
1: floor consisting of open space at the top of a house just below roof; often used for storage [syn: {loft}, {attic}]
Garrick
1: English actor and theater manager who was the foremost Shakespearean actor of his day (1717-1779) [syn: {David Garrick}]
garrison
1: a fortified military post where troops are stationed [syn: {fort}] 2: United States abolitionist who published an anti-slavery journal (1805-1879) [syn: {William Lloyd Garrison}] 3: the troops who ...
garrison cap
1: a wedge-shaped wool or cotton cap; worn as part of a uniform [syn: {overseas cap}]
garrote
1: an instrument of execution for execution by strangulation [syn: {garotte}, {garrotte}, {iron collar}] v : strangle with an iron collar; "people were garrotted during the Inquisition in Spain" [syn:...
garroter
1: someone who kills by strangling [syn: {garrotter}, {strangler}, {throttler}, {choker}]
garrotte
1: an instrument of execution for execution by strangulation [syn: {garrote}, {garotte}, {iron collar}] v : strangle with an iron collar; "people were garrotted during the Inquisition in Spain" [syn: ...
garrotter
1: someone who kills by strangling [syn: {garroter}, {strangler}, {throttler}, {choker}]
Garrulinae
1: subfamily of the crow family: jays [syn: {subfamily Garrulinae}]
garrulity
1: the quality of being wordy and talkative [syn: {garrulousness}, {loquaciousness}, {loquacity}, {talkativeness}]
garrulous
1: full of trivial conversation; "kept from her housework by gabby neighbors" [syn: {chatty}, {gabby}, {loquacious}, {talkative}, {talky}]
garrulously
1: in a chatty loquacious manner; "`When I was young,' she continued loquaciously, `I used to do all sorts of naughty things'" [syn: {loquaciously}, {talkatively}, {talkily}]
garrulousness
1: the quality of being wordy and talkative [syn: {garrulity}, {loquaciousness}, {loquacity}, {talkativeness}]
Garrulus
1: type genus of the Garrulinae: Old World jays [syn: {genus Garrulus}]
Garry oak
1: small deciduous tree of western North America with crooked branches and pale gray bark [syn: {Oregon white oak}, {Oregon oak}, {Quercus garryana}]
garter
1: a band (usually elastic) worn around the leg to hold up a stocking (or around the arm to hold up a sleeve) [syn: {supporter}] v : fasten with or as if with a garter
garter belt
1: a wide belt of elastic with supporters hanging from it; worn by women to hold up stockings [syn: {suspender belt}]
garter snake
1: any of numerous nonvenomous longitudinally-striped viviparous North American and Central American snakes [syn: {grass snake}]
garter stitch
1: a knitting stitch that results in a pattern of horizontal ridges formed by knitting both sides (instead of purling one side)
Gartner's bacillus
1: a form of salmonella that causes gastroenteritis in humans [syn: {Salmonella enteritidis}]
Garuda
1: supernatural half-man and half-bird vehicle or bearer of Vishnu
Garullus garullus
1: fawn-colored jay with black-and-white crest and blue-and-black wings [syn: {common European jay}]
Gary
1: a city in northwest Indiana on Lake Michigan; steel production
Gary Cooper
1: United States film actor noted for his portrayals of strong silent heroes (1901-1961) [syn: {Cooper}, {Frank Cooper}]
Gary Kasparov
1: Azerbaijani chess master who became world champion in 1985 by defeating Anatoli Karpov (born in 1963) [syn: {Kasparov}, {Gary Weinstein}]
Gary Weinstein
1: Azerbaijani chess master who became world champion in 1985 by defeating Anatoli Karpov (born in 1963) [syn: {Kasparov}, {Gary Kasparov}]
gas
1: the state of matter distinguished from the solid and liquid states by: relatively low density and viscosity; relatively great expansion and contraction with changes in pressure and temperature; the...
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