| Definition/Meaning | Word/Phrase |
|---|
| European plant naturalized in North America; often collected from the wild as a potherb |
allgood
,
Chenopodium bonus-henricus
,
fat hen
,
good-king-henry
,
wild spinach
|
| collected literary excerpts |
analects
|
| supplementary material that is collected and appended at the back of a book |
appendix
|
| large white mushroom that develops brown stains as it ages; gills are white; odor is spicy and aromatic; collected commercially for oriental cooking the Pacific Northwest |
Armillaria ponderosa
,
white matsutake
|
| bin that holds rubbish until it is collected |
ash-bin
,
ashbin
,
ash bin
,
ashcan
,
dustbin
,
garbage can
,
trash barrel
,
trash bin
,
trash can
,
wastebin
|
| Hungarian composer and pianist who collected Hungarian folk music; in 1940 he moved to the United States (1881-1945) |
Bartok
,
Bela Bartok
|
| number of a letter box at the post office where mail is collected |
box number
,
PO Box No
,
PO box number
,
post-office box number
|
| structure in which water is collected |
catchment
|
| crater that has collected cosmic material hitting the earth |
collector
|
| fee for services rendered based on a percentage of an amount received or collected or agreed to be paid (as distinguished from a salary) |
commission
|
| Chinese philosopher whose ideas and sayings were collected after his death and became the basis of a philosophical doctrine known a Confucianism (circa 551-478 BC) |
Confucius
,
K'ung Futzu
,
Kongfuze
,
Kong the Master
|
| assemblage of people or animals or things collected together |
congregation
|
| money collected under a tariff |
custom
,
customs
,
customs duty
,
impost
|
| government building where customs are collected and where ships are cleared to enter or leave the country |
customhouse
,
customshouse
|
| edible leaves of the common dandelion collected from the wild; used in salads and in making wine |
dandelion green
|
| somewhere (away from a studio or office or library or laboratory) where practical work is done or data is collected |
field
|
| first compartment of the stomach of a ruminant; here food is collected and returned to the mouth as cud for chewing |
first stomach
,
rumen
|
| United States composer (born in Australia) who lived in London and collected English folk songs (1882-1961) |
George Percy Aldridge Grainger
,
Grainger
,
Percy Aldridge Grainger
,
Percy Grainger
|
| French writer who collected Aesop's fables and published them (1621-1695) |
Jean de La Fontaine
,
La Fontaine
|
| field where junk is collected and stored for resale |
junkyard
|
