| Definition/Meaning | Word/Phrase |
|---|
| plant having a large slender white bulb and flat overlapping dark green leaves; used in cooking; believed derived from the wild Allium ampeloprasum |
Allium porrum
,
leek
,
scallion
|
| overlapping stitch made by starting next stitch at middle of preceding one |
backstitch
|
| swelling on a plant stem consisting of overlapping immature leaves or petals |
bud
|
| joint made by fastening ends together without overlapping |
butt
,
butt joint
|
| composition with melody repeated in one or more voices overlapping |
canon
|
| building material of overlapping boards |
clapboard
,
weatherboard
|
| overlapping planks or boards, built with |
clinker-built
,
lapstrake
|
| planks, built of overlapping |
clinker-built
,
lapstrake
|
| design using overlapping pictures, etc. |
collage
,
montage
|
| neckwear worn in a slipknot with long ends overlapping vertically in front |
cravat
|
| jacket having overlapping fronts that give a double thickness of cloth |
double-breasted jacket
|
| circles overlap, area where two overlapping |
eccentric
|
| large greyish-brown edible fungus forming a mass of overlapping caps that somewhat resembles a hen at the base of trees |
Grifola frondosa
,
hen-of-the-woods
,
hen of the woods
,
Polyporus frondosus
|
| overlapping in regular arrangement |
imbricate
|
| diaphragm consisting of thin overlapping plates that can be adjusted to change the diameter of a central opening |
iris
,
iris diaphragm
|
| joint made by overlapping two ends and joining them together |
lap joint
,
splice
|
| overlapping images |
mosaic
|
| creeping evergreen shrub having narrow overlapping leaves and early white star-shaped flowers; of the pine barrens of New Jersey and the Carolinas |
pixie
,
pixy
,
Pyxidanthera barbulata
,
pyxie
|
| bandage of overlapping spirals to immobilize digit or limb |
spica
|
| any of numerous lizards with overlapping ridged pointed scales; of North America and Central America |
spiny lizard
|
