| Definition/Meaning | Word/Phrase |
|---|
| stout tropical swamp fern (especially tropical America) having large fronds with golden yellow sporangia covering the undersides |
Acrostichum aureum
,
golden fern
,
leather fern
|
| stout branching annual with large yellow to orange flower heads; Mexico and Central America |
African marigold
,
Aztec marigold
,
big marigold
,
Tagetes erecta
|
| erect perennial with stout stems and yellow-green flowers; southern Canada and southeastern United States |
Agastache nepetoides
,
yellow giant hyssop
|
| stout erect perennial grass of northern parts of Old World having silky flowering spikes; widely cultivated for pasture and hay; naturalized in North America |
Alopecurus pratensis
,
meadow foxtail
|
| stout staff with a metal point; used by mountain climbers |
alpenstock
|
| whitish hairy plant with featherlike leaves and a few stout stems each bearing an especially handsome solitary large yellow flower head; mountainous regions north central United States |
alpine sunflower
,
Hymenoxys grandiflora
,
old man of the mountain
,
Tetraneuris grandiflora
|
| stout perennial herb of the eastern United States with whitish flowers; leaves traditionally used by Catawba Indians to treat burns |
American feverfew
,
Parthenium integrifolium
,
prairie dock
,
wild quinine
|
| large slow-growing deciduous tree of the eastern United States having stout spreading branches and leaves with usually 7 rounded lobes; yields strong and durable hard wood |
American white oak
,
Quercus alba
|
| any of various tall and stout herbs of the genus Angelica having pinnately compound leaves and small white or greenish flowers in compound umbels |
angelica
,
angelique
|
| any of various tailless stout-bodied amphibians with long hind limbs for leaping; semiaquatic and terrestrial species |
anuran
,
batrachian
,
frog
,
salientian
,
toad
,
toad frog
|
| nocturnal flightless bird of New Zealand having a long neck and stout legs; only surviving representative of the order Apterygiformes |
apteryx
,
kiwi
|
| stout-bodied broad-winged moth with conspicuously striped or spotted wings; larvae are hairy caterpillars |
arctiid
,
arctiid moth
|
| stout Australian shrub with narrow leaves crowded at ends of branches and terminal clusters of white or pink flowers |
Australian grass tree
,
Richea dracophylla
|
| small brightly colored stout-billed tropical bird having short weak wings |
barbet
|
| short stout club used primarily by policemen |
baton
,
billy
,
billy club
,
billystick
,
nightstick
,
truncheon
|
| small blackish stout-bodied biting fly having aquatic larvae; sucks the blood of birds as well as humans and other mammals |
blackfly
,
black fly
,
buffalo gnat
|
| stout length of sawn timber; made in a wide variety of sizes and used for many purposes |
board
,
plank
|
| stout-bodied hairy dipterous fly whose larvae are parasites on humans and other mammals |
botfly
|
| stout hunting knife with a single edge |
Bowie knife
|
| plant grown for its stout stalks of edible small green heads resembling diminutive cabbages |
Brassica oleracea gemmifera
,
brussels sprout
|
