(Bot.) a plant of the genus Veratrum ( Veratrum album) See Hellebore, 2.Ī fresh, or unsmoked, herring, as distinguished from a red, or cured, herring. The temperature at which bodies become incandescent, and appear white from the bright light which they emit. These grubs eat the roots of grasses and other plants, and often do much damage. (Zool.) the larva of the June bug and other allied species. (Bot.) an American grass ( Leersia Virginica) with greenish-white paleæ. (Bot.) a name given to several coniferous trees of the Pacific States, as Abies grandis, and Abies concolor. See To show the white feather, under Feather, n. (Bot.) a majestic tree of North America ( Ulmus Americana), the timber of which is much used for hubs of wheels, and for other purposes.Ī mark or symbol of cowardice. (Zool.) a whitish, or albino, variety of the Asiatic elephant. (Bot.) a variety of the common red currant, having white berries.Ī kind of poisonous gas encountered in coal mines. (Zool.) an ornamental branched coral ( Amphihelia oculata) native of the Mediterranean.Ī crop of grain which loses its green color, or becomes white, in ripening, as wheat, rye, barley, and oats, as distinguished from a green crop, or a root crop. (Min.) a native hydrous sulphate of iron coquimbite. See also under Clover.Ī whitish alloy of copper. It furnishes excellent food for cattle and horses, as well as for the honeybee. (Bot.) a species of small perennial clover bearing white flowers. Bursera altissima) whose fragrant wood is used for canoes and cabinetwork, as it is not attacked by insect. The white cedar of Demerara, Guiana, etc., is a lofty tree ( Icica altissima syn. In California the name is given to the Libocedrus decurrens, the timber of which is also useful, though often subject to dry rot. Both are much valued for their durable timber. (Bot.) an evergreen tree of North America ( Thuja occidentalis), also the related Cupressus thyoides, or Chamæcyparis sphæroidea, a slender evergreen conifer which grows in the so-called cedar swamps of the Northern and Atlantic States. Their actions resembled those of the Ku Klux Klan in some ways but they were not formally affiliated with the Klan, and their victims were often not black. The members of a secret organization in various of the United States, who attempt to drive away or reform obnoxious persons by lynch-law methods. (Bot.) A kind of catchfly ( Silene stellata) with white flowers.Ī white-flowered Lychnis ( Lychnis vespertina). (Zool.) a fresh-water North American bass ( Roccus chrysops) found in the Great Likes. (Chem.) arsenious oxide, As2O3, a substance of a white color, and vitreous adamantine luster, having an astringent, sweetish taste. They feed upon animal and vegetable substances of various kinds, including timber, and are often very destructive to buildings and furniture. In their social habits they closely resemble the true ants. Many of the species construct large and complicated nests, sometimes in the form of domelike structures rising several feet above the ground and connected with extensive subterranean galleries and chambers. These insects are very abundant in tropical countries, and form large and complex communities consisting of numerous asexual workers of one or more kinds, of large-headed asexual individuals called soldiers, of one or more queens ( or fertile females) often having the body enormously distended by the eggs, and, at certain seasons of numerous winged males, together with the larvæ and pupæ of each kind in various stages of development. (Zool.) any one of numerous species of social pseudoneuropterous insects of the genus Termes. (Bot.) See Sweet pepper bush, under Pepper.
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