bastard : Idioms & Phrases
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Bastard ashlar
(Arch.) , stones for ashlar work, roughly squared at the quarry.
Webster 1913
bastard feverfew
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noun tropical American annual weed with small radiate heads of white flowers; adventive in southern United States
Parthenium hysterophorus.
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Bastard file
- a file intermediate between the coarsest and the second cut.
Webster 1913
bastard indigo
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noun East Indian shrub
Tephrosia purpurea.
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noun dense shrub of moist riverbanks and flood plains of the eastern United States having attractive fragrant foliage and dense racemes of dark purple flowers
Amorpha fruticosa; false indigo.
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noun an erect to spreading hairy shrub of the Pacific coast of the United States having racemes of red to indigo flowers
false indigo; Amorpha californica.
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bastard lignum vitae
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noun small evergreen tree of the southern United States and West Indies a source of lignum vitae wood
Guaiacum sanctum.
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bastard pennyroyal
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noun aromatic plant of the eastern United States
Trichostema dichotomum.
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bastard pimpernel
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noun weedy plant having short dry chafflike leaves
chaffweed; false pimpernel.
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bastard ridley
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noun grey sea turtle of the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts of North America
Atlantic ridley; Lepidochelys kempii; bastard ridley.
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bastard title
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noun a first page of some books displaying only the title of the book
half title.
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bastard toadflax
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noun woody creeping parasite of western North America having numerous thick powdery leaves and panicles of small dull-white flowers
Comandra pallida.
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bastard turtle
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noun grey sea turtle of the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts of North America
Atlantic ridley; Lepidochelys kempii; bastard ridley.
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Bastard type
(Print.) , type having the face of a larger or a smaller size than the body; e.g., a nonpareil face on a brevier body.
Webster 1913
Bastard wing
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noun tuft of small stiff feathers on the first digit of a bird's wing
alula; spurious wing.
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(Zoöl.) , three to five quill feathers on a small joint corresponding to the thumb in some mam malia; the alula.
Webster 1913
bastard yellowwood
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noun medium-sized tree of South Africa
common yellowwood; Afrocarpus falcata.
