beard : Idioms & Phrases

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Beard grass

  • (Bot.), a coarse, perennial grass of different species of the genus Andropogon.
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beard lichen

  • noun greenish grey pendulous lichen growing on trees
    Usnea barbata; beard lichen.
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beard moss

  • noun greenish grey pendulous lichen growing on trees
    Usnea barbata; beard lichen.
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beard worm

  • noun slender animal with tentacles and a tubelike outer covering; lives on the deep ocean bottom
    pogonophoran.
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bearded darnel

  • noun weedy annual grass often occurs in grainfields and other cultivated land; seeds sometimes considered poisonous
    darnel; cheat; Lolium temulentum; tare.
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bearded iris

  • noun any of numerous wild or cultivated irises with hairlike structures on the falls (the drooping sepals)
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bearded seal

  • noun medium-sized greyish to yellow seal with bristles each side of muzzle; of the Arctic Ocean
    Erignathus barbatus; squareflipper square flipper.
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bearded vulture

  • noun the largest Eurasian bird of prey; having black feathers hanging around the bill
    lammergeier; Gypaetus barbatus; lammergeyer.
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bearded wheatgrass

  • noun a wheatgrass with straight terminal awns on the flowering glumes
    Agropyron subsecundum.
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broom beard grass

  • noun handsome hardy North American grass with foliage turning pale bronze in autumn
    Schizachyrium scoparium; wire grass; prairie grass; Andropogon scoparius.
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crown beard

  • noun any plant of the genus Verbesina having clustered white or yellow flower heads
    crown beard; crownbeard.
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crown-beard

  • noun any plant of the genus Verbesina having clustered white or yellow flower heads
    crown beard; crownbeard.
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Goat's beard

  • (Bot.), a plant of the genus Tragopogon; so named from the long silky beard of the seeds. One species is the salsify or oyster plant.
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golden crown beard

  • noun coarse greyish-green annual yellow-flowered herb; southwestern United States to Mexico
    Ximenesia encelioides; golden crownbeard; Verbesina encelioides; cowpen daisy; butter daisy.
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golden-beard penstemon

  • noun plant of southwestern United States having long open clusters of scarlet flowers with yellow hairs on lower lip
    Penstemon barbatus.
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hawk's-beard

  • noun any of various plants of the genus Crepis having loose heads of yellow flowers on top of a long branched leafy stem; northern hemisphere
    hawk's-beard.
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hawk's-beards

  • noun any of various plants of the genus Crepis having loose heads of yellow flowers on top of a long branched leafy stem; northern hemisphere
    hawk's-beard.
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imperial beard

  • noun a small tufted beard worn by Emperor Napoleon III
    imperial.
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Jupiter's beard

  • noun silvery hairy European shrub with evergreen foliage and pale yellow flowers
    silver-bush; Anthyllis barba-jovis; silverbush.
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  • . (Bot.) (a) A South European herb, with cymes of small red blossoms (Centranthus ruber) . (b) The houseleek (Sempervivum tectorum); so called from its massive inflorescence, like the sculptured beard of Jove . Prior. (c) the cloverlike Anthyllis Barba-Jovis.
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lion's beard

  • noun short hairy perennial with early spring blue-violet or lilac flowers; North America and Siberia
    wild crocus; Eastern pasque flower; blue tulip; Pulsatilla patens; American pasqueflower; prairie anemone; American pulsatilla; Anemone ludoviciana.
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long-beard

  • noun a stoneware drinking jug with a long neck; decorated with a caricature of Cardinal Bellarmine (17th century)
    longbeard; greybeard; bellarmine.
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Old man's beard

  • noun dense festoons of greenish-grey hairlike flexuous strands anchored to tree trunks and branches by sparse wiry roots; southeastern United States and West Indies to South America
    black moss; Spanish moss; long moss; Tillandsia usneoides.
  • noun vigorous deciduous climber of Europe to Afghanistan and Lebanon having panicles of fragrant green-white flowers in summer and autumn
    Clematis vitalba; traveller's joy; traveler's joy.
  • noun common climber of eastern North America that sprawls over other plants and bears numerous panicles of small creamy white flowers
    devil's darning needle; Clematis virginiana; virgin's bower.
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  • . (Bot.) (a) The traveler's joy (Clematis Vitalba). So named from the abundant long feathery awns of its fruit. (b) The Tillandsia usneoides. See Tillandsia.
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Red beard

  • (Zoöl.), a bright red sponge (Microciona prolifera), common on oyster shells and stones. Local, U.S.
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Sheep's beard

  • (Bot.), a cichoraceous herb (Urospermum Dalechampii) of Southern Europe; so called from the conspicuous pappus of the achenes.
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To one's beard

  • to one's face; in open defiance.
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Turkey beard

  • (Bot.), a name of certain American perennial liliaceous herbs of the genus Xerophyllum. They have a dense tuft of hard, narrowly linear radical leaves, and a long raceme of small whitish flowers. Also called turkey's beard.
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vandyke beard

  • noun a short pointed beard (named after the artist Anthony Vandyke)
    vandyke.
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