miner : Idioms & Phrases


birch leaf miner

  • noun small black sawfly native to Europe but established in eastern United States; larvae mine the leaves of birches causing serious defoliation
    Fenusa pusilla.
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coal miner

  • noun someone who works in a coal mine
    collier; pitman.
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coal miner's lung

  • noun lung disease caused by inhaling coal dust
    anthracosis; black lung disease; black lung.
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gold miner

  • noun a miner who digs or pans for gold in a gold field
    gold panner; gold digger.
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Leaf miner

  • noun any of various small moths or dipterous flies whose larvae burrow into and feed on leaf tissue especially of the family Gracilariidae
    leaf miner.
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  • (Zoöl.), any one of various small lepidopterous and dipterous insects, which, in the larval stages, burrow in and eat the parenchyma of leaves; as, the pear-tree leaf miner (Lithocolletis geminatella).
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leaf-miner

  • noun any of various small moths or dipterous flies whose larvae burrow into and feed on leaf tissue especially of the family Gracilariidae
    leaf miner.
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miner's cat

  • noun raccoon-like omnivorous mammal of Mexico and the southwestern United States having a long bushy tail with black and white rings
    cacomixle; bassarisk; coon cat; ring-tailed cat; civet cat; cacomistle; Bassariscus astutus; ringtail; raccoon fox.
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Miner's elbow

  • (Med.), a swelling on the black of the elbow due to inflammation of the bursa over the olecranon; so called because of frequent occurrence in miners.
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Miner's inch

  • in hydraulic mining, the amount of water flowing under a given pressure in a given time through a hole one inch in diameter. It is a unit for measuring the quantity of water supplied.
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miner's lettuce

  • noun succulent herb sometimes grown as a salad or pot herb; grows on dunes and waste ground of Pacific coast of North America
    Montia perfoliata; winter purslane; Cuban spinach.
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placer miner

  • noun a miner who extracts minerals from a placer by washing or dredging
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strip miner

  • noun a miner who does strip mining
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