upland : Idioms & Phrases

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upland cotton

  • noun native tropical American plant now cultivated in the United States yielding short-staple cotton
    Gossypium hirsutum.
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Upland moccasin

  • . (Zoöl.) See Moccasin.
Webster 1913

upland plover

  • noun large plover-like sandpiper of North American fields and uplands
    upland plover; Bartramian sandpiper; Bartramia longicauda.
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upland sandpiper

  • noun large plover-like sandpiper of North American fields and uplands
    upland plover; Bartramian sandpiper; Bartramia longicauda.
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Upland sandpiper, ∨ Upland plover

  • (Zoöl.), a large American sandpiper (Bartramia longicauda) much valued as a game bird. Unlike most sandpipers, it frequents fields and uplands. Called also Bartramian sandpiper, Bartram's tattler, field plover, grass plover, highland plover, hillbird, humility, prairie plover, prairie pigeon, prairie snipe, papabote, quaily, and uplander.
Webster 1913

Upland sumach

  • (Bot.), a North American shrub of the genus Rhus (Rhus glabra), used in tanning and dyeing.
Webster 1913

upland white aster

  • noun tufted rigid North American perennial with loose clusters of white flowers
    Aster ptarmicoides.
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