virginia : Idioms & Phrases


adeline virginia stephen woolf

  • noun English author whose work used such techniques as stream of consciousness and the interior monologue; prominent member of the Bloomsbury Group (1882-1941)
    Woolf; Adeline Virginia Stephen Woolf.
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capital of virginia

  • noun capital of the state of Virginia located in the east central part of the state; was capital of the Confederacy during the American Civil War
    Richmond.
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capital of west virginia

  • noun state capital of West Virginia in the central part of the state on the Kanawha river
    Charleston.
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university of west virginia

  • noun a university in Morgantown, West Virginia
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virginia beach

  • noun the largest city in Virginia; long overshadowed by Norfolk but growing rapidly since 1970; with 28 miles of public beaches tourism is a major factor in the economy; site of three United States Navy bases
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virginia bluebell

  • noun smooth erect herb of eastern North America having entire leaves and showy blue flowers that are pink in bud
    Mertensia virginica; Virginia bluebell.
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virginia chain fern

  • noun North American fern
    Woodwardia virginica.
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Virginia cowslip

  • noun smooth erect herb of eastern North America having entire leaves and showy blue flowers that are pink in bud
    Mertensia virginica; Virginia bluebell.
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  • (Bot.), the American lungwort (Mertensia Virginica).
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Virginia creeper

  • noun common North American vine with compound leaves and bluish-black berrylike fruit
    Parthenocissus quinquefolia; woodbine; American ivy.
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  • (Bot.), a common ornamental North American woody vine (Ampelopsis quinquefolia), climbing extensively by means of tendrils; called also woodbine, and American ivy. U.S.
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virginia crownbeard

  • noun tall perennial herb having clusters of white flowers; the eastern United States
    Verbesina virginica; frost-weed; frostweed.
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virginia deer

  • noun common North American deer; tail has a white underside
    Odocoileus Virginianus; white tail; white-tailed deer; whitetail; whitetail deer.
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Virginia fence

  • noun rail fence consisting of a zigzag of interlocking rails
    snake fence; snake-rail fence; worm fence.
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  • . See Worm fence, under Fence.
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virginia ham

  • noun a lean hickory-smoked ham; has dark red meat
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virginia katherine mcmath

  • noun United States dancer and film actress who partnered with Fred Astaire (1911-1995)
    Ginger Rogers; Rogers; Virginia Katherine McMath.
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virginia mallow

  • noun tall handsome perennial herb of southeastern United States having maplelike leaves and white flowers
    Sida hermaphrodita.
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virginia mcmath

  • noun United States dancer and film actress who partnered with Fred Astaire (1911-1995)
    Ginger Rogers; Rogers; Virginia Katherine McMath.
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Virginia nightingale

  • (Zoöl.), the cardinal bird. See under Cardinal.
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virginia oyster

  • noun common edible oyster of Atlantic coast of North America
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virginia pine

  • noun common small shrubby pine of the eastern United States having straggling often twisted or branches and short needles in bunches of 2
    Jersey pine; scrub pine; Pinus virginiana.
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Virginia quail

  • (Zoöl.), the bobwhite.
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Virginia reel

  • noun an American country dance which starts with the couples facing each other in two lines
    reel.
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  • an old English contradance; so called in the United States. Bartlett.
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virginia serpentaria

  • noun birthwort of the eastern United States woodlands
    Virginia serpentaria; Virginia serpentary; Aristolochia serpentaria.
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virginia serpentary

  • noun birthwort of the eastern United States woodlands
    Virginia serpentaria; Virginia serpentary; Aristolochia serpentaria.
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virginia snakeroot

  • noun birthwort of the eastern United States woodlands
    Virginia serpentaria; Virginia serpentary; Aristolochia serpentaria.
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virginia spring beauty

  • noun small cormous perennial grown for its low rosette of succulent foliage and racemes of pink-tinged white flowers; eastern North America
    Claytonia virginica.
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Virginia stock

  • noun erect branching herb cultivated for its loose racemes of fragrant white or pink or red or lilac flowers; native to sands and sea cliffs of southwestern Greece and southern Albania
    Virginian stock; Malcolmia maritima.
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  • . (Bot.) See Mahon stock.
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virginia strawberry

  • noun North American wild strawberry with sweet scarlet fruit; a source of many cultivated strawberries
    scarlet strawberry; Fragaria virginiana.
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virginia thimbleweed

  • noun thimbleweed of central and eastern North America
    Anemone virginiana.
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virginia wade

  • noun English tennis player who won many women's singles titles (born in 1945)
    Wade.
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virginia waterleaf

  • noun showy perennial herb with white flowers; leaves sometimes used as edible greens in southeastern United States
    John's cabbage; Shawnee salad; Hydrophyllum virginianum; Indian salad; shawny.
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virginia woolf

  • noun English author whose work used such techniques as stream of consciousness and the interior monologue; prominent member of the Bloomsbury Group (1882-1941)
    Woolf; Adeline Virginia Stephen Woolf.
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west virginia

  • noun a state in east central United States
    WV; Mountain State.
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