| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun, adjective |
| Definition: | sunny color |
| Synonyms: | amber, bisque, blond, buff, chrome, cream, gold, ivory, lemon, saffron, sand, tawny, xanthous |
| Main Entry: | coward |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who is scared, easily intimidated |
| Synonyms: | alarmist, baby*, caitiff, chicken heart, chicken liver, chicken*, craven, cur, dastard, deserter, faint-of-heart, faintheart, fraidy-cat, funk, gutless, invertebrate, jellyfish, lily liver, malingerer, mouse, pessimist, poltroon, quitter, rabbit, recreant, scaredy cat, shirk, shirker, skulker, sneak, weakling, white liver, wimp*, yellow belly, yellow* |
| Antonyms: | aggressor, hero |
| Main Entry: | milksop |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | coward |
| Synonyms: | baby*, caitiff, chicken heart, chicken liver, chicken*, cry-baby, deserter, fraidy-cat, jellyfish, lily liver, momma's boy, namby-pamby, pansy, pantywaist, quitter, scaredy cat, sissy, weakling, wimp, wuss, wussy, yellow, yellow belly |
| Main Entry: | namby-pamby |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | pansy |
| Synonyms: | baby*, caitiff, chicken heart, chicken liver, chicken*, coward, cry-baby, fraidy-cat, jellyfish, lily liver, milksop, momma's boy, pantywaist, quitter, scaredy cat, sissy, weakling, wimp, wuss, wussy, yellow, yellow belly |
| Main Entry: | vegetable |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | edible part of plant |
| Synonyms: | edible, green, greens, herb, herbaceous plant, legume, produce, root, salad, truck, yellow |
| Notes: | fruit is the name given to those plants which have an ovary used for food; vegetable is the name given to a large category of herbaceous plants with parts used for food |
| Main Entry: | primary color |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | three basic colors |
| Synonyms: | blue, primary, primary pigment, primitive color, red, yellow |
| Concept: | Vegetable. |
| Category: | 1. Vitality; special vitality |
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-nouns
vegetable, vegetable kingdom; flora, verdure., plant; tree, shrub, bush; creeper; herb, herbage; grass., annual; perennial, biennial, triennial; exotic., timber, forest; wood, woodlands; timberland; hurst, frith, holt, weald, park, chase, greenwood, brake, grove, copse, coppice, bocage, tope, clump of trees, thicket, spinet, spinney; underwood, brushwood; scrub; boscage, bosk, ceja, chaparal, motte [U.S.].; arboretum., bush, jungle, prairie; heath, heather; fern, bracken; furze, gorse, whin; grass, turf; pasture, pasturage; turbary; sedge, rush, weed; fungus, mushroom, toadstool; lichen, moss, conferva, mold; growth; alfalfa, alfilaria, banyan; blow, blowth; floret, petiole; pin grass, timothy, yam, yew, zinnia., foliage, branch, bough, ramage, stem, tigella; spray; leaf., flower, blossom, bine; flowering plant; timber tree, fruit tree; pulse, legume.
-adjectives
vegetable, vegetal, vegetive, vegitous; herbaceous, herbal; botanic; sylvan, silvan; arborary, arboreous, arborescent, arborical; woody, grassy; verdant, verdurous; floral, mossy; lignous, ligneous; wooden, leguminous; bosky, cespitose, turf-like, turfy; endogenous, exogenous.
-phrases
"green-robed senators of mighty woods" [Keats]; "this is the forest primeval" [Longfellow].
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