|
Reverse Search
Reverse Search allows you to search within the full text of dictionary entries for words, word parts, and phrases.
Search for entries that contain:
Exact matches of any of the individual words entered in the search box.
Example: Searching for "apple orange" identifies all entries that contain the word "apple" or the word "orange."
Any form of any of the individual words entered in the search box.
Example: Searching for "apple orange" identifies all entries that contain the word "apple" or "apples" or "orange" or "oranges."
Exact matches of all of the individual words entered in the search box.
Example: Searching for "apple orange" identifies all entries that contain the word "apple" and the word "orange."
The exact sequence of words and/or characters entered in the search box (for example, a fragment of a word, a single word, multiple words, or even a phrase containing punctuation)
Example: Searching for "a variety of apple" identifies all entries that contain that phrase. Searching for "app" identifies all entries that contain the letters "app," such as occurrences of "apple," "application," and "apply."
Search within these fields:
Optional:
Limit by part of speech:
almond |
a light tan color resembling that of the flesh of the almond. [1/6 definitions] |
anthropophagus |
a human who eats human flesh; cannibal. |
anthropophagy |
the act of eating human flesh; cannibalism. |
apple |
a firm round fruit with succulent white flesh and a red, green, or yellow skin. [1/3 definitions] |
beef |
the flesh of a cow or steer, or such animals when raised for meat. [1/4 definitions] |
Bermuda onion |
any of several large mild-flavored onions with a white or yellow flesh, grown in Bermuda and the southern United States. |
black eye |
darkening and discoloration of the flesh around the eye, as from a bruise or blow. [1/2 definitions] |
cannibal |
a person who eats human flesh. [1/3 definitions] |
cannibalize |
to eat the flesh of (one's own species). [1/4 definitions] |
cantaloupe |
any of several varieties of melon, esp. muskmelons, usu. having a hard, rough, ridged skin and orange flesh. |
carnal |
of or pertaining to the flesh or body, esp. sexual appetites and activities. [1/2 definitions] |
carnivore |
a flesh-eating animal, esp. a meat-eating mammal. (Cf. herbivore.) [1/2 definitions] |
carnivorous |
flesh-eating. (Cf. herbivorous.) [1/2 definitions] |
carrion |
dead and rotting flesh. [1/3 definitions] |
casaba |
a variety of winter muskmelon with a yellow rind and sweet, white flesh. |
cherry |
the edible fruit of the cherry tree, having a small, hard stone enclosed by yellow, red, or dark purple flesh. [1/5 definitions] |
chinook salmon |
a large salmon of the northern Pacific that has usu. reddish flesh; king salmon. |
coconut |
the seed of the coconut tree, which contains hard, edible flesh and milky liquid. [2/3 definitions] |
copra |
dried coconut flesh, from which oil is removed for use in various products. |
cucumber |
an edible fruit of a creeping vine, usu. long and cylindrical with a hard green skin and greenish white flesh. [1/2 definitions] |
dasyure |
any of various small nocturnal Australian marsupials, including the Tasmanian devil, that eat insects or flesh. |
|
|