|
|
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:
| acuminate |
tapering to a sharp point, as a leaf or claw; pointed. [1/2 definitions] |
| areola |
a small space between cells and fibers in connective tissue, as among small veins in a leaf. [1/2 definitions] |
| articulation |
a joint, such as one between bones or between a branch and the point of attachment of a leaf. [1/5 definitions] |
| arum |
any of a family of plants, such as jack-in-the-pulpit, with arrow-shaped leaves and bearing a flower, at the tip of a long spike, that is enclosed by a hoodlike leaf. [1/2 definitions] |
| ascidium |
a saclike or pitcherlike part of a plant, such as the leaf of the bladderwort or pitcher plant. |
| axil |
the upper angle between a leaf, flower, twig, or the like, and the stem or branch from which it grows. |
| bay leaf |
the dried leaf of one of two plants of the laurel family, used to season foods. |
| bay rum |
a fragrant liquid made from bay leaves and rum or bay leaf oil mixed with alcohol and water, used esp. in toiletries. |
| betel |
the dried leaf of this plant, chewed with the betel nut as a stimulant or narcotic. [1/2 definitions] |
| blade |
a plant leaf. [1/6 definitions] |
| cabbage palm |
any of several palms that have edible leaf buds. |
| carpel |
the female organ of a flower, consisting of a modified leaf that forms a single pistil or one member of a compound pistil, in which the seeds mature. |
| cloverleaf |
a set of interchange roads, patterned like a four-leaf clover, at the intersection of two highways that are on different levels. [2 definitions] |
| complicate |
in biology, folded lengthwise several times, as an insect wing or a leaf. [1/3 definitions] |
| compound leaf |
a leaf composed of two or more leaflets on a single stalk. |
| diadromous |
veined in a fanlike pattern, as a leaf. [1/2 definitions] |
| digitate |
having parts that are like fingers or toes, as a leaf. [1/2 definitions] |
| dimorphism |
the existence within a single organism of two different forms of the same part, such as two different forms of leaf in the same plant. [1/3 definitions] |
| dolma |
a dish consisting of a vegetable such as a green pepper or grape or cabbage leaf, stuffed with rice, ground meat, and spices, and cooked. |
| dorsal |
in botany, of, upon, or related to the outer surface, the underside, or away from the center or axis, as of a leaf. [1/2 definitions] |
| Dutch metal |
an alloy of copper and zinc, thin sheets of which resemble gold leaf. |
|
|