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| bleach |
to make white or lighter in color by using a chemical or sunlight. [1/3 definitions] |
| burn |
to injure or damage by excessive exposure to heat, as from flame or sunlight. [1/14 definitions] |
| chlorophyll |
the green matter in the leaves and stems of plants that is necessary to produce food for plants from sunlight. |
| dry off |
to become free of wetness due to exposure to heat, sunlight, or the like. [1/2 definitions] |
| etiolate |
to keep (a plant or the like) a light color by preventing exposure to sunlight; blanch; bleach. [2/3 definitions] |
| euphotic |
of or characterizing the upper layer of a body of water that receives enough sunlight to allow the growth of green plants. |
| first quarter |
the phase of the moon's reflection of sunlight that occurs when the right half of the moon, as seen from the Northern Hemisphere, is radiant, about one week after the new moon. |
| freckle |
a light brown dot or mark in the skin, often brought out by exposure to sunlight. |
| fungus |
one of a large group of living things that appear similar to plants but cannot make their own food using sunlight in the way plants do. Fungi consume plant, animal, and other living matter. Mushrooms, yeasts, and molds are fungi. Fungi help decompose dead plants and animals. |
| heliotaxis |
the movement of a freely moving organism toward or away from sunlight. |
| heliotropism |
the tendency to turn toward or away from light, esp. sunlight, as in a sunflower. |
| hyperborean |
(cap.) in Greek mythology, one of a people said to live in eternal sunlight in a land beyond the north wind. [1/4 definitions] |
| insolate |
to treat by exposing to sunlight, as for drying or bleaching. |
| insolation |
exposure to sunlight, as for drying, bleaching, or other treatment. [1/3 definitions] |
| naturopathy |
a method of treating illness without drugs, relying on massage, sunlight, proper food, and the like. |
| nuclear winter |
a hypothesized result of a major nuclear war, wherein massive cloud covers of dust and smoke would block out sunlight, lowering the earth's temperature and destroying most living things. |
| parch |
to make very dry, as by sunlight or the application of heat. [1/3 definitions] |
| parhelion |
an image of the sun that appears as a bright spot near the sun and is caused by sunlight passing through ice crystals in the upper atmosphere; sundog. |
| Phoibos Apollo |
Apollo, in his capacity as the god of sunlight. |
| photosynthesis |
the process by which a green plant uses sunlight to change water and carbon dioxide into food for itself. |
| plant |
one of a large group of living things that use sunlight to make their own food. Most plants have leaves, stems, roots and either flowers or cones. Plants use a green pigment called chlorophyll to absorb energy from sunlight. Grasses, trees, vines, vegetables, cactuses, ferns and mosses are plants. [1/5 definitions] |
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