| AK |
abbreviation of "Alaska," a U.S. state on the northwestern coast of North America between the Bering Strait and Canada. |
| Alaska |
a U.S. state on the northwestern coast of North America between the Bering Strait and Canada. (abbr.: AK) |
| alewife1 |
a small fish, related to the herring and resembling the shad, found in North America in the Atlantic Ocean and the Great Lakes. |
| Algonquian |
a family of North American Indian languages spoken by tribes from Labrador to the Carolinas and from the Atlantic coast to the Rocky Mountains. [1/3 definitions] |
| American Indian |
a member of any of the aboriginal peoples of North America, South America, or the West Indies, usu. excepting the Eskimos. |
| American Sign Language |
a language used by many deaf people in North America, made up of hand movements and signs. |
| Apache |
any member of a formerly nomadic North American Indian tribe chiefly inhabiting the southwestern United States and northern Mexico. [1/2 definitions] |
| Aphrodite |
(l.c.) a large brown butterfly with silvery spots, found in North America. [1/2 definitions] |
| Appalachian Mountains |
mountain system in eastern North America extending from southeastern Canada to central Alabama in the United States; Appalachians. |
| appaloosa |
a hardy saddle horse of a breed developed in western North America, usu. having a spotted black and white hide. |
| Arapaho |
a member of a North American Indian tribe that formerly lived in the western plains from Texas and New Mexico to Canada, and now lives in Oklahoma and Wyoming. [1/2 definitions] |
| Baltimore oriole |
an orange and black North American songbird that builds finely woven, pendant nests. |
| bay lynx |
the bobcat of North America. |
| bighorn |
a wild sheep found in the Rocky Mountains of North America, the male of which has large, curved horns. (See Rocky Mountain sheep.) |
| bilberry |
any of several woody wild or cultivated North American plants that produce edible dark blue berries. [1/2 definitions] |
| bison |
a hoofed, shaggy, cud-chewing mammal with a large head and forequarters, short curved horns, and a hump at the shoulders, found in North America; buffalo. [1/2 definitions] |
| bitterroot |
a plant found in western North America that bears showy pink or white flowers and has a fleshy edible root. |
| bittersweet |
a climbing, woody vine found in North America, bearing orange fruit that splits open when ripe to expose red-coated seeds. [1/5 definitions] |
| black bass |
any of several related North American freshwater game fishes. |
| black bear |
a North American bear, smaller than a grizzly bear, with thick black or brown fur. [1/2 definitions] |
| black cohosh |
an eastern North American perennial herb (Cimicifuga racemosa, or Actaea racemosa) of the buttercup family, the rhizome and roots of which are used as an herbal remedy. |