Soft-bill
noun
1.
any of numerous birds, as thrushes or tanagers, having relatively weak bills suited for eating insects, soft-bodied animals, and fruit rather than hard seeds.
Read Also:
- Softboard
noun 1. a soft, porous particle board.
- Soft-boil
verb (used with object) 1. to boil (an egg) just long enough for the yolk and white to partially solidify, usually three or four minutes.
- Soft-boiled
verb (used with object) 1. to boil (an egg) just long enough for the yolk and white to partially solidify, usually three or four minutes. adjective 1. (of an egg) boiled for a short time so that the yolk is still soft 2. (informal) softhearted
- Sodium-dichromate
or sodium bichromate noun, Chemistry. 1. a red or orange crystalline, water-soluble solid, Na 2 Cr 2 O 7 ⋅2H 2 O, used as an oxidizing agent in the manufacture of dyes and inks, as a corrosion inhibitor, a mordant, a laboratory reagent, in the tanning of leather, and in electroplating. sodium dichromate noun 1. […]
- Sodium-cyanide
noun, Chemistry. 1. a white, crystalline, deliquescent, water-soluble, poisonous powder, NaCN, prepared by heating sodium amide with charcoal: used chiefly in casehardening alloys, in the leaching and flotation of ore, and in electroplating. sodium cyanide noun 1. a white odourless crystalline soluble poisonous compound with an odour of hydrogen cyanide when damp. It is used […]