Amadous
a spongy substance prepared from fungi, polyporus (fomes) fomentarius and allied species, growing on trees, used as tinder and in surgery.
noun
a spongy substance made from certain fungi, such as polyporus (or fomes) fomentarius and related species, used as tinder to light fires, in medicine to stop bleeding, and, esp formerly, by anglers to dry off dry flies between casts
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- Amaranthine
of or like the . unfading; everlasting: a woman of amaranthine loveliness. of purplish-red color. historical examples it made him jealous to imagine them lost in this amaranthine profundity. sinister street, vol. 2 compton mackenzie on the sculptor’s side, the amaranthine flower was already in full blow. the marble faun, volume ii. nathaniel hawthorne could […]
- Amarelle
any variety of the sour cherry, prunus cerasus, having colorless juice. historical examples despite the derivation of the name amarelle, they have less bitterness than the other group of varieties of the sour cherry. the cherries of new york u. p. hedrick both belong to prunus cerasus and as we gather rather better elsewhere than […]
- Amaretti
an italian liqueur with a slightly bitter almond flavor. plural noun italian almond biscuits noun an italian liqueur with a flavour of almonds italian almond-flavored liqueur, 1945 (the original brand, amaretto di saronno, dates to 1851), from the italian word for almond (q.v.), which did not acquire the excrescent -l- of the english word. sometimes […]
- Amarillo
a city in nw texas. contemporary examples and so, to survive, she started showing up at the amarillo resource center food bank, in the windswept texas panhandle. the new blue-collar hungry sasha abramsky november 17, 2009 the smiths’ 1,800-acre spread, the sunshine ranch, sits about 15 miles east of amarillo. the texas drought seen firsthand […]