edmonton | (n) the capital of the province of Alberta |
edmontonia | (n) heavily armored and highly spiked dinosaur with semi-upright posture |
edmontosaurus | (n) duck-billed dinosaur from Canada found as a fossilized mummy with skin |
edmund i | (n) king of the English who succeeded Athelstan; he drove out the Danes and made peace with Scotland (921-946) |
edmund ii | (n) king of the English who led resistance to Canute but was defeated and forced to divide the kingdom with Canute (980-1016), Syn. Edmund Ironside |
freedman | (n) a person who has been freed from slavery, Syn. freedwoman |
friedman | (n) United States economist noted as a proponent of monetarism and for his opposition to government intervention in the economy (born in 1912), Syn. Milton Friedman |
friedman test | (n) pregnancy test that involves injecting some of the woman's urine into an unmated female rabbit and later examining the ovaries of the rabbit; presence of corpora lutea indicates that the woman is pregnant, Syn. rabbit test |
genus edmontosaurus | (n) duck-billed dinosaurs of Canada |
piedmont | (n) the plateau between the coastal plain and the Appalachian Mountains: parts of Virginia and North and South Carolina and Georgia and Alabama |
piedmont | (n) a gentle slope leading from the base of a mountain to a region of flat land |
piedmont | (n) the region of northwestern Italy; includes the Po valley, Syn. Piemonte |
piedmont glacier | (n) a type of glaciation characteristic of Alaska; large valley glaciers meet to form an almost stagnant sheet of ice, Syn. Piedmont type of glacier |
burke | (n) British statesman famous for his oratory; pleaded the cause of the American colonists in British Parliament and defended the parliamentary system (1729-1797), Syn. Edmund Burke |
cartwright | (n) English clergyman who invented the power loom (1743-1823), Syn. Edmund Cartwright |
cat's-tail | (n) tall marsh plant with cylindrical seed heads that explode when mature shedding large quantities of down; its long flat leaves are used for making mats and chair seats; of North America, Europe, Asia and North Africa, Syn. reedmace, nailrod, bullrush, reed mace, Typha latifolia, bulrush |
genet | (n) French diplomat who in 1793 tried to draw the United States into the war between France and England (1763-1834), Syn. Citizen Genet, Edmund Charles Edouard Genet |
goncourt | (n) French writer who collaborated with his brother Jules de Goncourt on many books and who in his will established the Prix Goncourt (1822-1896), Syn. Edmond de Goncourt, Edmond Louis Antoine Huot de Goncourt |
halley | (n) English astronomer who used Newton's laws of motion to predict the period of a comet (1656-1742), Syn. Edmund Halley, Edmond Halley |
hillary | (n) New Zealand mountaineer who in 1953 first attained the summit of Mount Everest with his Sherpa guide Tenzing Norgay (born in 1919), Syn. Sir Edmund Percival Hillary, Edmund Hillary, Sir Edmund Hillary |
hoyle | (n) English writer on card games (1672-1769), Syn. Edmond Hoyle |
husserl | (n) German philosopher who developed phenomenology (1859-1938), Syn. Edmund Husserl |
kean | (n) English actor noted for his portrayals of Shakespeare's great tragic characters (1789-1833), Syn. Edmund Kean |
lesser bullrush | (n) reed maces of America, Europe, North Africa, Asia, Syn. narrow-leaved reedmace, soft flag, narrow-leaf cattail, Typha angustifolia |
malone | (n) English scholar remembered for his chronology of Shakespeare's plays and his editions of Shakespeare and Dryden (1741-1812), Syn. Edmund Malone, Edmond Malone |
red maids | (n) succulent carpet-forming plant having small brilliant reddish-pink flowers; southwestern United States, Syn. redmaids, Calandrinia ciliata |
rostand | (n) French dramatist and poet whose play immortalized Cyrano de Bergerac (1868-1918), Syn. Edmond Rostand |
scripps | (n) United States newspaper publisher and half-brother of Edward Wyllis Scripps (1835-1908), Syn. James Edmund Scripps |
seedsman | (n) a dealer in seeds, Syn. seedman |
spenser | (n) English poet who wrote an allegorical romance celebrating Elizabeth I in the Spenserian stanza (1552-1599), Syn. Edmund Spenser |
synge | (n) Irish poet and playwright whose plays are based on rural Irish life (1871-1909), Syn. Edmund John Millington Synge, John Millington Synge, J. M. Synge |
wilson | (n) United States literary critic (1895-1972), Syn. Edmund Wilson |