drum sander | (n) a power tool used for sanding wood; an endless loop of sandpaper is moved at high speed by an electric motor, Syn. smoother, electric sander, sander |
goosander | (n) common merganser of Europe and North America, Syn. Mergus merganser |
lysander | (n) Spartan general who defeated the Athenians in the final battle of the Peloponnesian War (died in 395 BC) |
mosander | (n) Swedish chemist who discovered rare earth elements (1797-1858), Syn. Carl Gustaf Mossander |
sanderling | (n) small sandpiper that breeds in the Arctic and migrates southward along sandy coasts in most of world, Syn. Crocethia alba |
haldane | (n) Scottish geneticist (son of John Haldane) who contributed to the development of population genetics; a popularizer of science and a Marxist (1892-1964), Syn. John Burdon Sanderson Haldane, J. B. S. Haldane |
haldane | (n) Scottish writer and sister of Richard Haldane and John Haldane (1862-1937), Syn. Elizabeth Haldane, Elizabeth Sanderson Haldane |
peirce | (n) United States philosopher and logician; pioneer of pragmatism (1839-1914), Syn. Charles Peirce, Charles Sanders Peirce |
red sandalwood | (n) tree of India and East Indies yielding a hard fragrant timber prized for cabinetwork and dark red heartwood used as a dyewood, Syn. red sanderswood, red saunders, Pterocarpus santalinus, red sanders |
watermelon begonia | (n) grown as a houseplant for its silvery striped fleshy foliage; South America, Syn. Peperomia argyreia, Peperomia sandersii |
Alisanders | n. [ OE. alisaundre, OF. alissandere, fr. Alexander or Alexandria. ] (Bot) A name given to two species of the genus Smyrnium, formerly cultivated and used as celery now is; -- called also horse parsely. [ 1913 Webster ] Variants: Alexanders |
Goosander | n. [ OE. gossander, a tautological word formed fr. goose + gander. Cf. Merganser. ] (Zool.) A species of merganser (M. merganser) of Northern Europe and America; -- called also merganser, dundiver, sawbill, sawneb, shelduck, and sheldrake. See Merganser. [ 1913 Webster ] |
Palissander | n. [ F. palissandre. ] (Bot.) (a) Violet wood. (b) Rosewood. [ 1913 Webster ] |
Sanderling | n. [ Sand + -ling. So called because it obtains its food by searching the moist sands of the seashore. ] (Zool.) A small gray and brown sandpiper (Calidris arenaria) very common on sandy beaches in America, Europe, and Asia. Called also curwillet, sand lark, stint, and ruddy plover. [ 1913 Webster ] |
Sanders | n. [ See Sandal. ] An old name of sandalwood, now applied only to the red sandalwood. See under Sandalwood. [ 1913 Webster ] |
Sanders-blue | n. See Saunders-blue. [ 1913 Webster ] |