dusky-footed woodrat | (n) host to Lyme disease tick (Ixodes pacificus) in northern California, Syn. Neotoma fuscipes |
dyer's woodruff | (n) creeping European perennial having red or pinkish-white flowers and red roots sometimes used as a substitute for madder in dyeing, Syn. Asperula tinctoria |
eastern woodrat | (n) large greyish-brown wood rat of the southeastern United States, Syn. Neotoma floridana |
sweet woodruff | (n) Old World fragrant stoloniferous perennial having small white flowers and narrow leaves used as flavoring and in sachets; widely cultivated as a ground cover; in some classifications placed in genus Asperula, Syn. Galium odoratum, fragrant bedstraw, waldmeister, woodruff, Asperula odorata |
sweet woodruff | (n) fragrant dark green leaves used to flavor May wine, Syn. waldmeister |
woodruff | (n) any plant of the genus Asperula |
guthrie | (n) United States folk singer and songwriter (1912-1967), Syn. Woody Guthrie, Woodrow Wilson Guthrie |
herman | (n) United States jazz musician and bandleader (1913-1987), Syn. Woody Herman, Woodrow Charles Herman |
packrat | (n) any of several bushy-tailed rodents of the genus Neotoma of western North America; hoards food and other objects, Syn. pack rat, trade rat, bushytail woodrat, Neotoma cinerea |
wilson | (n) United States physicist honored for his work on cosmic microwave radiation (born in 1918), Syn. Robert Woodrow Wilson |
wilson | (n) 28th President of the United States; led the United States in World War I and secured the formation of the League of Nations (1856-1924), Syn. Thomas Woodrow Wilson, Woodrow Wilson, President Wilson |