Word Meanings - OYSTER-GREEN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A green membranous seaweed (Ulva) often found growing on oysters but common on stones, piles, etc.

• Greenfinch
  A European finch (Ligurinus chloris); -- called also green bird, green linnet, green grosbeak, green olf, greeny, and peasweep.
• Greenroom
  The retiring room of actors and actresses in a theater.
• Growling
  of Growl
• Stonesmickle
  The stonechat; -- called also stonesmitch.
• Founderies
  of Foundery
• Foundery
  Same as Foundry.
• Greenfish
  See Bluefish, and Pollock.
• Greensand
  A variety of sandstone, usually imperfectly consolidated, consisting largely of glauconite, a silicate of iron and potash of a green color, mixed with sand and a trace of phosphate of lime.
• COMMONSENSE
  See Common sense, under Sense.
• Common sense
  See Common sense, under Sense.
• Foundling
  A deserted or exposed infant; a child found without a parent or owner.
• Greengage
  A kind of plum of medium size, roundish shape, greenish flesh, and delicious flavor. It is called in France Reine Claude, after the queen of Francis I. See Gage.
• Greenshank
  A European sandpiper or snipe (Totanus canescens); -- called also greater plover.
• Growler
  One who growls.
• GREENBROOM
  A plant of the genus Genista (G. tinctoria); dyer's weed; -- called also greenweed.
• Commonty
  A common; a piece of land in which two or more persons have a common right.
• Foundress
  A female founder; a woman who founds or establishes, or who endows with a fund.

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