Found 2 hits - Term: moon trefoil, Database: *, Strategy: prefix
- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
moon \moon\ m=oon, n. oe. mone, as. m=ona; akin to d.
maan, os. ohg. m=ano, g. mond, icel. m=ani, dan. maane,
sw. mane, goth. m=ena, lith. menu, l. mensis month,
gr. mh`nh moon, mh`n month, skr. m=as moon, month; prob.
from a root meaning to measure cf. skr. m=a to measure,
from its serving to measure the time. root271. cf. mete
to measure, menses, monday, month.
1. the celestial orb which revolves round the earth; the
satellite of the earth; a secondary planet, whose light,
borrowed from the sun, is reflected to the earth, and
serves to dispel the darkness of night. the diameter of
the moon is 2,160 miles, its mean distance from the earth
is 240,000 miles, and its mass is one eightieth that of
the earth. see lunar month, under month.
1913 webster
the crescent moon, the diadem of night. --cowper.
1913 webster
2. a secondary planet, or satellite, revolving about any
member of the solar system; as, the moons of jupiter or
saturn.
1913 webster
3. the time occupied by the moon in making one revolution in
her orbit; a month; as, it's been many moons since i last
visited washington. --shak.
1913 webster
4. fort. a crescentlike outwork. see half-moon.
1913 webster
5. the deliberately exposed naked buttocks. slang
pjc
moon blindness.
a far. a kind of ophthalmia liable to recur at
intervals of three or four weeks.
b med. hemeralopia.
moon dial, a dial used to indicate time by moonlight.
moon face, a round face like a full moon.
moon madness, lunacy. poetic
moon month, a lunar month.
moon trefoil bot., a shrubby species of medic medicago
arborea. see medic.
moon year, a lunar year, consisting of lunar months, being
sometimes twelve and sometimes thirteen.
blue moon, see blue moon in the vocabulary.
many moons, a long time.
1913 webster
see also:
mete menses monday month lunar month half-moon
moon blindness moon dial moon face moon madness moon month
moon trefoil medicago arborea medic moon year blue moon
many moons
- [2] : WordNet (r) 2.0
moon trefoil
n : evergreen shrub of southern european highlands having downy
foliage and a succession of yellow flowers throughout the
summer followed by curious snail-shaped pods syn: medicago
arborea
see also:
medicago arborea
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Moon, definition of term: Moon
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Harvest Moon, definition of term: Harvest Moon
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Full Moon, definition of term: Full Moon
full+moon_pag1.html Blue Moon
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Blue Moon, definition of term: Blue Moon
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