| yellowseed | <botany> A kind of pepper grass (Lepidium campestre). Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| yellowshins | <zoology> See Yellolegs. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| yellowtail | <zoology> Any one of several species of marine carangoid fishes of the genus Seriola; especially, the large California species (S. Dorsalis) which sometimes weighs thirty or forty pounds, and is highly esteemed as a food fish. Synonym: cavasina, and white salmon. The mademoiselle, or silver perch. The menhaden. The runner. A California rockfish (Sebastodes flavidus). The sailor's choice (Diplodus rhomboides). Several other fishes are also locally called yellowtail. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| yellowthroat | <zoology> Any one of several species of American ground warblers of the genus Geothlypis, especially. The Maryland yellowthroat (G. Trichas), which is a very common species. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| yellowtop | <botany> A kind of grass, perhaps a species of Agrostis. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| yellowwood | <botany> The wood of any one of several different kinds of trees; also, any one of the trees themselves. Among the trees so called are the Cladrastis tinctoria, an American leguminous tree; the several species of prickly ash (Xanthoxylum); the Australian Flindersia Oxleyana, a tree related to the mahogany; certain South African species of Podocarpus, trees related to the yew; the East Indian Podocarpus latifolia; and the true satinwood (Chloroxylon Swietenia). All these Old World trees furnish valuable timber. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| yellowwort | <botany> A European yellow-flowered, gentianaceous (Chlora perfoliata). The whole plant is intensely bitter, and is sometimes used as a tonic, and also in dyeing yellow. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| yelper | An animal that yelps, or makes a yelping noise. <zoology> Specifically: The avocet; so called from its sharp, shrill cry. The tattler. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| yeman | A yeoman. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| yenite | <chemical> A silicate of iron and lime occurring in black prismatic crystals; also called ilvaite. [Spelt also jenite. Origin: After Jena, in Germany. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| yeoman | Origin: OE. Yoman, yeman, yoman; of uncertain origin; perhaps the first, syllable is akin to OFries. Ga district, region, G. Gau, OHG. Gewi, gouwi, Goth. Gawi. 1. A common man, or one of the commonly of the first or most respectable class; a freeholder; a man free born. A yeoman in England is considered as next in order to the gentry. The word is little used in the United States, unless as a title in law proceedings and instruments, designating occupation, and this only in particular States. 2. A servant; a retainer. "A yeman hadde he and servants no mo." (Chaucer) 3. A yeoman of the guard; also, a member of the yeomanry cavalry. 4. An interior officer under the boatswain, gunner, or carpenters, charged with the stowage, account, and distribution of the stores. Yeoman of the guard, one of the bodyguard of the English sovereign, consisting of the hundred yeomen, armed with partisans, and habited in the costume of the sixteenth century. They are members of the royal household. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| yeomanlike | Resembling, or suitable to, a yeoman; yeomanly. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| yeomanly | Pertaining to a yeoman; becoming or suitable to, a yeoman; yeomanlike. "Well could he dress his tackle yeomanly." (Chaucer) Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| yeomanry | 1. The position or rank of a yeoman. "His estate of yeomanry." 2. The collective body of yeomen, or freeholders. "The enfranchised yeomanry began to feel an instinct for dominion." (Bancroft) 3. The yeomanry cavalry. Yeomanry cavalry, certain bodies of volunteer cavalry liable to service in Great Britain only. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| yeorling | <zoology> The European yellow-hammer. Origin: Cf. Yellow. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |