| velvet | 1. A silk fabric, having a short, close nap of erect threads. Inferior qualities are made with a silk pile on a cotton or linen back. 2. The soft and highly vascular deciduous skin which envelops and nourishes the antlers of deer during their rapid growth. Cotton velvet, an imitation of velvet, made of cotton. Velvet cork, the best kind of cork bark, supple, elastic, and not woody or porous. Velvet crab a European crab (Portunus puber). When adult the black carapace is covered with a velvety pile. Called also lady crab, and velvet fiddler. <botany> Velvet dock See Sponge. Origin: OE. Velouette, veluet, velwet; cf. OF. Velluau, LL. Velluetum, vellutum, It. Velluto, Sp. Velludo; all fr. (assumed) LL. Villutus shaggy, fr L. Villus shaggy hair; akin to vellus a fleece, and E. Wool. See Wool, and cf. Villous. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| velvet ant | A wingless mutilid wasp (family Mutilidae, order Hymenoptera) known for its venomous sting. (05 Mar 2000) |
| velvet ant stings | Common in most parts of the world including the southern and southwestern united states, velvet ants are not true ants but rather parasitic wasps. Their sting like that of other wasps, fire ants, bees, yellow jackets, and hornets -- can trigger allergic reactions varying greatly in severity. Avoidance and prompt treatment are essential. In selected cases, allergy injection therapy is highly effective. (the three a's of insect allergy are adrenaline, avoidance and allergist.) (12 Dec 1998) |
| velvetbreast | <zoology> The goosander. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| velvetleaf | <botany> A name given to several plants which have soft, velvety leaves, as the Abutilon Avicennae, the Cissampelos Pareira, and the Lavatera arborea, and even the common mullein. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| ants, velvet | Common in most parts of the world including the Southern and Southwestern U.S., velvet ants are not true ants but rather parasitic wasps. Their sting can trigger allergic reactions. Avoidance, prompt treatment and, in selected cases, allergy injection therapy are useful. (12 Dec 1998) |
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| velvet | a silky densely piled fabric with a plain back |
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| velvet | resembling velvet in having a smooth soft surface |
| velvet | smooth and soft to sight or hearing or touch or taste |
| velvet | annual semi-woody vine of Asia having long clusters of purplish flowers and densely hairy pods |
| velvet | common grass with slender stems and narrow leaves |
| velvet | common grass with slender stems and narrow leaves |
| velvet | young leaves widely used as leaf vegetables |
| velvet | tall European perennial grass having a velvety stem |
| velvet | willow with long flexible twigs used in basketry |
| velvet | Javanese foliage plant grown for their handsome velvety leaves with violet-purple hairs |
| velvet | any of various plants of the genus Verbascum having large usually woolly leaves and terminal spikes of yellow or white or purplish flowers |
| velvet | deciduous shrubby tree or eastern North America with compound leaves that turn brilliant red in fall and dense panicles of greenish yellow flowers followed by crimson acidic berries |
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