Cerris: alternatives and connections

A kind of grass (Cynodon Dactylon) esteemed for pasture in the Southern United States. It is a native of Southern Europe, but is now w…

Sweet and then bitter or bitter and then sweet; esp. sweet with a bitter after taste; hence (Fig.), pleasant but painful.

The Quercus nigra, or barren oak.

The light spongy pulp of the fruit of the bitter cucumber (Citrullus, / Cucumis, colocynthis), an Asiatic plant allied to the watermel…

an enclosure of residences and other building (especially in the Orient)

The outer layer of the bark of the cork tree (Quercus Suber), of which stoppers for bottles and casks are made. See Cutose.

The eastern parts of the earth; the regions or countries which lie east of Europe; the orient. In this indefinite sense, the word is a…

any of various early blooming oleaceous shrubs of the genus Forsythia; native to eastern Asia and southern Europe but widely cultivate…

One of several species of similar fishes of the genus Tylosurus, of which one species (T. marinus) is common on the Atlantic coast. T.…

A species of large vulture (Gyps fulvus) found in the mountainous parts of Southern Europe, North Africa, and Asia Minor; -- called al…

Any one of several species of American food fishes, of the genus Haemulon, allied to the snappers, as, the black grunt (A. Plumieri),…

One of a vagabond race, whose tribes, coming originally from India, entered Europe in 14th or 15th centry, and are now scattered over…

A common evergreen oak, of Europe (Quercus Ilex); -- called also ilex, and holly.

The holm oak (Quercus Ilex).

widely cultivated ornamental plant native to southern Europe but naturalized elsewhere having fragrant yellow or white clustered flowe…

A small European evergreen oak (Quercus coccifera) on which the kermes insect (Coccus ilicis) feeds.

A genus of Australian gallinaceous birds including but a single species (Leipoa ocellata), about the size of a turkey. Its color is va…

A bitter principle found in the bark of the privet (Ligustrum vulgare), and extracted as a white crystalline substance with a warm, bi…