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Princeton University - WordNet - a lexical database for the English language Category: General Date & country: 27/01/2008, USA Words: 85192

yellowfin
yellowfin tuna noun may reach 400 pounds; worldwide in tropics

yellowfin croaker
surffish 2 surf fish 2 Umbrina roncador noun a fish of the Pacific coast of North America

yellowfin mojarra
Gerres cinereus noun popular panfish from Bermuda and Gulf of Mexico to Brazil

yellowhammer
Emberiza citrinella noun European bunting the male being bright yellow

yellowish brown
raw sienna noun a medium to dark tan color

yellowish pink
apricot noun a shade of pink tinged with yellow

Yellowknife
noun a town in the Northwest Territories in northern Canada on the Great Slave Lake

yellowlegs
noun either of two North American shorebird with yellow legs

Yellowstone
Yellowstone River noun a tributary of the Missouri River that flows through the Yellowstone National Park

yellowtail
Ocyurus chrysurus noun superior food fish of the tropical Atlantic and Caribbean with broad yellow stripe along the sides and on the tail

yellowtail flounder
Limanda ferruginea noun American flounder having a yellowish tail

yellowtail snapper
Ocyurus chrysurus noun superior food fish of the tropical Atlantic and Caribbean with broad yellow stripe along the sides and on the tail

yellowthroat
noun small olive-colored American warblers with yellow breast and throat

yellowwood
yellowwood tree noun any of various trees having yellowish wood or yielding a yellow extract

Yemen
Republic of Yemen noun a republic on the southwestern shores of the Arabian Peninsula on the Indian Ocean; formed in 1990

Yemeni
adjective of or relating to or characteristic of Yemen or its inhabitants; `Yemeni mountains`

Yemeni fils
noun 100 Yemeni fils are worth one Yemeni rial

Yemeni monetary unit
noun monetary unit in Yemen

Yemeni rial
rial noun the basic unit of money in Yemen; equal to 100 fils

yen
noun the basic unit of money in Japan; equal to 100 sen

yen
pine verb have a desire for something or someone who is not present; `She ached for a cigarette`; `I am pining for my lover`

Yenisei
Yenisei River noun a Russian river in Siberia; rises in mountains near the Mongolian border and flows generally northward into the Kara Sea

Yeniseian
noun a member of one of the groups living in the Yenisei river valley in western Siberia

yenta
noun (Yiddish) a woman gossip unable to keep a secret; a woman who spreads rumors and scandal

yeoman
noun in former times was free and cultivated his own land

yeoman
beefeater noun officer in the (ceremonial) bodyguard of the British monarch

yeoman of the guard
beefeater noun officer in the (ceremonial) bodyguard of the British monarch

yeomanry
noun class of small freeholders who cultivated their own land

yerba buena
Micromeria chamissonis noun trailing perennial evergreen herb of northwestern United States with small white flowers; used medicinally

yerba mansa
Anemopsis californica noun stoloniferous herb of southwestern United States and Mexico having a pungent rootstock and small spicate flowers with white bracts suggesting an anemone

yerba santa
Eriodictyon californicum noun viscid evergreen shrub of western United States with white to deep lilac flowers; the sticky aromatic leaves are used in treating bronchial and pulmonary illnesses

Yerevan
Jerevan noun capital of Armenia

Yerkes
Robert M. Yerkes noun United States psychologist who studied the intelligence of primates (1876-1956)

Yersin
Alexandre Yersin noun French bacteriologist born in Switzerland; was a student of Pasteur; discovered the plague bacillus (1863-1943)

Yersinia pestis
noun a bacillus bacterium that causes the plague; aerosolized bacteria can be used as a bioweapon

Yerupaja
noun a mountain peak in the Andes in Peru (21,709 feet high)

yes
noun an affirmative; `I was hoping for a yes`

yes-no question
noun a question that can be answered by yes or no

yeshiva
yeshivah noun an academy for the advanced study of Jewish texts (primarily the Talmud)

yesterday
adverb on the day preceding today; `yesterday the weather was beautiful`

yet
adverb to a greater degree or extent; used with comparisons; `looked sick and felt even worse`; `an even (or still) more interesting problem`; `still another problem must be solved`; `a yet sadder tale`

yew
noun any of numerous evergreen trees or shrubs having red cup-shaped berries and flattened needlelike leaves

Yggdrasil
Ygdrasil noun (Norse mythology) a huge ash tree whose roots and branches hold the earth and heaven and hell together

Yiddish
noun a dialect of High German including some Hebrew and other words; spoken in Europe as a vernacular by many Jews; written in the Hebrew script

yield
fruit noun an amount of a product

yield
verb be the cause or source of; `He gave me a lot of trouble`; `Our meeting afforded much interesting information`

yielding
adjective tending to give in or surrender or agree; `too yielding to make a stand against any encroachments`- V.I.Parrington

yin
noun the dark negative feminine principle in Chinese dualistic cosmology; `the interaction of yin and yang maintains the harmony of the universe`

yip
yelp noun a sharp high-pitched cry (especially by a dog)

yips
noun nervous tension that causes an athlete to fail (especially causes golfers to miss short putts); `to avoid the yips he changed his style of putting`

ylem
noun (cosmology) the original matter that (according to the big bang theory) existed before the formation of the chemical elements

Ymir
noun (Norse mythology) the primeval giant slain by Odin and his brothers and from whose body they created the world: the sea from his blood; the earth from his flesh; the mountains from his bones; the sky from his skull

yo-yo
noun a toy consisting of a spool that is reeled up and down on a string by motions of the hand

yodel
noun a songlike cry in which the voice fluctuates rapidly between the normal voice and falsetto

yodeling
noun singing by changing back and forth between the chest voice and a falsetto

yodeller
noun a singer who changes register rapidly (popular is Swiss folk songs)

yodh
noun the 10th letter of the Hebrew alphabet

yoga
noun a system of exercises practiced as part of the Hindu discipline to promote control of the body and mind

Yogacara
noun one of the main traditions of Mahayana Buddhism; holds that the mind is real but that objects are just ideas or states of consciousness

yogi
noun one who practices yoga and has achieved a high level of spiritual insight

yogistic
yogic adjective of or relating to yoga; `yogic exercises`

yogurt
yoghurt noun a custard-like food made from curdled milk

yoke
noun stable gear that joins two draft animals at the neck so they can work together as a team

yokel
rube noun not very intelligent or interested in culture

yokel-like
adjective stupid and ignorant like proverbial rural inhabitants; `the boy`s empty yokel-like expression`

Yokohama
noun port city on southeastern Honshu in central Japan

Yokuts
noun a member of the North American Indian people of the San Joaquin Valley

yolk
vitellus noun nutritive material of an ovum stored for the nutrition of an embryo (especially the yellow mass of a bird or reptile egg)

yolk sac
umbilical vesicle noun membranous structure that functions as the circulatory system in mammal embryos until the heart becomes functional

Yom Kippur
Day of Atonement noun (Judaism) a solemn and major fast day on the Jewish calendar; 10th of Tishri; its observance is one of the requirements of the Mosaic law

Yom Kippur War
noun Egypt and Syria attacked Israel in October 1973 (on Yom Kippur); Israel counterattacked and drove the Syrians back and crossed the Suez Canal into Egypt

yonder
yon adjective distant but within sight (`yon` is dialectal); `yonder valley`; `the hills yonder`; `what is yon place?`

York
House of York noun the English royal house (a branch of the Plantagenet line) that reigned from 1461 to 1485; its emblem was a white rose

Yorkshire
noun a former large county in northern England; in 1974 it was divided into three smaller counties

Yorkshire pudding
noun light puffy bread made of a puff batter and traditionally baked in the pan with roast beef

Yorkshire terrier
noun very small breed having a long glossy coat of bluish-grey and tan

Yorktown
noun in 1781 during the American Revolution the British under Cornwallis surrendered after a siege of three weeks by American and French troops

Yorktwon
noun a village in southeastern Virginia north of Newport News

Yoruba
Aku noun a Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba in southwestern Nigeria

Yosemite
Yosemite Falls noun a series of waterfalls in Yosemite National Park in California; is reduced to a trickle for part of each year

Yosemite National Park
noun a national park in California famous for its waterfalls and rock formations

Yosemite toad
Bufo canorus noun of high Sierra Nevada meadows and forest borders

young
adjective being in its early stage; `a young industry`; `the day is still young`

Young
Danton True Young noun United States baseball player and famous pitcher (1867-1955)

young bird
noun a bird that is still young

young buck
young man noun a teenager or a young adult male

young fish
noun a fish that is young

young mammal
noun any immature mammal

young person
youth noun a young person (especially a young man or boy)

Young Turk
noun a young radical who agitates for reform

Young`s modulus
noun a coefficient of elasticity applicable to the stretching of a wire

young-begetting(a)
adjective capable of fathering offspring

younger
jr. adjective used of the younger of two persons of the same name especially used to distinguish a son from his father; `John Junior`; `John Smith, Jr.`

youngish
adjective somewhat young

youngness
noun the opposite of oldness

Youngstown
noun a city in northeast Ohio

youth
youthfulness noun the freshness and vitality characteristic of a young person

youth
noun an early period of development; `during the youth of the project`

youth culture
noun young adults (a generational unit) considered as a cultural class or subculture

youth gang
noun a gang whose members are teenagers