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wberry, an American plant (Chiogenes hispidula) with white berries and very small round leaves having the flavor of wintergreen.

A plant of various species, chiefly cruciferous. The leaves have a moderately pungent taste, and are used as a salad and antiscorbutic.

all furnace or iron cage to hold fire for charring the inside of a cask, and making the staves flexible. Knight.

or an allied subject is treated of. -- Cross sea (Naut.), a chopping sea, in which the waves run in contrary directions. -- Cross stroke, a line or stroke across something, as across the letter t. -- Cross wind, a side wind; an unfavorable wind. -- Cross wires, fine wires made to traverse the field of view in a te…

A name given to several inconspicuous plants having leaves in whorls of four, as species of Crucianella, Valantia, etc.

of the stalk a cluster of pendent bell- shaped flowers surmounted with a tuft of green leaves.

Having the leaves or petals arranged in the form of a cross; cruciform.

To contract irregularly; to show wrinkless after being crushed together; as, leaves crumple.

of a religious order, so called because its members bore the sign of the cross on their staves and habits; -- called also crossed friar and crouched friar.

A species of Cardamine (C. pratensis), or lady's smock. Its leaves are used in salads. Also, the ragged robin (Lychnis Flos- cuculi).

tle. (Zoöl.) (a) A small, black flea-beetle (Crepidodera cucumeris), which destroys the leaves of cucumber, squash, and melon vines. (b) The squash beetle. -- Cucumber tree.(a) A large ornamental or shade tree of the genus Magnolia (M. acuminata), so called from a slight resemblance of its young fruit to a small cucum…

A small composite plant with cottony or silky stem and leaves, primarily a species of Gnaphalium, but the name is now given to many plants of different genera, as Filago, Antennaria, etc.; cottonweed.

A hint or intimation. Give them [the servants] their cue to attend in two lines as he leaves the house. Swift.

To raise in waves or undulations; to ripple. Seas would be pools without the brushing air To curl the waves. Dryden.

tle (Psenocerus supernotatus). -- Currant worm (Zoöl.), an insect larva which eats the leaves or fruit of the currant. The most injurious are the currant sawfly (Nematus ventricosus), introduced from Europe, and the spanworm (Eufitchia ribearia). The fruit worms are the larva of a fly (Epochra Canadensis), and a spanw…

walking, and not to prehension; as, the limbs of the horse are cursorial. See Illust. of Aves.

Having the margins only a little curved; -- said of leaves. Henslow.

Having the ribs or the veins of the leaves curved; -- called also curvinervate and curve-veined.

Distributed in a curved line, as leaves along a stem.

A grass with leaves having edges furnished with very minute hooked prickles, which form a cutting edge; one or more species of Leersia.