| pufferfish | | |
| n. (food) | 1. blowfish, puffer, pufferfish, sea squab | delicacy that is highly dangerous because of a potent nerve poison in ovaries and liver. |
| ~ globefish, blowfish, puffer, pufferfish | any of numerous marine fishes whose elongated spiny body can inflate itself with water or air to form a globe; several species contain a potent nerve poison; closely related to spiny puffers. |
| ~ saltwater fish | flesh of fish from the sea used as food. |
| ~ fugu | a blowfish highly prized as a delicacy in Japan but highly dangerous because the skin and organs are poisonous. |
| ~ tetrodotoxin | a powerful neurotoxin found in the ovaries of pufferfish. |
| n. (animal) | 2. blowfish, globefish, puffer, pufferfish | any of numerous marine fishes whose elongated spiny body can inflate itself with water or air to form a globe; several species contain a potent nerve poison; closely related to spiny puffers. |
| ~ plectognath, plectognath fish | tropical marine fishes having the teeth fused into a beak and thick skin covered with bony plates or spines. |
| ~ family tetraodontidae, tetraodontidae | puffers. |
| ~ blowfish, puffer, pufferfish, sea squab | delicacy that is highly dangerous because of a potent nerve poison in ovaries and liver. |
| hive | | |
| n. (group) | 1. hive | a teeming multitude. |
| ~ concourse, throng, multitude | a large gathering of people. |
| n. (artifact) | 2. beehive, hive | a man-made receptacle that houses a swarm of bees. |
| ~ apiary, bee house | a shed containing a number of beehives. |
| ~ receptacle | a container that is used to put or keep things in. |
| ~ skep | a domed beehive made of twisted straw. |
| n. (object) | 3. beehive, hive | a structure that provides a natural habitation for bees; as in a hollow tree. |
| ~ honeycomb | a structure of small hexagonal cells constructed from beeswax by bees and used to store honey and larvae. |
| ~ nest | a structure in which animals lay eggs or give birth to their young. |
| v. (possession) | 4. hive | store, like bees.; "bees hive honey and pollen"; "He hived lots of information" |
| ~ hive away, lay in, salt away, stack away, stash away, store, put in | keep or lay aside for future use.; "store grain for the winter"; "The bear stores fat for the period of hibernation when he doesn't eat" |
| v. (motion) | 5. hive | move together in a hive or as if in a hive.; "The bee swarms are hiving" |
| ~ foregather, forgather, assemble, gather, meet | collect in one place.; "We assembled in the church basement"; "Let's gather in the dining room" |
| v. (contact) | 6. hive | gather into a hive.; "The beekeeper hived the swarm" |
| ~ gather, pull together, collect, garner | assemble or get together.; "gather some stones"; "pull your thoughts together" |
| rock | | |
| n. (object) | 1. rock, stone | a lump or mass of hard consolidated mineral matter.; "he threw a rock at me" |
| ~ natural object | an object occurring naturally; not made by man. |
| ~ achondrite | a stony meteor lacking chondrules. |
| ~ bedrock | solid unweathered rock lying beneath surface deposits of soil. |
| ~ boulder, bowlder | a large smooth mass of rock detached from its place of origin. |
| ~ calculus, concretion | a hard lump produced by the concretion of mineral salts; found in hollow organs or ducts of the body.; "renal calculi can be very painful" |
| ~ chondrite | a rock of meteoric origin containing chondrules. |
| ~ clastic rock | (geology) a rock composed of broken pieces of older rocks. |
| ~ crystallization, crystal | a rock formed by the solidification of a substance; has regularly repeating internal structure; external plane faces. |
| ~ intrusion | rock produced by an intrusive process. |
| ~ outcrop, outcropping, rock outcrop | the part of a rock formation that appears above the surface of the surrounding land. |
| ~ pebble | a small smooth rounded rock. |
| ~ petrifaction | a rock created by petrifaction; an organic object infiltrated with mineral matter and preserved in its original form. |
| ~ sill | (geology) a flat (usually horizontal) mass of igneous rock between two layers of older sedimentary rock. |
| ~ stepping stone | a stone in a marsh or shallow water that can be stepped on in crossing. |
| ~ tor | a prominent rock or pile of rocks on a hill. |
| ~ wall rock | a rock immediately adjacent to a vein or fault. |
| ~ whinstone, whin | any of various hard colored rocks (especially rocks consisting of chert or basalt). |
| ~ xenolith | (geology) a piece of rock of different origin from the igneous rock in which it is embedded. |
| n. (substance) | 2. rock, stone | material consisting of the aggregate of minerals like those making up the Earth's crust.; "that mountain is solid rock"; "stone is abundant in New England and there are many quarries" |
| ~ material, stuff | the tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object.; "coal is a hard black material"; "wheat is the stuff they use to make bread" |
| ~ mineral | solid homogeneous inorganic substances occurring in nature having a definite chemical composition. |
| ~ quartzite | hard metamorphic rock consisting essentially of interlocking quartz crystals. |
| ~ road metal | broken rock used for repairing or making roads. |
| ~ sedimentary rock | rock formed from consolidated clay sediments. |
| ~ sial | the granitelike rocks that form the outermost layer of the earth's crust; rich in silicon and aluminum. |
| ~ sima | rock that form the continuous lower layer of the earth's crust; rich in silicon and magnesium. |
| ~ metamorphic rock | rock altered by pressure and heat. |
| ~ crushed rock, gravel | rock fragments and pebbles. |
| ~ caliche | nitrate-bearing rock or gravel of the sodium nitrate deposits of Chile and Peru. |
| ~ shingling | (geology) sediment in which flat pebbles are uniformly tilted in the same direction. |
| ~ pumice, pumice stone | a light glass formed on the surface of some lavas; used as an abrasive. |
| ~ aphanite | fine-grained homogeneous rock (such as basalt) containing minerals undetectable by the naked eye. |
| ~ claystone | fine-grained rock consisting of compacted clay particles. |
| ~ dolomite | a kind of sedimentary rock resembling marble or limestone but rich in magnesium carbonate. |
| ~ emery rock, emery stone | a mixture of emery dust and a binder; can be molded into grindstones. |
| ~ conglomerate, pudding stone | a composite rock made up of particles of varying size. |
| ~ fieldstone | stone that occurs naturally in fields; often used as building material. |
| ~ greisen | a granitic rock composed of quartz and mica. |
| ~ calc-tufa, tufa | a soft porous rock consisting of calcium carbonate deposited from springs rich in lime. |
| ~ magma | molten rock in the earth's crust. |
| ~ igneous rock | rock formed by the solidification of molten magma. |
| ~ limestone | a sedimentary rock consisting mainly of calcium that was deposited by the remains of marine animals. |
| ~ marble | a hard crystalline metamorphic rock that takes a high polish; used for sculpture and as building material. |
| ~ matrix | (geology) amass of fine-grained rock in which fossils, crystals, or gems are embedded. |
| n. (person) | 3. john rock, rock | United States gynecologist and devout Catholic who conducted the first clinical trials of the oral contraceptive pill (1890-1984). |
| ~ gynaecologist, gynecologist, woman's doctor | a specialist in gynecology. |
| n. (person) | 4. rock | (figurative) someone who is strong and stable and dependable.; "he was her rock during the crisis"; "Thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church" |
| ~ good person | a person who is good to other people. |
| n. (food) | 5. rock, rock candy | hard bright-colored stick candy (typically flavored with peppermint). |
| ~ candy, confect | a rich sweet made of flavored sugar and often combined with fruit or nuts. |
| n. (communication) | 6. rock, rock 'n' roll, rock and roll, rock music, rock'n'roll, rock-and-roll | a genre of popular music originating in the 1950s; a blend of black rhythm-and-blues with white country-and-western.; "rock is a generic term for the range of styles that evolved out of rock'n'roll." |
| ~ popular music, popular music genre | any genre of music having wide appeal (but usually only for a short time). |
| ~ heavy metal music, heavy metal | loud and harsh sounding rock music with a strong beat; lyrics usually involve violent or fantastic imagery. |
| ~ art rock, progressive rock | a style of rock music that emerged in the 1970s; associated with attempts to combine rock with jazz and other forms; intended for listening and not dancing. |
| ~ acid rock, psychedelic rock | a musical style that emerged in the 1960s; rock music inspired by or related to drug-induced experience. |
| ~ punk rock, punk | rock music with deliberately offensive lyrics expressing anger and social alienation; in part a reaction against progressive rock. |
| ~ backbeat | a loud steady beat. |
| ~ backbeat | a loud steady beat. |
| n. (act) | 7. careen, rock, sway, tilt | pitching dangerously to one side. |
| ~ pitching, lurch, pitch | abrupt up-and-down motion (as caused by a ship or other conveyance).; "the pitching and tossing was quite exciting" |
| v. (motion) | 8. rock, shake, sway | move back and forth or sideways.; "the ship was rocking"; "the tall building swayed"; "She rocked back and forth on her feet" |
| ~ roll | move, rock, or sway from side to side.; "The ship rolled on the heavy seas" |
| ~ rock, sway | cause to move back and forth.; "rock the cradle"; "rock the baby"; "the wind swayed the trees gently" |
| ~ nutate | rock, sway, or nod; usually involuntarily. |
| ~ swag | sway heavily or unsteadily. |
| ~ move back and forth | move in one direction and then into the opposite direction. |
| ~ totter | move without being stable, as if threatening to fall.; "The drunk man tottered over to our table" |
| v. (motion) | 9. rock, sway | cause to move back and forth.; "rock the cradle"; "rock the baby"; "the wind swayed the trees gently" |
| ~ move, displace | cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense.; "Move those boxes into the corner, please"; "I'm moving my money to another bank"; "The director moved more responsibilities onto his new assistant" |
| ~ rock, sway, shake | move back and forth or sideways.; "the ship was rocking"; "the tall building swayed"; "She rocked back and forth on her feet" |
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