Word Meanings - FORTY-SPOT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The Tasmanian forty-spotted diamond bird (Pardalotus quadragintus).

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• DIAMOND-SHAPED
  Shaped like a diamond or rhombus.
• TASMANIAN
  Of or pertaining to Tasmania, or Van Diemen's Land. -- n. A native or inhabitant of Tasmania; specifically , in the plural, the race of men that formerly inhabited Tasmania, but is now extinct. Tasmanain cider tree. See the Note under Eucalyptus.
• DIAMONDIZE
  To set with diamonds; to adorn; to enrich. Diamondizing of your subject. B. Jonson.
• SPOTTEDNESS
  State or quality of being spotted.
• FORTY
  Four times ten; thirtynine and one more. (more info) four + suff. -tig ten; akin to OS. fiwartig, fiartig, D. veertig, G. vierzig, Icel. fjörutiu, Sw. fyratio, Dan. fyrretyve, Goth. fidw. See
• FORTY-SPOT
  The Tasmanian forty-spotted diamond bird (Pardalotus quadragintus).
• SPOTTED
  Marked with spots; as, a spotted garment or character. "The spotted panther." Spenser. Spotted fever , a name applied to various eruptive fevers, esp. to typhus fever and cerebro-spinal meningitis. -- Spotted tree , an Australian tree ; -- so
• SPOTTER
  One who spots.
• DIAMOND ANNIVERSARY; DIAMOND JUBILEE
  One celebrated upon the completion of sixty, or, according to some, seventy-five, years from the beginning of the thing commemorated.
• DIAMOND-BACK
  The salt-marsh terrapin of the Atlantic coast (Malacoclemmys palustris).
• DIAMOND
  A pointed projection, like a four-sided pyramid, used for ornament in lines or groups. (more info) 1. A precious stone or gem excelling in brilliancy and beautiful play of prismatic colors, and remarkable for extreme hardness. Note: The diamond
• DIAMONDED
  1. Having figures like a diamond or lozenge. 2. Adorned with diamonds; diamondized. Emerson.
• SPOTTINESS
  The state or quality of being spotty.
• FORTY-NINER
  One of those who went to California in the rush for gold in 1849; an argonaut.
• DIAMOND STATE
  Delaware; -- a nickname alluding to its small size.
• SPOTTY
  Full of spots; marked with spots.
• REGENT DIAMOND
  A famous diamond of fine quality, which weighs about 137 carats and is among the state jewels of France. It is so called from the Duke of Orleans, Regent of France, to whom it was sold in 1717 by Pitt the English Governor of Madras (whence also
• EYESPOTTED; EYE-SPOTTED
  Marked with spots like eyes. Junno's bird, in her eye-spotted train. Spenser.
• UNSPOTTED
  Not spotted; free from spot or stain; especially, free from moral stain; unblemished; immaculate; as, an unspotted reputation. -- Un*spot"ted*ness, n.
• CINQUE-SPOTTED
  Five-spotted. Shak.