noun
creeping shrub of eastern North America having white bell-shaped flowers followed by spicy red berrylike fruit and shiny aromatic leaves that yield wintergreen oil
(
checkerberry, creeping wintergreen, Gaultheria procumbens, ground-berry, groundberry, mountain tea, teaberry, wintergreen )
creeping shrub of eastern North America having white bell-shaped flowers followed by spicy red berrylike fruit and shiny aromatic leaves that yield wintergreen oil
small prostrate or ascending shrub having scarlet flowers and succulent fruit resembling cranberries; sometimes placed in genus Styphelia
(
Astroloma humifusum, cranberry heath, ground-berry, groundberry, native cranberry, Styphelia humifusum )
small prostrate or ascending shrub having scarlet flowers and succulent fruit resembling cranberries; sometimes placed in genus Styphelia
adj
relating to or belonging to or resembling Neanderthal man
(
Neandertal, Neanderthal, Neanderthalian )
relating to or belonging to or resembling Neanderthal man
Neanderthal skull
Neanderthal skull
noun
extinct robust human of Middle Paleolithic in Europe and western Asia
(
Homo sapiens neanderthalensis, Neandertal, Neandertal man, Neanderthal, Neanderthal man )
extinct robust human of Middle Paleolithic in Europe and western Asia
adj
(
) ill-mannered and coarse and contemptible in behavior or appearance
(
boorish, loutish, neandertal, oafish, swinish, neanderthal )
ill-mannered and coarse and contemptible in behavior or appearance
was boorish and insensitive
was boorish and insensitive
the loutish manners of a bully
the loutish manners of a bully
her stupid oafish husband
her stupid oafish husband
aristocratic contempt for the swinish multitude
aristocratic contempt for the swinish multitude