| adventurer | | |
| n. (person) | 1. adventurer, venturer | a person who enjoys taking risks. |
| ~ individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul | a human being.; "there was too much for one person to do" |
| ~ argonaut | someone engaged in a dangerous but potentially rewarding adventure. |
| ~ adventuress | a woman adventurer. |
| ~ cowboy | someone who is reckless or irresponsible (especially in driving vehicles). |
| ~ daredevil, harum-scarum, madcap, swashbuckler, hothead, lunatic | a reckless impetuous irresponsible person. |
| ~ risk taker, gambler | someone who risks loss or injury in the hope of gain or excitement. |
| ~ hotspur | a rash or impetuous person. |
| ~ mercenary, soldier of fortune | a person hired to fight for another country than their own. |
| ~ mountain climber, mountaineer | someone who climbs mountains. |
| ~ plunger, speculator | someone who risks losses for the possibility of considerable gains. |
| ~ casanova, casanova de seingalt, giovanni jacopo casanova, giovanni jacopo casanova de seingalt | an Italian adventurer who wrote vivid accounts of his sexual encounters (1725-1798). |
| n. (person) | 2. adventurer, explorer | someone who travels into little known regions (especially for some scientific purpose). |
| ~ individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul | a human being.; "there was too much for one person to do" |
| ~ conquistador | an adventurer (especially one who led the Spanish conquest of Mexico and Peru in the 16th century). |
| ~ diver, frogman, underwater diver | someone who works underwater. |
| ~ navigator | in earlier times, a person who explored by ship. |
| ~ potholer, spelaeologist, speleologist, spelunker | a person who explores caves. |
| ~ amundsen, roald amundsen | Norwegian explorer who was the first to traverse the Northwest Passage and in 1911 the first to reach the South Pole (1872-1928). |
| ~ bartlett, captain bob, robert abram bartlett, robert bartlett | United States explorer who accompanied Peary's expedition to the North Pole and who led many other Arctic trips (1875-1946). |
| ~ bougainville, louis antoine de bougainville | French explorer who circumnavigated the globe accompanied by scientists (1729-1811). |
| ~ burton, richard burton, sir richard burton, sir richard francis burton | English explorer who with John Speke was the first European to explore Lake Tanganyika (1821-1890). |
| ~ admiral byrd, richard e. byrd, richard evelyn byrd, byrd | explorer and United States naval officer; led expeditions to explore Antarctica (1888-1957). |
| ~ cabot, sebastian cabot | son of John Cabot who was born in Italy and who led an English expedition in search of the Northwest Passage and a Spanish expedition that explored the La Plata region of Brazil; in 1544 he published a map of the world (1476-1557). |
| ~ champlain, samuel de champlain | French explorer in Nova Scotia who established a settlement on the site of modern Quebec (1567-1635). |
| ~ clark, william clark | United States explorer who (with Meriwether Lewis) led an expedition from St. Louis to the mouth of the Columbia River; Clark was responsible for making maps of the area (1770-1838). |
| ~ cordova, francisco fernandez cordoba, francisco fernandez de cordova, cordoba | Spanish explorer who discovered Yucatan (1475-1526). |
| ~ cousteau, jacques costeau, jacques yves costeau | French underwater explorer (born in 1910). |
| ~ flinders, matthew flinders, sir matthew flinders | British explorer who mapped the Australian coast (1774-1814). |
| ~ fremont, john c. fremont, john charles fremont | United States explorer who mapped much of the American west and Northwest (1813-1890). |
| ~ frobisher, sir martin frobisher | English explorer who led an expedition in search of the Northwest Passage to the orient; served under Drake and helped defeat the Spanish Armada (1535-1594). |
| ~ charles francis hall, hall | United States explorer who led three expeditions to the Arctic (1821-1871). |
| ~ joliet, jolliet, louis joliet, louis jolliet | French explorer (with Jacques Marquette) of the upper Mississippi River valley (1645-1700). |
| ~ lasalle, rene-robert cavelier, sieur de lasalle | French explorer who claimed Louisiana for France (1643-1687). |
| ~ meriwether lewis, lewis | United States explorer and soldier who lead led an expedition from St. Louis to the mouth of the Columbia River (1774-1809). |
| ~ david livingstone, livingstone | Scottish missionary and explorer who discovered the Zambezi River and Victoria Falls (1813-1873). |
| ~ mackenzie, sir alexander mackenzie | Canadian explorer (born in England) who explored the Mackenzie River and who was first to cross North America by land north of Mexico (1764-1820). |
| ~ fridtjof nansen, nansen | Norwegian explorer of the Arctic and director of the League of Nations relief program for refugees of World War I (1861-1930). |
| ~ mungo park, park | Scottish explorer in Africa (1771-1806). |
| ~ peary, robert e. peary, robert edwin peary, robert peary | United States Arctic explorer and United States naval officer who has been regarded as the first man to reach the North Pole (1856-1920). |
| ~ kund johan victor rasmussen, rasmussen | Danish ethnologist and Arctic explorer; led expeditions into the Arctic to find support for his theory that Eskimos and North American Indians originally migrated from Asia (1879-1933). |
| ~ james clark ross, sir james clark ross, ross | British explorer of the Arctic and Antarctic; located the north magnetic pole in 1831; discovered the Ross Sea in Antarctica; nephew of Sir John Ross (1800-1862). |
| ~ john ross, ross, sir john ross | Scottish explorer who led Arctic expeditions that yielded geographic discoveries while searching for the Northwest Passage (1777-1856). |
| ~ henry rowe schoolcraft, schoolcraft | United States geologist and ethnologist and explorer who discovered the source of the Mississippi River (1793-1864). |
| ~ robert falcon scott, robert scott, scott | English explorer who reached the South Pole just a month after Amundsen; he and his party died on the return journey (1868-1912). |
| ~ captain john smith, john smith, smith | English explorer who helped found the colony at Jamestown, Virginia; was said to have been saved by Pocahontas (1580-1631). |
| ~ john hanning speke, john speke, speke | English explorer who with Sir Richard Burton was the first European to explore Lake Tanganyika; he also discovered Lake Victoria and named it (1827-1864). |
| ~ henry m. stanley, john rowlands, sir henry morton stanley, stanley | Welsh journalist and explorer who led an expedition to Africa in search of David Livingstone and found him in Tanzania in 1871; he and Livingstone together tried to find the source of the Nile River (1841-1904). |
| ~ otto neumann sverdrup, sverdrup | Norwegian explorer who led expeditions into the Arctic (1855-1930). |
| ~ sebastian vizcaino, vizcaino | Spanish explorer who was the first European to explore the California coast (1550-1615). |
| ~ charles wilkes, wilkes | United States explorer of Antarctica (1798-1877). |
| ~ george hubert wilkins, wilkins | Australian who was the first to explore the Arctic by airplane (1888-1958). |
| flatfish | | |
| n. (food) | 1. flatfish | sweet lean whitish flesh of any of numerous thin-bodied fish; usually served as thin fillets. |
| ~ saltwater fish | flesh of fish from the sea used as food. |
| ~ flounder | flesh of any of various American and European flatfish. |
| ~ fillet of sole, sole | lean flesh of any of several flatfish. |
| ~ halibut | lean flesh of very large flatfish of Atlantic or Pacific. |
| n. (animal) | 2. flatfish | any of several families of fishes having flattened bodies that swim along the sea floor on one side of the body with both eyes on the upper side. |
| ~ acanthopterygian, spiny-finned fish | a teleost fish with fins that are supported by sharp inflexible rays. |
| ~ heterosomata, order heterosomata, order pleuronectiformes | flatfishes: halibut; sole; flounder; plaice; turbot; tonguefishes. |
| ~ flounder | any of various European and non-European marine flatfish. |
| ~ righteye flounder, righteyed flounder | flounders with both eyes on the right side of the head. |
| ~ holibut, halibut | marine food fish of the northern Atlantic or northern Pacific; the largest flatfish and one of the largest teleost fishes. |
| ~ lefteye flounder, lefteyed flounder | flatfishes with both eyes on the left side of the head. |
| ~ tongue-fish, tonguefish | left-eyed marine flatfish whose tail tapers to a point; of little commercial value. |
| ~ sole | right-eyed flatfish; many are valued as food; most common in warm seas especially European. |
| palm | | |
| n. (body) | 1. palm, thenar | the inner surface of the hand from the wrist to the base of the fingers. |
| ~ region, area | a part of an animal that has a special function or is supplied by a given artery or nerve.; "in the abdominal region" |
| ~ hand, manus, mitt, paw | the (prehensile) extremity of the superior limb.; "he had the hands of a surgeon"; "he extended his mitt" |
| ~ thenar | the fleshy area of the palm at the base of the thumb. |
| n. (quantity) | 2. palm | a linear unit based on the length or width of the human hand. |
| ~ linear measure, linear unit | a unit of measurement of length. |
| n. (plant) | 3. palm, palm tree | any plant of the family Palmae having an unbranched trunk crowned by large pinnate or palmate leaves. |
| ~ arecaceae, family arecaceae, family palmaceae, family palmae, palm family, palmaceae, palmae | chiefly tropical trees and shrubs and vines usually having a tall columnar trunk bearing a crown of very large leaves; coextensive with the order Palmales. |
| ~ sago palm | any of various tropical Asian palm trees the trunks of which yield sago. |
| ~ feather palm | palm having pinnate or featherlike leaves. |
| ~ fan palm | palm having palmate or fan-shaped leaves. |
| ~ calamus | any tropical Asian palm of the genus Calamus; light tough stems are a source of rattan canes. |
| ~ fishtail palm | attractive East Indian palm having distinctive bipinnate foliage. |
| ~ coco, coco palm, cocoa palm, coconut palm, coconut tree, cocos nucifera, coconut | tall palm tree bearing coconuts as fruits; widely planted throughout the tropics. |
| ~ corozo, corozo palm | any of several tropical American palms bearing corozo nuts. |
| ~ euterpe oleracea, cabbage palm | Brazilian palm of genus Euterpe whose leaf buds are eaten like cabbage when young. |
| ~ cabbage tree, livistona australis, cabbage palm | Australian palm with leaf buds that are edible when young. |
| ~ nipa fruticans, nipa palm | any creeping semiaquatic feather palm of the genus Nipa found in mangrove swamps and tidal estuaries; its sap is used for a liquor; leaves are used for thatch; fruit has edible seeds. |
| ~ raffia farinifera, raffia palm, raffia ruffia | a large feather palm of Africa and Madagascar having very long pinnatisect fronds yielding a strong commercially important fiber from its leafstalks. |
| ~ lady palm | any of several small palms of the genus Rhapis; cultivated as houseplants. |
| ~ royal palm, roystonea regia | tall feather palm of southern Florida and Cuba. |
| ~ roystonea oleracea, cabbage palm | West Indian palm with leaf buds that are edible when young. |
| ~ tree | a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms. |
| n. (communication) | 4. decoration, laurel wreath, medal, medallion, palm, ribbon | an award for winning a championship or commemorating some other event. |
| ~ accolade, honor, laurels, award, honour | a tangible symbol signifying approval or distinction.; "an award for bravery" |
| ~ congressional medal of honor, medal of honor | the highest U.S. military decoration awarded for bravery and valor in action `above and beyond the call of duty'. |
| ~ distinguished service medal | a United States military decoration for meritorious service in wartime duty of great responsibility. |
| ~ distinguished service cross | a United States Army decoration for extraordinary heroism against an armed enemy. |
| ~ navy cross | a United States Navy decoration for extraordinary heroism against an armed enemy. |
| ~ distinguished flying cross | a United States Air Force decoration for heroism while participating in an aerial flight. |
| ~ air medal | a United States Air Force decoration for meritorious achievement while participating in an aerial flight. |
| ~ silver star, silver star medal | a United States military decoration for gallantry in action. |
| ~ bronze star, bronze star medal | a United States military decoration awarded for meritorious service (except in aerial flight). |
| ~ order of the purple heart, purple heart | a United States military decoration awarded to any member of the armed forces who is wounded in action. |
| ~ oak leaf cluster | a United States military decoration consisting of bronze or silver oak leaves and acorns awarded to anyone who has won a given medal before. |
| ~ victoria cross | a British military decoration for gallantry. |
| ~ distinguished conduct medal | a British military decoration for distinguished conduct in the field. |
| ~ distinguished service order | a British military decoration for special service in action. |
| ~ croix de guerre | a French military decoration for gallantry. |
| ~ medaille militaire | a French military decoration. |
| v. (contact) | 5. handle, palm | touch, lift, or hold with the hands.; "Don't handle the merchandise" |
| ~ field | catch or pick up (balls) in baseball or cricket. |
| ~ touch | make physical contact with, come in contact with.; "Touch the stone for good luck"; "She never touched her husband" |
| ~ fumble | handle clumsily. |
| ~ manipulate | hold something in one's hands and move it. |
| ~ manhandle | handle roughly.; "I was manhandled by the police" |
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