queen of the may

the girl chosen queen of a May Day festival ;

queen of the night

tropical American climbing cactus having triangular branches; often cultivated for its large showy night-blooming flowers followed by yellow red-streaked fruits ;

queen post

vertical tie post in a roof truss ;

queen regent

a queen who serves as ruler when the king cannot ;

queen regnant

a female sovereign ruler ;

queen triggerfish

tropical Atlantic fish ;

queen victoria

queen of Great Britain and Ireland and empress of India from 1837 to 1901; the last Hanoverian ruler of England (1819-1901) ;

queenfish

silvery and bluish drumfish of shallow California coastal waters ;

queens

a borough of New York City ;

queensboro bridge

a cantilever bridge across the East River between Manhattan and Queens ;

queensland

a state in northeastern Australia ;

queensland bottletree

large tree of Queensland having cream-colored flowers blotched with red inside; sometimes placed in genus Sterculia ;

queensland grass-cloth plant

Australian plant of genus Pipturus whose fiber is used in making cloth ;

queensland hemp

herb widely distributed in tropics and subtropics used for forage and medicinally as a demulcent and having a fine soft bast stronger than jute; sometimes an aggressive weed ;

queensland kauri

Australian timber tree resembling the kauri but having wood much lighter in weight and softer ;

queensland nut

bushy tree with pink to purple flowers ;

queer

offensive terms for an openly homosexual man ;

queer bird

someone regarded as eccentric or crazy and standing out from a group ;

queer duck

someone regarded as eccentric or crazy and standing out from a group ;

queerness

a sexual attraction to (or sexual relations with) persons of the same sex ; a strange attitude or habit ;

quelling

forceful prevention; putting down by power or authority; "the suppression of heresy"; "the quelling of the rebellion"; "the stifling of all dissent" ;

quellung

the swelling of the capsule surrounding a microorganism after reaction with an antibody; the basis of certain tests for identifying microorganisms; "pneumococcus quellung" ;

quellung reaction

the swelling of the capsule surrounding a microorganism after reaction with an antibody; the basis of certain tests for identifying microorganisms; "pneumococcus quellung" ;

quenched steel

steel that has been hardened by immersing it in water or oil to cool it ;

quenching

the act of extinguishing; causing to stop burning; "the extinction of the lights" ;

quentin jerome tarantino

United States filmmaker (born in 1963) ;

quentin tarantino

United States filmmaker (born in 1963) ;

quercitron

medium to large deciduous timber tree of the eastern United States and southeastern Canada having dark outer bark and yellow inner bark used for tanning; broad five-lobed leaves are bristle-tipped ; a yellow dye made from the bark of the quercitron oak tree ;

quercitron oak

medium to large deciduous timber tree of the eastern United States and southeastern Canada having dark outer bark and yellow inner bark used for tanning; broad five-lobed leaves are bristle-tipped ;

quercus

oaks ;

quercus agrifolia

highly variable often shrubby evergreen oak of coastal zone of western North America having small thick usually spiny-toothed dark-green leaves ;

quercus alba

large slow-growing deciduous tree of the eastern United States having stout spreading branches and leaves with usually 7 rounded lobes; yields strong and durable hard wood ;

quercus arizonica

semi-evergreen shrub or small tree of Arizona and New Mexico having acorns with hemispherical cups ;

quercus bicolor

large deciduous oak of the eastern United States with a flaky bark and leaves that have fewer lobes than other white oaks; yields heavy strong wood used in construction; thrives in wet soil ;

quercus borealis

large symmetrical deciduous tree with rounded crown widely distributed in eastern North America; has large leaves with triangular spiny tipped lobes and coarse-grained wood less durable than that of white oaks ;

quercus cerris

large deciduous tree of central and southern Europe and Asia Minor having lanceolate leaves with spiked lobes ;

quercus chrysolepis

medium-sized evergreen of southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico with oblong leathery often spiny-edged leaves ;

quercus coccinea

medium-large deciduous tree with a thick trunk found in the eastern United States and southern Canada and having close-grained wood and deeply seven-lobed leaves turning scarlet in autumn ;

quercus ellipsoidalis

small to medium deciduous oak of east central North America; leaves have sharply pointed lobes ;

quercus falcata

large round-topped deciduous tree with spreading branches having narrow falcate leaves with deeply sinuate lobes and wood similar to that of northern red oaks; New Jersey to Illinois and southward ;